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Showing 1 to 20 of 208 for “"International human rights"”.
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The regulation of social media content personalisation: An international human rights perspective
… critically examines the extent 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 …
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Women's rights in Islam and current discourse of international human rights law
The international norm of non-discrimination on the basis of sex as reflected in the UN human rights instrument culminated in 1979 with the adoption of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. With the adoption of the Convention, the separate concepts of …
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The application of Shari’ah and international human rights law in Saudi Arabia
… of the application of Islamic law (Shari’ah) and international human rights law in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It provides an analysis of the sources of Islamic law as well as the sources of international law to set the background for analysis and defines the nature of both laws. It also tackles …
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State obligations in international human rights law on human trafficking : case study Poland
This thesis aims to investigate the compliance of international and national (EU) laws on human rights, with a specific focus on Poland, regarding the extent to which they meet the minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking. The primary research question examines whether …
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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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Reforming Hudud ordinances to reconcile Islamic criminal law with international human rights law
International human rights laws are grossly violated by the hudud ordinances, with their extremely cruel punishments, including stoning for adultery, beheading for apostasy, and amputation for theft. Pakistan, Sudan, Brunei Darussalam and Saudi Arabia, for example, follow the doctrines of the four …
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The idea of punishment in international human rights discourse: A conceptual and historical critique
The idea of punishment is typically framed in human rights and legal scholarship in terms of the principle of legality, the due process, and the prohibition of certain forms of punishment deemed cruel, inhuman and degrading. This study seeks to shift the focus towards deeper penological questions …
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Childhood statelessness in Kenya: an appraisal of legislative compliance with international human rights law obligations
… is: to what extent has Kenya complied with its international human rights law treaty obligations on the children’s right to a nationality to address childhood statelessness, and what challenges hinder its full realization of this right? Previous research does not fully address Kenya’s compliance …
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Examining Girls’ Experiences of Discriminatory Practices in Ghanaian Secondary Education against International Human Rights Standards
… abuses in schools are rarely viewed through the human rights perspective as this dimension is relatively new. The absence of systematically collected data further perpetuates the abuses (Tomaševski, 2001:43). The research examines how Ghana has complied with the human rights’ standards of …
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International human rights law and climate change: the case for a duty to mitigate climate change
… with the relationship between climate change and international human rights law. A special focus lies on the question if states have a human rights obligation to mitigate climate change by reducing greenhouse gas-emissions. To this end, the dissertation develops and proposes a risk-based approach …
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Implementation of international human rights and labour standards in Lesotho and their impact on Basotho women
… it was possible to include more current. The international community has established norms intended to guide the members of the respective conventions and treaties in making of their domestic laws. These guidelines operate as an indication of the member country's intention to abide by the …
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(Transnational) Corporations and Human Rights: an exploration into the accomodation of capital in international human rights law.
… in, if not instigators of, a variety of human rights violations. Despite this evidence, the international community of states has been unwilling or unable to respond to these violations in any adequate measure. At the same time, the discourse of human rights has become integral to state …
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Rethinking preventative detention from an international human rights perspective: a comparative study of Australia, Malaysia and Singapore
… measures adopted by these three states from an international human rights perspective. Security-based preventative detention is a permissible deprivation of liberty under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as long as it is lawful and proportionate, but any detention without …
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