Ahmed Almutawa

Biographic Data

ID5794763
NAMEAhmed Almutawa
GIVEN NAMESAhmed
FAMILY NAMEAlmutawa
SIGNATUREALMUTAWA A
AFFILIATIONSSchool of Law, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
ORCID0000-0003-4320-3775
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • The prohibition of forced or compulsory labour and conditional welfare under the United Kingdom's Universal Credit Scheme

    Open AccessAhmed Almutawa, Bashayer AlmajedARTICLELegal Studies2023

    To address the issue of persistent unemployment, the UK Government implemented a conditional welfare scheme. Prompted by Mantouvalou's argument that the scheme forces people into exploitative work, this paper addresses the ‘pressing’ question of whether the scheme is compatible with the prohibition on ‘forced or compulsory labour’ under Article 4(2) of the European Convention on Human Rights. It is argued that, whether the scheme imposes the mena…

  • Towards the Human Right to Climatic Non-Interference

    Ahmed AlmutawaARTICLEAsia Pacific Journal on Human…2022

    This article aims to contribute to the academic debate on how to address international climate-induced human displacements and climate change more widely by proposing the inclusion of a new human right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( udhr ). The new right is called the right to climatic non-interference. It consists of two sub-rights, namely, the right not to be subjected to climatic interference by one’s home state and the right n…

  • Citizenship as a Privilege and the Weakness of International Law

    Open AccessAhmed Almutawa, Clive WalkerARTICLEJournal of Human Rights Practice2022References: 19

    Citizenship serves different interests. It provides security and empowerment for the citizen. For the state, control of citizenship is an attribute of sovereignty which may treat citizenship as a privilege at its behest rather than an individual right claimed in defiance of its interests. This tension is situated within a tripartite relationship also involving international law. However, international law’s insistence on a human right to citizens…

  • The Arab Court of Human Rights and the Enforcement of the Arab Charter on Human Rights

    Open AccessAhmed AlmutawaARTICLEHuman Rights Law Review2021

    Under the League of Arab States’ human rights regime, Arab countries are governed by the Arab Charter of Human Rights 2004. The Charter, however, lacks an enforcement mechanism. The Statute of the Arab Court of Human Rights 2014 aims to fill this enforcement void. This article addresses the criticism that, because it fails to provide for a direct right of individual petition, the Statute is not fit for purpose. It is argued contrarily that, withi…

  • Enforcing women’s rights under the Arab Charter on human rights 2004

    Ahmed Almutawa, Konstantinos Magliveras et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…2020

    The article begins with the presentation of evidence indicating that a number of member states of the League of the Arab States (LAS), namely, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Libya, have failed to implement women’s rights set forth in the Arab Charter on Human Rights adopted in 2004. Thereafter, it discusses the public perceptions of gender roles in LAS member states and argues that they are a principal reason for the lack of proper enforcement of the C…

  • Terrorism measures in Bahrain

    Ahmed AlmutawaARTICLEThe International Journal of…2018Cited by: 1

    As a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Bahrain is a strategically significant country in the Arabian Gulf. Against a backdrop of political instability and sectarian tension, Bahrain faces a substantial risk of terrorism. Currently this threat arises internally from extremist Shia opposition groups that seek to replace the Sunni monarchy with an Iranian-style republic. Bahrain also faces a transnational threat of terrorism from the Islamic S…