Entries (62)

• Access to case files

• Administrative action

• Administrative court

• Administrative law

• Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA)

• Amicus curiae brief

• Civil action

• Civil law

• Command responsibility

• Communication (ICC)

• Complementarity principle

• Constitutional complaint

• Corporate criminal law

• Crimes against humanity

• Criminal complaint (Germany)

• Customary international law

• Dossier

• Due diligence

• Enforced disappearance

• European Asylum Support Office (EASO)

• European Convention on Human Rights

• European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)

• European Ombudsperson

• Freedom of Information Acts

• Gender-based violence

• Geneva Conventions

• Genocide

• German Federal Public Prosecutor

• Hard law/soft law

• Individual complaints

  An individual complaint mechanism allows individuals, groups and in some cases NGOs to seek enforcement of their rights. Various individual complaint mechanisms exist for the enforcement of rights guaranteed under international law. Individual complaints can be brought before certain regional courts, such as the European Court of Human Rights, when all domestic remedies have been exhausted.

• International Criminal Court (ICC)

• International criminal law

• International Labour Organization (ILO)

• Intertemporal principle

• Investor-state dispute settlement

• Monitoring process

• Monitoring report

• National action plan on business and human rights

• OECD complaint

• OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

• Pinochet Effect

• Postcolonial legal criticism

• Preliminary examination

• Public interest litigation

• Public international law

• Pushback

• Regional court (Germany)

• Sexual violence

• Special tribunal

• Strategic litigation

• Structural investigation

• Transitional justice

• UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

• UN Convention against Torture

• UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

• UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

• UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

• UN Special Rapporteur

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• Universal jurisdiction

• War crimes

• Whistleblower