Noelle Higgins
Biographic Data
| ID | 6548631 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noelle Higgins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Higgins |
| SIGNATURE | HIGGINS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Ireland, Maynooth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0735-6478 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Non-governmental organisations, the United Nations Human Rights System and access to education in Europe
This article focuses on the key international legal mechanism used by Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) – that of State reporting – to highlight the barriers that Traveller children, Roma children, migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking children, and children with special educational needs and disabilities experience in accessing education in Europe. Drawing on the vast array of documentation submitted to the various United Nations (UN) treaty b…
Enhancing Access to Digital Culture for Vulnerable Groups: The Role of Public Authorities in Breaking Down Barriers
Ireland’s cultural policy and the protection and promotion of the cultural rights of migrants
The protection and promotion of cultural rights within Irish law and policy has been historically neglected and has only recently been recognised as a policy objective in its own right with the publication of “Culture 2025. Éire Ildánach”, Ireland’s first dedicated cultural policy framework. This article seeks to critically review this policy specifically as relates to the protection and the promotion of the cultural rights of migrants in Ireland…
Songlines and Land Claims; Space and Place
Creating a space for indigenous rights: The Universal Periodic Review as a mechanism for promoting the rights of indigenous peoples
In 2006, the Human Rights Council created a new method of overseeing the implementation of universal human rights standards, including the rights of indigenous peoples, in the form of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The UPR is a peer-review mechanism which requires States to report on their human rights practices in a variety of fields every 4-5 years and encourages other States to discuss, and make recommendations on, these reports. Since t…
Discussion Interrupted: The Destruction and Protection of Cultural Property under International Law and Islamic Law - the Case of Prosecutor v. Al Mahdi
Al Mahdi was the first case before the International Criminal Court ( icc ), which focused on the destruction of cultural property, and indeed, the first case before an international criminal tribunal which had the destruction of cultural property as the sole charge against a jihadist. This case note first addresses the international legal framework on the protection of cultural property in Section 2. Section 3 then assesses the concept of hisbah…
The International Criminal Court and the Nigerian Crisis
Since its foundation in 1999 Boko Haram has carried out numerous acts of violence on the territory of Nigeria constituting gross violations of human rights. The Office of the Prosecutor ( otp ) of the International Criminal Court ( icc ) has been monitoring the violence between Boko Haram and Nigerian armed forces as part of a preliminary investigation. It has stated that the violence between Boko Haram and the armed forces has reached the level …
The Responsibility of the Netherlands for the Actions of Dutchbat: An Analysis of Nuhanović and Mustafić
In two recent decisions the Dutch Supreme Court confirmed a decision of the Court of Appeal that the acts of Dutchbat in sending three Bosnian men, who were subsequently murdered by the Bosnian-Serb armed forces, away from its compound in Srebrenica in 1995 were attributable to the State. In addition, the Court confirmed that the State acted wrongfully in expelling the men from the compound. These decisions mark the first time an individual gover…
Advancing the Rights of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples: Getting UN Attention via the Universal Periodic Review
Having been neglected by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), 1 minority rights, and even more so, the rights of indigenous peoples, have developed in quite an ad hoc and indolent manner. The rights of minorities were recognised in Article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 2 in 1966, but as yet no binding UN instrument on minorities exists. Indigenous peoples fared worse under the UN system as the…
The Use of Force, Wars of National Liberation and the Right to Self-Determination in the South Ossetian Conflict
The 2008 conflict in South Ossetia, involving both Georgian and Russian armed forces, attracted much international attention and debate. This article seeks to analyse the international legal framework regarding the use of force which should have applied to this conflict. It will first look at the history of, and circumstances surrounding, the South Ossetian conflict, and then examine the jus ad bellum regarding wars of national liberation and agg…
Discussion Interrupted: The Destruction and Protection of Cultural Property under International Law and Islamic Law - the Case of Prosecutor v. Al Mahdi
Al Mahdi was the first case before the International Criminal Court ( icc ), which focused on the destruction of cultural property, and indeed, the first case before an international criminal tribunal which had the destruction of cultural property as the sole charge against a jihadist. This case note first addresses the international legal framework on the protection of cultural property in Section 2. Section 3 then assesses the concept of hisbah…
Advancing the Rights of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples: Getting UN Attention via the Universal Periodic Review
