Responsability

The HRNi site has as its aim the distribution of scientific information about human rights. The authors of the site strive to publish precise and exact information, and to correct errors indicated to them.

However, HRNi assumes no responsibility for documents and information that appear on this site, especially with regard to their exhaustiveness, exactitude, or update. The articles published on the HRNi site are solely the responsibility of their authors. Only the official version of public documents (instruments, case law, reports), are authoritative.

The HRNi site includes links to web sites belonging to third parties. HRNi exercises no control over such sites and can assume no responsibility for their content or their functioning. Links to web sites belonging to third parties are included exclusively for the information of the user of the HRNi site, and do not imply any association between HRNi and the owners and operators of these sites.

Author’s Rights and Intellectual Property

The contributions published on the HRNi website remain fully the property of their authors. They warrant that the contributions that they propose to HRNi are their own intellectual property.

Any reproduction, in whole or in part, of this site or its contents, in any form, is strictly prohibited, except by the express and written consent of its author(s), or for the purposes of citation or examples with precise reference to the work cited.

According to the law of 31 August 1998, transposing into Belgian law the European Directive of 11 March 1996 concerning the legal protection of databases and according to that directive itself, the HRNi website constitutes a protected database.

According to these texts, the Free University of Brussels (Université Libre de Bruxelles, U.L.B.) is the creator of the database, that is, the person who takes the initiative and assumes the risk of the investments at its origin. ULB is the owner of the rights attached to this quality of creator and assumes the responsibilities thereof.

The project has been developed under the scientific direction of Mr. Guy Haarscher and Mr. Benoît Frydman, professors at the ULB, as well as Mr. Ludovic Hennebel, researcher at the Centre for Legal Philosophy (Centre de Philosophie du Droit) at ULB, who are the co-authors of the database insofar as that constitutes, notably by the choice and arrangement of materials, a specifically protected intellectual creation. This notice does not prejudice the author’s rights and other intellectual rights connected to the contributions published on the HRNi website.