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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"Political Rights"”.
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Risk and the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
… under the International 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 …
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Children's political rights: participation in legislative processes in the South African Parliament
The aim of my study was to measure the extent of children's participation in legislative processes that affect them and examine the factors that facilitate or inhibit such participation.
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Cooperative Human Rights Obligations: Operationalising Cooperation for the Effective Protection of Civil and Political Rights in Transnational Constellations
… of cooperation to effectively ensure civil and political rights operationalised in international human rights law. It has long been recognised that in light of states’ economic (inter-)dependence, international assistance and cooperation are necessary to enable states to fully realise economic, …
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Assessing gender equality in political rights: a comparative study of CEDAW Article 7 implementation in Saudi Arabia and Tunisia
… equality as a cornerstone of justice and human rights, highlighting its complexities and the challenges of achieving absolute parity in wealth and opportunities. Through a comparative analysis, the thesis examines the Islamic perspective on equality, emphasizing its historical significance and …
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Realising the effective enforcement of civil and political rights in Africa: an analysis of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.
The task of drafting the standard of human rights is largely complete, and monitoring and enforcement institutions are functioning as intended. However limited that intent may have been, research has shown that the violation of human rights, particularly civil and political rights, are prevalent in …
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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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South Africa's Developing Deterrence Regime: how the Retraction of Employment and Political Rights of Refugees and Asylum Seekers Poses a Threat to the Principle of Non-Refoulement
… seekers as well as placed a prohibition on political activity for refugees and asylum seekers. These amendments make it incredibly difficult, if not impossible, for asylum seekers to sustain themselves during their sojourn and increase the likelihood of enforced destitution. The amendments …
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Individual and collective rights in Africa and their interrelationships with economics and politics
… 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 rights …
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Essays on institutions and economic development in Kenya
… of the broader new institutional economics and political economy research: (i) the evolution of formal economic and political institutions over time (ii) the causality between political institutions and economic institutions, and that between institutions and economic development; (iii) and the …
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Under what circumstances can a democratic country take steps to legally dissolve a political party?
… maintenance of both individual and collective political rights especially those of freedom of expression and association. Recognising the intrinsic value of political parties to modern representative democracy and identifying four basic principles of democracy, this thesis will examine the …
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Assessing the efficacy of Kenya's international and national obligations in enhancing the effective political participation of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Kenya
… (including the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), Constitution of Kenya (CoK) and Persons with Disabilities Act (PDA)) that condition the political participation of persons with disabilities (PWDs)1, and to explore the extent to which, consequently, …
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Indonesia and the International Bill of Rights: role and implementation
The International Bill of Rights: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, are the very foundation of international human rights law. The paramount and legal …
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Citizenship, exclusion, and political organizations : political response to immigrant policy
… examines whether policy can foster the political incorporation and democratic participation of immigrants. The study compares immigrants' political responses to immigrant policy in Sweden and Germany. Sweden is the critical case because Sweden's immigrant policy attempts to shorten the …
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Civil Society's Role in Democratisation: An Assessment of the Central Bolivian Labour Confederation's Role in the Political Economy of post-Neoliberal Bolivia
At the time of writing Bolivia has experienced political democracy for nearly 30 uninterrupted years. During this period candidates have been voted into various levels of government through free, fair and regular elections. With each successful election it would seem that political democracy has …
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The Law and Human Rights: Is the Law a Mere Parchment Barrier to Human Rights Abuse?
… global analysis of the impact of law on human rights, analyzing the impact of twenty-three constitution provisions and an international covenant on three measures of human rights behavior, over the period of 1976-1996. Three sets of constitutional provisions are analyzed, including 1) ten …
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Socio-economic rights in Africa: a critical evaluation of legal protection mechanisms and Implementation strategies
… is an emerging broad consensus that civil and political rights on the one hand, and socio-economic rights on the other, are ingenerated and indivisible. Taken together, they embody the cardinal norms which inform modem human rights systems as expressed through the lntemational Bill of Rights as …
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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
Throughout the world human rights abuses are committed against individuals on the grounds of their sexual orientation, gender identity and expression or sex characteristics (SOGIESC). The Human Rights Committee (HRC), which is the monitoring body of the International Covenant on Civil and Political …
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¿Cuál es el alcance de las facultades del juez en lo atinente a la adquisición, producción y valoración de la prueba en el proceso penal de la provincia de Buenos Aires?
… 14.1 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights) . The prosecuting lawyer and the defendant must try to prove the facts with evidence that will support their claims by all possible and legal means. And the judge who leads the trial will decide on the sentence with freedom and …
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Foreign direct investment and neighbouring influences
… the influences of a number of economic and socio-political determinants of a host country in attracting FDI. It also includes an assessment of the influences of neighbouring countries on the host country’s FDI attractiveness. Panel data econometric tools are used in the estimation and evaluation …
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The potential impact of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on the realisation of socio-economic rights in the international arena: what can be learnt from the justiciability of socio-economic rights in South Africa?
… Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the 'Optional Protocol' or the 'OP-ICESCR') has recently been adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations. This document establishes a new complaints procedure for economic, social and cultural rights ('ESCR') within the United …
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