Fons Coomans
Biographic Data
| ID | 2155059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fons Coomans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fons |
| FAMILY NAME | Coomans |
| SIGNATURE | COOMANS F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-6734-1741 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Towards 2122 and beyond
The Cambridge Handbook of the Sustainable Development Goals and International Law
In 2015, the United Nations established seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that aimed 'to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all' by 2030. The chapters within this collection address each of these SDGs, considering how they relate to one another and international law, and what institutions could aid their implementation. Development has been a contentious topic since the decolonization period after World War II, and issue…
The Healthy Primary School of the Future
The study protocol was registered in the database ClinicalTrials.gov on 14-06-2016 with the reference number NCT02800616
The right to traditional, complementary, and alternative health care
BACKGROUND: State parties to human rights conventions and declarations are often faced with the seemingly contradictory problem of having an obligation to protect people from harmful practices while also having an obligation to enable access to culturally appropriate effective healing. As people increasingly migrate across the globe, previous distinctions between 'traditional' and 'complementary and alternative medicine' practices are being trans…
Can we talk about the right to healthcare without language? A critique of key international human rights law, drawing on the experiences of a Deaf woman in Cape Town, South Africa
A case study in Cape Town, South Africa, explores the right to health for signing Deaf patients attending health services and who are unable to communicate in a language they understand. It argues that, without language, Deaf South Africans dignity and right to health is violated, resulting in serious consequences such as incorrect diagnosis, improper treatment and standard of care not being applied. It critiques the provisions of the Convention …
On the right(s) track? United Nations (Specialized) Agencies and the Use of Human Rights Language
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 274 - 294
The Extraterritorial Scope of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Work of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Over the years, the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has indicated that the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) may have an effect beyond the borders of States Parties, meaning that states may be bound by their obligations under the treaty when acting extraterritorially. The present contribution aims at researching the use of the notion of the extraterritorial scope of the ICESCR…
Agrarian Reform as a Human Rights Issue in the Activities of United Nations Human Rights Bodies and Specialised Agencies
Agrarian reform is back on the political agenda. However, from a human rights perspective this notion is little developed. In international human rights law an individual right to land does not exist. The present article aims at establishing the link between human rights norms and agrarian reform issues, such as access to land as a productive resource. It argues that agrarian reform be characterised as a human rights obligation. The article also …
The Ogoni Case Before The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
In 2001, the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights concluded consideration of a communication under Article 55 of the African Charter on Human Rights and Peoples' Rights which dealt with alleged violations of human rights of the Ogoni people in Nigeria. 1 This communication is important and special, because, for the first time, the Commission was able to deal in a substantive and groundbreaking way with alleged violations of economic, s…
The Role of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Strengthening Implementation and Supervision of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Human Rights from Exclusion to Inclusion: Principles and Practice
Professor Theo van Boven has made his mark in the field of human rights by writing a vast number of scholarly articles, reports, studies, congress papers and the like, covering many topics. Most of his work has been published in law journals, textbooks, Festschrifts and other sources. Since not all of these publications are easily accessible, it is the purpose of this anthology to bring together a selection of his writings from 1966 to 1998. The …
Rendering Justice to the Vulnerable
Those involved in human rights, whether on a theoretical or a practical level, sometimes cannot help feeling that they are dancing on a tightrope stretched between two high trees above a deep ravine. On one side of the ravine, a jungle stretches out as far as the eye can see; a jungle which is ruled by the laws of the fittest; laws that have no regard for justice and vulnerability. On the other side of the ravine, justice has, in the course of ti…
The Ogoni Case Before The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
In 2001, the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights concluded consideration of a communication under Article 55 of the African Charter on Human Rights and Peoples' Rights which dealt with alleged violations of human rights of the Ogoni people in Nigeria. 1 This communication is important and special, because, for the first time, the Commission was able to deal in a substantive and groundbreaking way with alleged violations of economic, s…
Can we talk about the right to healthcare without language? A critique of key international human rights law, drawing on the experiences of a Deaf woman in Cape Town, South Africa
A case study in Cape Town, South Africa, explores the right to health for signing Deaf patients attending health services and who are unable to communicate in a language they understand. It argues that, without language, Deaf South Africans dignity and right to health is violated, resulting in serious consequences such as incorrect diagnosis, improper treatment and standard of care not being applied. It critiques the provisions of the Convention …
