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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Civil and Political Rights"”.
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Risk and the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
… parties under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) to refrain from exposing individuals to risk through their own conduct and to prevent or mitigate such risk exposure caused by the conduct of third parties. In this dissertation, such obligations are described …
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Cooperative Human Rights Obligations: Operationalising Cooperation for the Effective Protection of Civil and Political Rights in Transnational Constellations
… interdependence among states can be reflected and the consequent imperative of cooperation to effectively ensure civil and political rights operationalised in international human rights law. It has long been recognised that in light of states’ economic (inter-)dependence, international …
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Realising the effective enforcement of civil and political rights in Africa: an analysis of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.
The task of drafting the standard of human rights is largely complete, and monitoring and enforcement institutions are functioning as intended. However limited that intent may have been, research has shown that the violation of human rights, particularly civil and political rights, are prevalent in …
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Autocracies and the implementation of human rights treaties - the case of Cameroon and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
Cameroon is a constitutional and political autocracy that has been ruled by two presidents with enormous executive powers for 58 years. The persistence of systematic violation of personal integrity rights despite its evolving constitutionalism which has widely adopted rights friendly legislations …
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Individual and collective rights in Africa and their interrelationships with economics and politics
… relationships between various groups of human rights, and the effect of globalization and the state on human rights protection. Two hypotheses are examined in path analysis of fifty-two African counties. The first hypothesis considers the proposition that economic, social, and cultural rights …
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Indonesia and the International Bill of Rights: role and implementation
The International Bill of Rights: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, are the very foundation of international human rights law. The paramount and legal …
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Socio-economic rights in Africa: a critical evaluation of legal protection mechanisms and Implementation strategies
There is an emerging broad consensus that civil and political rights on the one hand, and socio-economic rights on the other, are ingenerated and indivisible. Taken together, they embody the cardinal norms which inform modem human rights systems as expressed through the lntemational Bill of Rights …
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The Law and Human Rights: Is the Law a Mere Parchment Barrier to Human Rights Abuse?
… global analysis of the impact of law on human rights, analyzing the impact of twenty-three constitution provisions and an international covenant on three measures of human rights behavior, over the period of 1976-1996. Three sets of constitutional provisions are analyzed, including 1) ten …
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Evaluating The Human Rights Committee's Advancement of Norms to Protect Individuals of Diverse Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression and Sex Characteristics
Throughout the world human rights abuses are committed against individuals on the grounds of their sexual orientation, gender identity and expression or sex characteristics (SOGIESC). The Human Rights Committee (HRC), which is the monitoring body of the International Covenant on Civil and Political …
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¿Cuál es el alcance de las facultades del juez en lo atinente a la adquisición, producción y valoración de la prueba en el proceso penal de la provincia de Buenos Aires?
… hearing (article 14.1 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights) . The prosecuting lawyer and the defendant must try to prove the facts with evidence that will support their claims by all possible and legal means. And the judge who leads the trial will decide on the sentence with …
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The potential impact of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on the realisation of socio-economic rights in the international arena: what can be learnt from the justiciability of socio-economic rights in South Africa?
… the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the 'Optional Protocol' or the 'OP-ICESCR') has recently been adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations. This document establishes a new complaints procedure for economic, social and cultural rights ('ESCR') within …
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Redressing Social Inequality through Transitional Justice
… the assumptions of traditional or narrow understandings of transitional justice, how these obscure the potential for transitional justice to tackle issues of economic and social rights violations, social inequality and other forms of structural violence, and the need for a broad understanding of …
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The regulation of social media content personalisation: An international human rights perspective
… to which existing international, regional, and domestic legal frameworks provide effective mechanisms for preventing social media content personalisation from violating Article 25(b) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Through a comprehensive analysis of human rights …
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Freedom of expression under apartheid
… the world, aiming at establishing disclosure and accountability for the crimes perpetrated. One way of assessing the “solidity” of these new democracies is to look at their provisions on freedom of expression, one of the most precious and fragile rights of man. The right to freedom of …
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The effectiveness of protecting children's rights in post-conflict Liberian society
… in such violence in their past in light of CRC standards. Reference will also be made to scholarly contributions on children's rights in postconflict societies, reports on and documentation of the condition of child rights in Liberia and the relevant international and regional human rights …
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Resistance through literature in Romania (1945-1989)
… is specifically concerned with the intellectual and psychological survival within the Romanian totalitarian system maintained through oppression and arbitrary exercise of power, while prohibiting any manifestation of civil and political rights. Literary production, as a form of contesting the …
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Política da cor: a Sociedade Protetora dos Desvalidos e o associativismo negro na Bahia do século XIX
Since the colonial period, both enslaved and free or freed individuals, Brazilians and Africans, have been involved in the creation of associations of religious, civil, military, and political nature. These organizations were essential in the struggle of the Black population for civil and political …
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Theorizing 'Transitional Justice'
… for criminal prosecutions following mass human rights violations and advocates of restorative justice claiming that non-prosecutorial forms of justice like truth-telling are better suited for post-conflict societies. This debate was eventually settled, at least in the field, by a belief that …
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An Investigation of the Duty of States to Prosecute International Crimes and the Question of Amnesty
… duty of States to prosecute international crimes and the question of amnesty, with a focus on Africa as a case study. The study focuses specifically on the controversial question of granting amnesty to perpetrators of international crimes. Principally, international law both customary and …
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Institutional Determinants of Human Rights Violations Across Political Regimes
… evidence on the contexts in which judicial and political institutions promote human rights. In the first chapter I argue that judicial independence is not enough for courts to protect human rights. I found the empirical evidence supports my hypothesis, both judicial independence and judicial …
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