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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Human Rights Protection"”.
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Inter-American human rights protection: how methods and rules of interpretation are framed
… cultural context used in the interpretation of human rights treaties. It involves an examination of the interpretation methods and rules of "ordinary" international treaties, which are being compared with those of the interpretation methods and rules of human rights treaties. The Inter-American …
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The use of mobile phones for human rights protection: the experiences of Zimbabwean Human Rights Non-Governmental Organisations
… Zimbabwe has experienced a long history of human rights violations stretching from the times of Rhodesia to post-coalition years. The violations have been in various forms, including the use of physical force and the constriction of political, media and electoral spaces. Human Rights NGOs, …
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A Critique of Human Rights Protection for Suspects in the Chinese Criminal Justice System: An Examination of the Extent to which There Is and Could in Future Be Compatibility between Chinese Law and Practice and International Human Rights Norms
… presents a critical analysis of the current human rights protection for suspects in the criminal justice system of China, evaluating them from the view of international human rights law and practice, in particular, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights(ICCPR) and European …
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Human Rights and Same-sex Intimacies in Malawi
… global attention as a global hotspot for human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity since the arrest of Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza for holding a wedding ceremony in 2009. The violations are a result of negative attitudes against ‘homosexuality’, and …
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The Organisation of African Unity and the promotion and protection of human rights in Africa
The adoption of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (AFCHPR) on 17 June 1981 by the O. A. U. Assembly of Heads of States and Government is, singly, the most significant act in the field of Human Rights protection in Africa. The Charter entered into force on 21 October 1986. These …
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On divergence in European human rights laws: the European Convention on Human Rights and European community law: a claim of non-divergence
The issue of divergence in human rights protection (adjudication) between the law of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and European Community/Union (EC/EU) law has been in the centre of academic attention for decades. The position that there are instances of divergence and there is a …
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The Human Rights Act 1998: A Bill of Rights for Britain?
… anniversary of the coming into force of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA), this thesis endeavours to explore the extent to which New Labour’s flagship piece of legislation can be considered a Bill of Rights for Britain. It explores the debate surrounding the characteristics of Bills of Rights …
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Individual and collective rights in Africa and their interrelationships with economics and politics
… the 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 …
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A Qualitative Review of the Recurrence of Xenophobic Violence and their Effects on South Africa's Role in International Diplomacy
… defeats the country's diplomacy in exporting human rights protection as the prerequisite for good governance that leads to peace and security to African states. The violence ruins South Africa's African renaissance and Panafricanism diplomacy, and the peacebuilding and democracy diplomacy when …
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Does Cultural Heterogeneity Lead to Lower Levels of Regime Respect for Basic Human Rights?
… heterogeneity and regimes' respect for basic human rights. The quantitative human rights literature has not yet addressed the question of whether high levels of cultural diversity are beneficial or harmful. My research addresses this gap. I address the debate between those who argue that …
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The Portrayal of Central American Migrants in North American Media: A Critical Discourse Analysis
… this thesis revealed various dehumanizing discourses that portrayed the migrant caravans negatively in media with emerging discourses as: criminals, victims, bogus queue skippers, and undeserving of human rights protection. Through the analysis of the Canada-U.S. Safe Third …
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Margins of appreciation, cultural relativity and the European Court of Human Rights
… about establishing a balance between universal human rights and particular cultures or local conditions. It examines the universality debate with reference to the "margin of appreciation" in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, in particular from the end of the Cold Wax when …
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The Nexus of Climate Change and Human Rights: An examination of how social, political, and environmental impacts of climate change jeopardize the protection of human rights in the African Sahel
… of climate-security underemphasize dimensions of human security through exclusion of HR violations linked to climate such as subjection to food/water stress, compromised health, displacement, and violent conflict. Therefore, the climate-security paradigm should be recast to pay closer attention to …
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Trips-plus Provisions in European Union Agreements: Enhanced Protection of Intellectual Property or Restriction of Human Rights?
… Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)-Plus provisions to protect intellectual property rights in the European Union (EU) international agreements. It critically discusses the extent to which the EU is seeking higher levels of intellectual property (IP) protection in the …
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Os mecanismos de efetivação da convenção internacional sobre os direitos das pessoas com deficiência no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro
… incorporated the International Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities through Decree no. 6.949 / 2009, with Constitutional Amendment status. It promotes a paradigm shift about the phenomenon of disability, presenting new premises to understand, promote and ensure rights to this …
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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)
… of systematic violation of personal integrity rights despite its evolving constitutionalism which has widely adopted rights friendly legislations has been widely publicised. Its accession to the Covenant and subsequent entrenchment of these Covenant rights was viewed as a significant step in …
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Harm reduction in the context of drug use in Malaysia, a critical analysis of its justification and its compatibility with the criminal justice approach
… with public health ethics, utilitarianism, human rights protection and the Islamic principles of ‘hajiyyat’ (needs), ‘darurah’ (necessity) and ‘al-∂arar al-ashaddyuzalu bi’l-∂arar al-akhaff’(tolerating a lesser harm to eliminate a greater one). The approach also fits in with the abstinence …
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Corporate misconduct, human rights, and the challenges of extraterritorial solutions
… two key extraterritorial techniques to bring human rights standards to bear on corporate misconduct, and does so through an analysis of the dilemmas they raise. The background to the research is the difficulty of imposing human rights standards on transnational business operating in ‘host’ …
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General reservations to multilateral conventions: a study of the reservations of the State of Qatar
… to multilateral treaties in general and to human rights instruments in particular. The research constitutes the first major study on Qatari reservations and the first comparative analysis of the topic in the Gulf region, where States share legal structures based on Sharia. The discussion on …
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Os limites da internação psiquiátrica forçada de usuários de drogas ilícitas à luz da Proteção Internacional dos Direitos Humanos
… users as a criminal policy under the approach of human rights protection and critical criminology. Initially, the works of Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman are used as a theoretical reference, in order to verify how the merger between Legal Knowledge and Medical Knowledge turns to the users of …
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