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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Human rights norms"”.
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Women’s Rights And Public Confidence: The Connection Between International Human Rights Norms And Public Confidence In Women’s Organizations
Since the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1949, human rights has been a constant concern. Women, in particular, are particular objects of distress in that they still face the most inequality globally. Despite the need for better women’s rights, public confidence in women’s organizations is varied …
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A Dialogical Approach to Human Rights: Institutions, Culture and Legitimacy
… and conflict regarding the interpretation of human rights norms that threatens the legitimacy of the human rights enterprise. Such disagreements present an opportunity to probe, question and dissect beliefs to uncover inconsistencies and false assumptions and attain a deeper insight into human …
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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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A critical re-appraisal of vernacularisation in the emergence and conceptualisation of community bylaws on child marriage and other harmful practices in rural Malawi
… addresses the question: how have international human rights norms for protecting women and girls from harmful practices influenced and shaped the emergence and conceptualisation of community bylaws for addressing child marriage and other harmful practices affecting women in rural Malawi? …
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Is the European Union (EU) a normative power?: an in-depth look at its actions and policies on refugees, asylum seekers and forced migrants
… policies when tested against prevailing human rights norms and established international law on the rights of refugees, asylum seekers and the forcibly displaced. It takes an in-depth look at the initial commitment of the EU to protecting asylum seekers through its endorsement of the 1951 …
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Post-transition human rights performance in Peru, Uruguay, and South Korea
… on transitional justice and international human rights norms has been useful for explaining norm internalization for transitioning states. And yet, the literature could not account for the variations to state behavior after norms were implemented via domestic transitional justice policies …
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Redefining state sovereignty: The complexities of Humanitarian intervention and the Responsibility to Protect
… community was engulfed in a debate concerning humanitarian intervention and its effect on state sovereignty. Recent interventions in states such as East Timor, Haiti and Kosovo had sparked off concern regarding the tension between sovereignty and the recognition of human rights norms which has …
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Human rights and jus Cogens: Questioning the use of normative hierarchy theory in human rights law
… law. As such the recent trend of placing human rights norms in the catalogue of jus cogens has had a significant impact on both domestic and international law. For instance, in Barcelona Traction, Light and power Co, Ltd (Belgium v Spain), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), when …
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International Law v. Traditional Norms Community and State Response to Domestic Violence in Bangladesh and Pakistan
… investigates the implementation of international human rights norms and treaty laws regarding domestic violence in Bangladesh and Pakistan and how compliance is hindered by traditional norms, which exist within communities and at the state level. While the focus of this thesis is on Pakistan and …
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Unfortunate But Ordinary: A Study of Federal Court Approaches to Stays of Removal
… procedures, laws, and trends against established human rights norms. This study presents an overview of this final legal frontier followed by a multi-method inquiry to investigate Federal Court stays. The inquiry exposes an area of law that remains extremely limited and procedurally lacking, …
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Overcoming religious and cultural obstacles to organ donation : a rights-based approach
The transplantation of human tissue, cells and organs has saved and improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals who suffer from organ failure. Advancements in organ transplant technologies have resulted in an increased demand for viable organs for transplantation - a demand which …
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‘We've come from the gutter, we're going back to the gutter': an exploratory study of healthcare conditions in Pollsmoor prison
… failing to meet both national and international human rights norms. While it is unclear whether these conditions are uniformly prevalent across all prison units, the findings indicate systemic issues with management and healthcare service delivery. The study concludes with a strong recommendation …
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The golden rule in Islam : ethics of reciprocity in Islamic traditions.
… dialogue and the development of international human rights norms. Islam, as a world religion with over one billion followers, has an important role to play in facilitating dialogue and cooperation with other groups in the modern world. The golden rule in Islamic traditions has been explicitly …
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Assessing the Impact of International Human Rights Pressures: the Dominican Republic and China
<p>Human rights abuses occur regularly around the world, affecting millions of people each year. In the post-World War II era, a human rights movement helped create regional and international human rights regimes. This thesis tries to assess the impact of international human rights pressure on …
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Conflict of norms in European Union law and the legal reasoning of the European Court of Justice
This thesis examines the topic of conflict of norms in European Union (EU) law and the legal reasoning of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), arguing that the framework of conflict of norms provides conceptual insight into justification and the role of value choices in legal reasoning. After …
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Governing globalization in South Asia through a legal praxis of human rights, development and democracy
… of both this material poverty and poverties of human rights, democracy and development. Both critical analysis and creative response are framed within legal history, human rights jurisprudence, constitutional and administrative law, comparative law and public international law, but the author …
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A modern labyrinth: socio-legal insights on migration paths to citizenship in the UK
… theme that has driven this project is that human inequality is part of modern society’s legacy. Over generations, structures of inequality have been inherited and everyone must contend with this reality in order to strive for a better world. Migration has been a part of the human story for …
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Toward a Political Conception of Minority Rights: Reconciling Sovereignty, Human Rights and Minority Claims
… dissertation is whether one can defend the rights of homeland minorities as a progressive extension of the existing norms of human rights. This question calls for several deeper inquiries about the nature, the function and the underlying justifications for both human rights and minority …
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