Fundamental Rights
Fundamental rights - also known as human rights or civil rights - are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of their age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background. Examples of human rights are the prohibition of inhumane treatment, the right to freedom of expression, the right to respect for family and private life, the right to health and other economic and social rights, children's rights and the prohibition of discrimination.
All human beings are equally entitled to their human rights without discrimination. Human rights are often expressed and guaranteed by national law and national constitutions, as well as in international treaties and other sources of international law. International human rights law lays down obligations of governments to act or to refrain from certain acts, in order to protect and promote human rights and fundamental freedoms of individuals and groups.
Fundamental rights often play an important role in legal proceedings before national courts and in cases before international tribunals, such as the European Court of Human Rights, the European Court of Justice, the Human Rights Committee and the European Committee of Social Rights.
Our lawyers specialize in fundamental and human rights cases before Dutch as well as European and international tribunals.
Publicaties
- Raad van State verbiedt discriminatie van zwangere hoogleraar
- Toepassing VN-Gehandicaptenverdrag door de rechter
- Eigendomsrecht (noot bij EHRM 4 oktober 2016)
- Verschoningsrecht voor Advocaten
- Lezing Kinderrechtenprijs Corrien Ullersma 8 december 2015
- Direct application of international economic and social human rights in the Netherlands
- Eigendomsrecht (noot bij EHRM 31 mei 2016)
- Eigendomsrecht (noot bij EHRM 21 april 2016)
- Eerlijk proces (noot bij EHRM 4 juni 2015)
- Vijfentwintig Jaar IVRK en de Nederlandse Rechter
- Vijfentwintig Jaar IVRK en de Nederlandse Rechter (full text)
- Doorwerking VN Kinderrechtenverdrag
- Rechtstreekse werking VN Kinderrechtenverdrag
- Hoge Raad: geen kinderen op straat
- Kinderrechten (noot bij ECSR 23 oktober 2012)
- EVRM en Kinderrechten
- Uitzetting stoppen met kinderbeschermingsmaatregel?
- Persverklaring Advocaten voor Advocaten n.a.v. veroordeling Turkse Advocaten
- Adoption of the Third Protocol to the Geneva Conventions
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