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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Human Rights Watch"”.
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An analysis of the human rights abuses against minority groups and the prospects of transitional justice in post–Mugabe Zimbabwe
… Zimbabwe experienced widespread and escalating human rights violations under the leadership 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, …
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An analysis of humanitarian intervention in action
This submission examines the doctrine of humanitarian intervention by focusing on the Western involvement in the violent breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the 1990s and the wars that this ignited. It draws on several publications written over the past decade including …
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From Slave Ship to Supermax: The Prisoner Abuse Narrative in Contemporary African American Fiction
… abuse stories, stories which appear in the human rights literature of advocacy 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 …
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The danger of the single legal story: the effects of international human rights legalization on land issues in Africa
… 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 international human …
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Rebels and representation : Kurdish human rights and the limits of advocacy
… attempts to ascertain the implications for human rights when rebels become the only advocates of a population targeted by mass violence. The specific focus is placed on the case of Kurdish rebel organisations from Iraq and Turkey. Lacking an ability to organise freely within either state, …
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Sexual violence against women in armed conflicts: towards a transitional justice perspective
… every woman there while their men were forced to watch. Then the women were held as the men were shot and bayoneted. Rape was being used quite deliberately as a weapon of subjection. As the women were being raped so were the Highlands. These women weren’t mothers and sisters like their own. They …
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What explains authoritarian success and failure in Central Asia? : Exploring regime stability, economic performance, and governance strategies
… reports from international organisations such as Human Rights Watch and Freedom House. Previous scholarship was also consulted. It was discovered that many different mechanisms have kept incumbents in power in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The leaders of both countries have been successful in …
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Prolonged and arbitrary arrest and detention: an access to justice dilemma for South Sudan
… factors including race, religion, the denial of human rights and dignity for the people of the south. Independence from Sudan ushered in a hope that the conflict-affected population could have a homeland of their own to live in peace and dignity. However, since independence, the achievement of …
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An analysis of the choice and use of weapons by Russia and Georgia in the 2008 South Ossetia conflict
… Section III will look at the international humanitarian laws applicable and relevant to this dissertation. In sections IV, V, and VI arguments will be raised in order to attribute violations of international humanitarian law to Georgia, while countering foreseeable arguments which could be …
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The principle of universal jurisdiction as a tool of international criminal justice: challenges for Africa
… is of great relevance to all who work for human rights. I regard the search for ways to end impunity in the cause of gross violations of human rights as an essential part of the work of my Office and an essential instrument in the struggle to defend human rights... ln my daily work as High …