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The protection of Indigenous women in the context of Inter-American Human Rights System
Sedláčková, Petra ; Tymofeyeva, Alla (advisor) ; Lipovský, Milan (referee)
The protection of Indigenous women in the context of Inter-American Human Rights System Abstract The aim of the thesis is to identify the means of protection of Indigenous women's rights. The author rises the subsequent questions: (i) which documents of this regional system offers protection to Indigenous women and based on what reason; (ii) what bodies operate in the Inter-American framework and Indigenous women can turn on them; (iii) what violations of rights have been addressed in the jurisprudency of the Inter-American Court of Human rights and what meaning does it have regarding to protection of Indigenous women? The first part contains the crucial documents in the topic of protection of indigenous women's rights. The author refers to the role and relation of both basic regional catalogues of human rights, American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Men and American Convention on Human Rights. She also refers to a quite recent document, American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that offers expressis verbis some protection to Indigenous women. Apart from that, other documents providing special protection to certain groups are analysed: Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women, Inter-American Convention on Forced Dissappearence...
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The Impacts of Mass Surveillance on Fundamental Human Rights
Kousal, Jakub ; Antoš, Marek (advisor) ; Kindlová, Miluše (referee)
The Impacts of Mass Surveillance on Fundamental Human Rights Abstract In this thesis I mainly deal with instruments of mass surveillance, which were recently revealed to the public by American IT specialist Edward Snowden. A considerable part is also devoted to Directive 2006/24 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, which at the time obliged Member States to adopt legislation providing for the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks. I also deal with the current form of its transposition into the Czech legal order. The purpose of this thesis is to assess if these instruments of mass surveillance meet the conditions of admissibility of measures limiting fundamental human rights, especially the right to privacy. I have understood the content of these conditions on the basis of the interpretation of relevant laws and international treaties on human rights, or their commentaries and relevant case law. This has led to the assessment of the accordance of these instruments with the principle of proportionality or the application of the proportionality test in its various forms. The concept of my thesis is therefore to be understood as a conflict of two interests, namely the...
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Conflict of right to information and privacy
Hodina, Martin ; Pítrová, Lenka (advisor) ; Svoboda, Petr (referee)
Conflict of right to information and privacy - Abstract The presented rigorous thesis concerns with the potential conflict and mutual interaction of both mentioned basic human rights based on the application of The Freedom of Information Act. The Author gained experience in this branch thanks to his work as a lawyer in the department of legislation and internal affairs of South Bohemian Regional Authority. The argumentation in this thesis combines both the point of view of the public servant of a public authority as well as the appeal authority. There is no doubt that the right to information is a necessity for any modern society or rather modern state. Right to information provides any person, not only the citizens, a great instrument to gain a general information of a wide scale hold by the public sector. This instrument is currently very efficient and ensures among other instruments a greater transparency of the public sector. The dark side of this right is the negative influence for the affected persons, those may be restricted in their rights, especially the right to privacy. This affection is especially significant in the issue of the public means recipients. The presented thesis is divided into three parts. The theoretical treatise, which is performed in the first part, could be summarized in the...
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Employee privacy protection
Karlec, Jan ; Štefko, Martin (advisor) ; Morávek, Jakub (referee)
This thesis deals with the issue of privacy in the workplace. Employees expect to have some privacy at work, even when they are using the employer's equipment. On the other hand, employers need basic information about their employees and they have the right to know that work is being done properly and efficiently. Finding the balance between the interests of both sides is quite complicated and the disputes regarding privacy infringement in the workplace are often decided by highest courts. In concrete, this thesis deals with the processing of personal data in the employment context and with the surveillance of employees. The aim of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive overview of this issue and assess the current level of protection of privacy of employees in Czech Republic. The thesis is composed of nine chapters. The first introductory part of this thesis (chapters 2 - 4) describes the fundamental human right to privacy and personal data protection in general. Chapter Two characterises the right to privacy and chapter Three gives an overview of relevant legal sources. Chapter Four presents basic terms and principles of the processing of personal data under the Act No. 101/2000 Coll., on the Protection of Personal Data. The following chapter looks at collection of personal data before the...
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Legitimacy of mass surveillance and data collection in international law
Teššer, Marek ; Lipovský, Milan (advisor) ; Tymofeyeva, Alla (referee)
AJ Over the past decade, digital technology has undergone unprecedented development. The Internet, which originally served as a mean of communication among academics, has become the main communication mechanism used throughout the world. The way people can communicate with each other is much easier now. As a result, the attention of governments and secret agencies has also been focused on cyberspace, with the aim of controlling it as much as possible. Following the Snowden revelations in 2013, the debate on the international scene regarding the feasibility of mass surveillance as a tool in the fight against terrorism began. Since the events of September 11, the powers of the secret services in the field of communication of persons have been extended. This practice has brought up some interesting and unresolved issues. Are such activities permissible at all? If so, under what conditions? This diploma thesis analyzes the legitimacy of massive electronic surveillance and data collection in international law in the context of the protection of human rights, especially the right to privacy. It focuses on electronic surveillance conducted by the American National Security Agency (NSA) and the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). Since these are foreign monitoring programs, the work...
