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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"ICCPR"”.
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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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Evaluating The Human Rights Committee's Advancement of Norms to Protect Individuals of Diverse Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression and Sex Characteristics
… Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), can play a role in ensuring that human rights violations targeting SOGIESC diverse groups end. This can be done through the advancement of SOGIESC norms. By advancing SOGIESC norms the HRC would affirm that the rights in the ICCPR extend to …
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Risk and the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
… 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 broadly as ‘risk-based …
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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
… Covenant on Civil and Political Rights(ICCPR) and European Convention of Human Rights(ECHR). The theme that runs through the paper is whether the right to fair trial is practically and adequately available to the suspect in China according to the established international standards. The …
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Does international law proscribe coups d'état? Africa's role in the development of the proscription
… such as the UDHR, CEDAW, and ICCPR, may amount to an implicit proscription of coups d'état under international law. There is also, a right to democracy, along with a proscription of coups d'état under customary international law as reflected by state practice. African states, …
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The impact of culture on the right of women to participate in public affairs : a comparative analysis of Swazi and Buganda Kingdoms
… Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) and the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women. It also discusses the role of …
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How does the implementation of counter terrorism measures impact on human rights in Kenya and Uganda?
… possible and practical to observe art 4 of the ICCPR in the war against terrorism or should a lower threshold be established?
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The application of the Death penalty law in Zambia: What is the justification
… domesticates the second option protocol to the ICCPR to make the Right to Life justiciable in an event of a violation to human rights. The study recommends capacity building for Judges, Lawyers and Law Enforcement Officers in relation to offences that attract death Penalty. The infrastructure …
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Freedom of speech as a universal value (a comparative approach from international human rights law, the first amendment, and Islamic law)
… to freedom of speech, namely, Article 19 of the ICCPR and Article 10 of the ECHR, both based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which this study presumes to be the standard of the human right of freedom of speech. Rather, the study goes further and concludes that Islamic law, as …
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International human rights law and climate change: the case for a duty to mitigate climate change
… to established human rights under especially the ICCPR and the ICESCR, the question is discussed if a self-standing right to a healthy environment exists de lege lata. The thesis also briefly describes the issue of climate justice. On this basis, the centrepiece of the dissertation then discusses …
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A Comparative Study of Offenders’ Rights to Rehabilitation in South African and the Democratic Republic of Congo Prison Systems
… Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) as the first legally binding instrument imposing states members to brand their prisons as reformatories and social rehabilitation institutes. The analysis first, is worrisome to incarcerate offenders in the South African and DRC prison …
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International regulation of foreign intelligence liaison
… and regional applications of art 17 of the ICCPR with regard to private communications. Finally, by summarising and applying the core arguments of Chapters I and II to Chapter III, part IV recommends legal reform through a General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill 2015 (the Bill).
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Respect of the right to a fair trial in indigenous African criminal justice systems : the case of Rwanda and South Africa
… rights stipulated in article 4(2) of the ICCPR. Standards for a fair trial may stem from binding obligations that are included in human rights treaties to which a state in examination is a party, but they may also be found in documents and practices which, though not binding, can be taken …
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Underappreciated Resource or Inadequate Measure?
Article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is a legally binding and justiciable minority protection provision. It stipulates, “In those States in which ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities exist, persons belonging to such minorities shall not be denied the right, …
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Rethinking preventative detention from an international human rights perspective: a comparative study of Australia, Malaysia and Singapore
In order to prevent terrorist attacks, in 2005 Australia introduced a new division into the Criminal Code 1995 (Cth). This allows preventative detention of terrorism suspects who have not been charged with any offence and of even non-suspects, for up to 48 hours under federal law, with the …