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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Amnesty International"”.
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Growing Queer: youth temporality and the ethics of group sex in contemporary Moroccan & South African literature
… or those perceived to be on the spectrum (Amnesty International, “Tanzania”). This current onslaught on LGBTIQ citizens has already seen 10 men arrested, ostensibly for participating in a same-sex wedding (Ibid). While the Tanzanian foreign ministry distanced itself from the Regional …
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The Impact of Gender on Domestic Human Rights Abuse
… separate measures: State Department Scores and Amnesty International Scores. Model number three utilized the Physical Quality of Life Index to measure levels of socio-economic rights. Statistical significance was demonstrated by the women in parliament variable in all three models.
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An analysis of the human rights abuses against minority groups and the prospects of transitional justice in post–Mugabe Zimbabwe
… of the late Robert Mugabe and his party. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, among other organizations, have documented numerous violations, including the infringement of the right to shelter, freedom of assembly, and access to justice. Minority groups, such as the Ndebele tribe, …
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Targeted Killing Technologies and U.S. Counterterrorism Policy
… combat, the same permissions should apply. The international community does not share this policy outlook. Humanitarian rights groups such as Amnesty International and the American Civil Liberties Union consider the United States' use of drones in Pakistan and Yemen to be illegal extrajudicial …
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Kuduro, rap and resistance: Politics of music and activism in ‘new’ hegemonic Angola
… global infrastructure and intellectual labour of Amnesty International. To elaborate on the transnational NGO’s role, I draw on critical human rights scholarship which consider human rights language as a global hegemonic framework engaging with injustices in a depoliticizing manner. Moving away …
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Gendered political spaces in international relations : the case of NGO use of information & communication technologies (ICTs)
… on spatial theorising in the discipline of International Relations (IR). It argues that spatial interpretation in the discipline is both gendered, through its focus on public institutions of politics, and state-centric, through a neo/Realist hegemony of ideas in its discourse. These …
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From Slave Ship to Supermax: The Prisoner Abuse Narrative in Contemporary African American Fiction
… organizations like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, this dissertation concludes that contemporary African American novelists emphasize the authorial control of abused captives and thus make apparent the rich complexities of their interior lives and the way in which the …
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‘En femme…’: a phenomenological-hermeneutic enquiry into the lived experience of crossdressing for adult male-born subjects in the United Kingdom
… with the sex you were assigned at birth (Amnesty International, 2015). This study explores the lived experience of people who engage in crossdressing and how they make sense of it. Eight participants were recruited and interviewed face-to-face and online on Zoom, using a semi-structured, …
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After the Dust Settles: Experiences of Haitian Earthquake Survivors and Implications for Psychosocial Support
… many mental health concerns began to surface (Amnesty International, 2011; Cénat & Derivois, 2014). The main purpose of this study is to understand post-earthquake psychosocial issues in the Haitian context by studying the experiences of Natives in Haiti. This study provides implications for …
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The danger of the single legal story: the effects of international human rights legalization on land issues in Africa
… critique of the constraints inherent in international human rights law, upheld as the gold standard for safeguarding the rights of rural communities in the context of resource extraction within the African landscape. The objective is to render visible the constraints imposed by …
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Teaching for Freedom: A Case in Ghana
… in all sectors of their society. In 1992 Amnesty International Norway developed a human rights education program called Teaching for Freedom (TFF). This program was implemented in 26 countries worldwide including all ten administrative regions in Ghana, West Africa. The purposes of the TFF …
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Rebels and representation : Kurdish human rights and the limits of advocacy
… day. Whereas previous studies of advocacy in International Relations have looked closely at the actions of more benign actors such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, this study is more concerned with what happens when important human rights abuses go unnoticed. In such a context, …
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La quête de la liberté chez Mongo Beti, écrivain africain
… his militancy in various organisations such as Amnesty International. It also considers censorship of his works. The second part is a study of Beti's Journal Peuples Noirs - Peuples Africains (PN-PA), a radical Journal with readership and contributors in both France and Africa. PN-PA, owing to …
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Prolonged and arbitrary arrest and detention: an access to justice dilemma for South Sudan
… PAD and analyses how it contravenes national and international law and human rights principles and standards. The thesis also highlights the social, economic and cultural impact of PAD and determines that these cumulative factors render PAD an inevitable component of the criminal justice system in …
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Er borin virðing fyrir mannréttindalögum og alþjóðlegum mannúðarrétti hjá konum í Lýðveldinu Kongó eftir samþykkt ályktunar Öryggisráðs Sameinuð þjóðanna 1325 um konur, frið og öryggi?
Markmið þessarar ritgerðar er leiða í ljós hvaða áhrif ályktun 1325 (2000) Sameinuðu þjóðanna um konur, frið og öryggi. hefur haft áhrif á beitingu mannréttindalaga og alþjóðlegra mannúðarréttar er snýr að konum í Lýðveldinu Kongó, þá helst kynferðislegu ofbeldi. Kynferðislegt ofbeldi sterklega …