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Showing 1 to 20 of 172 for “"Rights-based"”.
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Rights-based approach to poverty reduction: The Ghanaian experience [Thesis]
… study draws on the theoretical lens of the human rights-based approach (HRBA) to poverty reduction to examine how the implementation of the LEAP programme aligns with beneficiaries’ human rights entitlements. It argues that the LEAP programme has failed to align with the HRBA and leaves unattended …
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Climate Change and Human Rights. Exploring Human Rights-Based Climate Litigation
… of climate change litigation grounded in human rights arguments. Its beginning focuses on uncovering the litigants’ incentives and legal position by studying the interconnectedness of climate change and human rights in their relevant international and regional frameworks. Following this …
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AI governance: investigating a rights-based approach to explanation in AI
… such as the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA), and various other human rights and AI governance frameworks. The findings reveal that while some …
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Overcoming religious and cultural obstacles to organ donation : a rights-based approach
… transplantation, basing its arguments in a human rights-based approach. Ways in which human rights norms may be used in the promotion of organ donation, whilst still respecting the cultural and religious beliefs of the individuals involved, are interrogated. It is concluded that religious and …
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The Power of Messaging: An Examination of a Rights-based Approach to Dementia
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Human trafficking for the purpose of organ removal : a human rights based perspective
… consider the crime in detail, from a human right-based approach. This approach acknowledges that trafficking in all its forms, is a violation of human rights and seeks to depart from the common debates surrounding the spread of organ trafficking over the years. A large proportion of these debates …
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Emerging trends in recent Human Rights-based climate change and litigation targeting government accountability
… 2019 and 2020 saw a global rise in human rights-based climate change litigation and certain new trends seem apparent in this litigation, specifically relating to holding governments accountable for their actions. Due to climate change cases being canvassed comprehensively in other …
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Water for all : an analysis of a human rights based approach to water access
… was undertaken to determine whether a human rights based approach would ensure each person's access to a water supply sufficient to meet her basic needs. A human right to water shows promise as a strategy for ensuring universal access to water if a broad, comprehensive human rights theory is …
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School expulsion in Ireland: a socio-legal rights-based analysis of expulsion law and practice
… legal reform to align expulsion practices with rights-based standards. It proposes the creation of an independent agency to oversee expulsion appeals and support families.
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Fighting HIV/AIDS insecurities using a human rights-based approach : a case study of Zimbabwe
… in Zimbabwe through a developmental and human rights based approach. In particular it focuses on second generation rights because of their emphasis on the social welfare of individuals. Second generation rights relate to the living conditions of people in society, attempting to ensure that …
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Rights-based evaluation of government responses to a given 'natural' disaster : Katrina as case study
Disaster impacts human mobility and a rights-based approach to disaster response is needed to protect the human rights of those who seek migration as an adaptation strategy. This paper deals with returning to a place after a catastrophic environmental disaster when the dynamics of that place call …
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Social enterprise as a rights-based approach to development : a comparative study of two organizations
… As such, there is potential to implement rights-based approaches which integrate human rights principles into organizational design, procedure and processes and put pressure on traditional responsibility bearers. Pure Home Water and Community Water Solutions are two social enterprises …
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A Human Rights based approach to the psychiatric treatment of mental illness among prisoners in Uganda
Reports of people with mental disorders without access to treatment are a major occurrence in prisons outside and within Africa. An estimated 450 000 000 people worldwide suffer from mental or behavioural disorders. The disproportionately high rate of mental disorders in prisons is due to several …
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Rights-Based Approach to Maternal Health: Constitutionalizing Protection of Women's Reproductive Rights in Nigeria
Maternal mortality in Nigeria is unacceptably high, accounting for 14 percent of global maternal deaths, thereby making it a global public health issue. Given that maternal mortality is essentially a women problem, it is a matter of justice and discrimination. In addition, significant regional …
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A rights-based approach to HIV prevention, care, support and treatment: a review of its implementation in Ethiopia
… global consensus on the effectiveness of using a rights-based approach as a vehicle to ensure access to HIV prevention, care, support and treatment services. Being one of the Sub-Saharan African countries hit by the epidemic, Ethiopia has adopted laws, policies and strategies that expedite its …
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Women's perceptions of human rights and rights-based approaches in everyday life: a case study from provincial Russia
… been justified through the employment of human rights discourses. However, the increased use of human rights discourses has not resulted in the increased realisation of human rights, and feminists have highlighted how the gendered nature of transitions to democracy and the market have, in fact, …
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Operationalizing rights-based approaches to development: a study of state and non-state duty-bearers in Odisha, India
This thesis examines how rights-based approaches to development are operationalised in Odisha, India, through an investigation of its practice by state and non-state actors at various levels. The thesis asks four research questions. The first asks how state political will and commitment defines, …
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The Social Implications of Rights-Based Fisheries Management in New Zealand for Some Hauraki Gulf Fishermen and their Communities
… the social implications of a neoliberal `rights-based‘, fisheries management system introduced in New Zealand on 1 October 1986 in the form of the Quota Management System (QMS) using Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs). Ongoing biological and economic monitoring has endeavoured to ensure …
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The effectiveness of approach : addressing the value of rights-based interventions to protect human rights defenders in oppressive environments
… to interventions for the protection of human rights defenders. My premise holds that mobilising human rights-based approaches to interventions for the protection of human rights defenders in countries with oppressive regimes has significant potential for altering the nature and practice of …
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