The Extraterritorial Scope of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Work of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Over the years, the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has indicated that the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) may have an effect beyond the borders of States Parties, meaning that states may be bound by their obligations under the treaty when acting extraterritorially. The present contribution aims at researching the use of the notion of the extraterritorial scope of the ICESCR…
Agrarian Reform as a Human Rights Issue in the Activities of United Nations Human Rights Bodies and Specialised Agencies
Agrarian reform is back on the political agenda. However, from a human rights perspective this notion is little developed. In international human rights law an individual right to land does not exist. The present article aims at establishing the link between human rights norms and agrarian reform issues, such as access to land as a productive resource. It argues that agrarian reform be characterised as a human rights obligation. The article also …
On the right(s) track? United Nations (Specialized) Agencies and the Use of Human Rights Language
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 274 - 294
Human Rights from Exclusion to Inclusion: Principles and Practice
Professor Theo van Boven has made his mark in the field of human rights by writing a vast number of scholarly articles, reports, studies, congress papers and the like, covering many topics. Most of his work has been published in law journals, textbooks, Festschrifts and other sources. Since not all of these publications are easily accessible, it is the purpose of this anthology to bring together a selection of his writings from 1966 to 1998. The …
Rendering Justice to the Vulnerable
Those involved in human rights, whether on a theoretical or a practical level, sometimes cannot help feeling that they are dancing on a tightrope stretched between two high trees above a deep ravine. On one side of the ravine, a jungle stretches out as far as the eye can see; a jungle which is ruled by the laws of the fittest; laws that have no regard for justice and vulnerability. On the other side of the ravine, justice has, in the course of ti…
The Role of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Strengthening Implementation and Supervision of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The Ogoni Case Before The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
In 2001, the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights concluded consideration of a communication under Article 55 of the African Charter on Human Rights and Peoples' Rights which dealt with alleged violations of human rights of the Ogoni people in Nigeria. 1 This communication is important and special, because, for the first time, the Commission was able to deal in a substantive and groundbreaking way with alleged violations of economic, s…
Agrarian Reform as a Human Rights Issue in the Activities of United Nations Human Rights Bodies and Specialised Agencies
Agrarian reform is back on the political agenda. However, from a human rights perspective this notion is little developed. In international human rights law an individual right to land does not exist. The present article aims at establishing the link between human rights norms and agrarian reform issues, such as access to land as a productive resource. It argues that agrarian reform be characterised as a human rights obligation. The article also …
The Extraterritorial Scope of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Work of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Over the years, the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has indicated that the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) may have an effect beyond the borders of States Parties, meaning that states may be bound by their obligations under the treaty when acting extraterritorially. The present contribution aims at researching the use of the notion of the extraterritorial scope of the ICESCR…
Can we talk about the right to healthcare without language? A critique of key international human rights law, drawing on the experiences of a Deaf woman in Cape Town, South Africa
A case study in Cape Town, South Africa, explores the right to health for signing Deaf patients attending health services and who are unable to communicate in a language they understand. It argues that, without language, Deaf South Africans dignity and right to health is violated, resulting in serious consequences such as incorrect diagnosis, improper treatment and standard of care not being applied. It critiques the provisions of the Convention …
On the right(s) track? United Nations (Specialized) Agencies and the Use of Human Rights Language
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 274 - 294
The right to traditional, complementary, and alternative health care
BACKGROUND: State parties to human rights conventions and declarations are often faced with the seemingly contradictory problem of having an obligation to protect people from harmful practices while also having an obligation to enable access to culturally appropriate effective healing. As people increasingly migrate across the globe, previous distinctions between 'traditional' and 'complementary and alternative medicine' practices are being trans…
The Healthy Primary School of the Future
The study protocol was registered in the database ClinicalTrials.gov on 14-06-2016 with the reference number NCT02800616
The Cambridge Handbook of the Sustainable Development Goals and International Law
In 2015, the United Nations established seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that aimed 'to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all' by 2030. The chapters within this collection address each of these SDGs, considering how they relate to one another and international law, and what institutions could aid their implementation. Development has been a contentious topic since the decolonization period after World War II, and issue…
Towards 2122 and beyond
Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Human rights (10 works) · Human Rights and Development (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · International human rights law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Cultural rights (4 works) · International Law and Human Rights (4 works) · Geography (3 works)