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Protection of personality rights
Strejcová, Klára ; Thöndel, Alexandr (advisor) ; Frinta, Ondřej (referee)
The objective of this thesis is to provide an overview of general part of the protection of personality in the Czech legal system, as well as a detailed analysis of selected aspects of personal rights. The thesis focuses on protection provided by the Act Nr. 89/2012 Sb., Civil Code, and the European Convention on Human Rights. Initial chapters of the general part of the thesis deal with brief introduction to the historical background of personality rights in the Czech legal environment, as well as with the definition of personality and personality rights as such, together with a demonstrative list of values protected by the general right of personality. The subsequent chapter provides an overview of Czech and international sources of law concerning personality protection. Chapter four deals with lawful and unlawful interferences with personality rights. The final chapter of the general part outlines legal means of protection of personal rights available according to the Czech law. The special part of the thesis is dedicated to a deeper analysis of three aspects of protection of personal rights. Chapter six deals with one of the most important personal rights, the right to privacy. This chapter aims to introduce the broad concept of privacy, including case law of the European Court of Human Rights...
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Protection of personal rights in continental system and common law
Ondřejová, Eva ; Švestka, Jiří (advisor) ; Elischer, David (referee) ; Vychopeň, Martin (referee)
With the increased global infringement of personal rights, it is necessary to be aware of the protection in the different legal systems, especially Anglo-American. Even if the consequences are to be felt in the domestic legal order, the enforceability is recognized under the foreign legal order. The protection is worldwide and through the case law from the European Court of Human Rights the two legal systems - Common law and the Civil Law are penetrating the legislation and the case law in respect of the institute of the protection of personal rights. The doctorate thesis presents the complex introduction to the area of protection of personal rights in the Common law, especially in English law, Commonwealth countries and USA that has not been presented yet for the Czech legal professionals. The thesis explains theoretical concept of the Common law and its background for the purpose of explanation of differences of examined legal orders. The institute is explained on the key historical case law that led to establish the Common law principles. The thesis uses the current and topical legal cases and problems that the orders face in the 21st Century.
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Right to obtaining information on salaries and bonuses of employees in public administration bodies
Kilian, Vojtěch ; Korbel, František (advisor) ; Pítrová, Lenka (referee)
Title of the Thesis: Freedom of information rights to obtaining information on salaries and bonuses of employees in public administration bodies This thesis aims to analyse the theoretical framework of the freedom of information laws in the Czech republic, with a particular focus on obtaining information about salaries, wages, and benefits of public administration employees, and its subsequent comparison with the practice. The goal of this thesis is not only to summarise the development of jurisprudence concerning the freedom of information laws up to this day, which will be dealt with in chapter II, as well as in the relevant parts of chapter III.1 and 2 respectively, dealing with the right to privacy and information self-determination. More importantly, this thesis aims to offer a possible solution to the conflict between, on the one hand, the right to obtain relevant information pursuant to the freedom of information laws, and, on the other hand, the right to privacy and information self-determination, using the proportionality test described in chapter III.4. In doing so, this thesis offers a framework that has not yet been used in the relevant literature. Following a short summary, the thesis introduces the sources of the freedom of information laws relevant to the Czech legal system in order...
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Legal and criminalistic aspects of DNA profiling
Kožina, Jiří ; Musil, Jan (advisor) ; Konrád, Zdeněk (referee)
Legal and criminalistic aspects of DNA profiling - Summary The Thesis deals with DNA profiling, one of the most accurate methods used in recent criminal science to identify individuals. It also deals with the legal aspects of DNA profiling because it raises many important legal questions. The The- sis consists of two parts. The first part is about DNA profiling itself. The history of DNA profiling worldwide and in the Czech Republic is mentioned. The first cases solved with its contribution are described. A very important feature of DNA profiling is that it can be used not only for conviction of offenders but also for acquittal of innocent individu- als. Biological principles of DNA profiling are explained as well as possibilities of its utilization in criminal science, criminal and civil proceedings. The fact that monozy- gotic twins have identical DNA is mentioned as well as some very extraordinary occurrences such as hermaphrodites or another kind of individuals, who have two different DNA. These anomalies can cause problems with interpretation of the results. DNA databases can be used for comparison of many DNA profiles without the necessity to repeat sample analysis. This fact caused the expansion of DNA pro- filing. A special software required for DNA databases is also shortly described. The second...
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Camera systems in public spaces - ensuring safety or endangering privacy?
Tokárová, Michaela ; Kysela, Jan (advisor) ; Mlsna, Petr (referee)
of the Thesis This thesis deals with a problem of surveillance in public spaces. In the introduction it was specifies that the main aim of the thesis is to give a complex view on the topic of surveillance cameras in public areas from the constitutional law perspective. In the Czech republic, no further discussion has developer and legislatively, the issue is only regulated by the personal data protection law. And this regulation is not even complex, it only deals with CCTV kind of cameras, excluding the ones without storing the data. In the beggining of the thesis I explai right to privacy and under which conditions it can be limited. The core of the paper deals with camera systems themselves, their use, pros, cons and effecitivity. Later I describe opinions of some offices and states on the topic. Proportionality test of the constitutional court and the ECHR to balance right to privacy with the state responsibility for public safety was conducted in the last part of the thesis. The advantage of CCTV is that thez provie impression of security to the citizens. They discourage potential perpetrators and help to maitain security of individuals, property and public interests, as well as detection, prevention and conviction of criminals. It helps securing proofs for future trials. On top of that, CCTV...
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