Having been neglected by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), 1 minority rights, and even more so, the rights of indigenous peoples, have developed in quite an ad hoc and indolent manner. The rights of minorities were recognised in Article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 2 in 1966, but as yet no binding UN instrument on minorities exists. Indigenous peoples fared worse under the UN system as the…
Ireland’s cultural policy and the protection and promotion of the cultural rights of migrants
The protection and promotion of cultural rights within Irish law and policy has been historically neglected and has only recently been recognised as a policy objective in its own right with the publication of “Culture 2025. Éire Ildánach”, Ireland’s first dedicated cultural policy framework. This article seeks to critically review this policy specifically as relates to the protection and the promotion of the cultural rights of migrants in Ireland…
The Use of Force, Wars of National Liberation and the Right to Self-Determination in the South Ossetian Conflict
The 2008 conflict in South Ossetia, involving both Georgian and Russian armed forces, attracted much international attention and debate. This article seeks to analyse the international legal framework regarding the use of force which should have applied to this conflict. It will first look at the history of, and circumstances surrounding, the South Ossetian conflict, and then examine the jus ad bellum regarding wars of national liberation and agg…
The International Criminal Court and the Nigerian Crisis
Since its foundation in 1999 Boko Haram has carried out numerous acts of violence on the territory of Nigeria constituting gross violations of human rights. The Office of the Prosecutor ( otp ) of the International Criminal Court ( icc ) has been monitoring the violence between Boko Haram and Nigerian armed forces as part of a preliminary investigation. It has stated that the violence between Boko Haram and the armed forces has reached the level …
The Responsibility of the Netherlands for the Actions of Dutchbat: An Analysis of Nuhanović and Mustafić
In two recent decisions the Dutch Supreme Court confirmed a decision of the Court of Appeal that the acts of Dutchbat in sending three Bosnian men, who were subsequently murdered by the Bosnian-Serb armed forces, away from its compound in Srebrenica in 1995 were attributable to the State. In addition, the Court confirmed that the State acted wrongfully in expelling the men from the compound. These decisions mark the first time an individual gover…
Advancing the Rights of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples: Getting UN Attention via the Universal Periodic Review
Having been neglected by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), 1 minority rights, and even more so, the rights of indigenous peoples, have developed in quite an ad hoc and indolent manner. The rights of minorities were recognised in Article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 2 in 1966, but as yet no binding UN instrument on minorities exists. Indigenous peoples fared worse under the UN system as the…
Discussion Interrupted: The Destruction and Protection of Cultural Property under International Law and Islamic Law - the Case of Prosecutor v. Al Mahdi
Al Mahdi was the first case before the International Criminal Court ( icc ), which focused on the destruction of cultural property, and indeed, the first case before an international criminal tribunal which had the destruction of cultural property as the sole charge against a jihadist. This case note first addresses the international legal framework on the protection of cultural property in Section 2. Section 3 then assesses the concept of hisbah…
Creating a space for indigenous rights: The Universal Periodic Review as a mechanism for promoting the rights of indigenous peoples
In 2006, the Human Rights Council created a new method of overseeing the implementation of universal human rights standards, including the rights of indigenous peoples, in the form of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The UPR is a peer-review mechanism which requires States to report on their human rights practices in a variety of fields every 4-5 years and encourages other States to discuss, and make recommendations on, these reports. Since t…
Songlines and Land Claims; Space and Place
Ireland’s cultural policy and the protection and promotion of the cultural rights of migrants
The protection and promotion of cultural rights within Irish law and policy has been historically neglected and has only recently been recognised as a policy objective in its own right with the publication of “Culture 2025. Éire Ildánach”, Ireland’s first dedicated cultural policy framework. This article seeks to critically review this policy specifically as relates to the protection and the promotion of the cultural rights of migrants in Ireland…
Enhancing Access to Digital Culture for Vulnerable Groups: The Role of Public Authorities in Breaking Down Barriers
Non-governmental organisations, the United Nations Human Rights System and access to education in Europe
This article focuses on the key international legal mechanism used by Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) – that of State reporting – to highlight the barriers that Traveller children, Roma children, migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking children, and children with special educational needs and disabilities experience in accessing education in Europe. Drawing on the vast array of documentation submitted to the various United Nations (UN) treaty b…
Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Human rights (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Fundamental rights (3 works) · Human Rights and Development (3 works) · Indigenous (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Business (2 works)