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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"State parties"”.
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International Children’s Rights: A Comparative Study of 52 State Parties Concluding Observation Reports, Investigating, Implementation and Legal Incorporation of the UNCRC
This thesis explores children’s rights in 52 State parties. It compares implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child by using the Concluding Observations (CO) reports from the Committee on the Rights of the Child. It then investigates the higher scoring State parties, …
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Protection of state parties’ rights under the dispute settlement mechanism of the African continental free trade agreement: Lessons from the World Trade Organisation
… the AfCFTA DS Protocol ensures that an aggrieved State Party can pursue dispute resolution to a definitive conclusion without it being unfairly stalled or terminated. Two key provisions of the AfCFTA DS Protocol, the decision-making requirement for the establishment of Panels and the …
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AfCFTA: the remedy to an enduring mischief?
… mischief. The scope of AfCFTA indicates that State Parties have adopted the multidimensional approach of developmental regionalism to remedy Africa's developmental challenges. However, to fulfil the precepts of this model, State Parties will have to engage in further deliberations to expand …
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Legality of the jurisdiction of the ICC over nationals of non-states parties who commit offences within the jurisdiction of the ICC on territories of non-states parties
… Crimes and Crime of Aggression. There are 121 states-parties to the Rome Statute. This means there are many states that have not ratified the Rome Statute. The ICC would ordinarily not have jurisdiction over the nationals of these states if they committed offences within the jurisdiction of the …
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State Political Parties in American Politics: Innovation and Integration in the Party System
<p>What role do state party organizations play in twenty-first century American politics? What is the nature of the relationship between the state and national party organizations in contemporary elections? These questions frame the three studies presented in this dissertation. More specifically, I …
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The Implementation of the Rights of the Child; Transcending the Traditional Practice of Child Marriage in Niger, Yemen, and Thailand
… Convention on the Rights of the Child, charges state parties with the responsibility to protect their children. Each state has the capacity to transcend traditional practices and implement local laws that protect their children. This thesis claims that mobilization of advocacy groups is vital in …
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How feminist legal theory can help to safeguard the rights and interests of disadvantaged women and girls during crises: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and South Africa
… analyses the obligations that are placed on State parties to ensure the protection of women's equality during crises as they are contained in regional and international human rights instruments. With a particular focus on the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, the …
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Beyond the Threshold of Protection: Examining Non-Refoulement's Erosion in Contemporary Refugee Law through the EU-Turkey Agreement
… rights violations, its widespread violation by state parties raises critical questions about its continued effectiveness and the broader validity of the Convention's framework in today's global context. Through a methodological approach combining legal analysis and case studies of state …
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Monitoring occupational and environmental health as part of the right to the highest attainable standard of health
… contributor to global Burden of Diseases (BoD). State Parties (SPs) to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) are obligated to implement the Right to Health (RtH); which includes improving environmental and industrial hygiene, prevention, treatment and control …
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An analysis of States’ obligations towards climate displaced persons under the African Human Rights System
… provision in article 5(4) on the obligation of State Parties towards persons displaced by climate change. While it is clear under international human rights law that states have the obligation to respect, protect and fulfil rights, whether these obligations apply, and if so, what the nature of …
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An analysis of South Africa’s efforts to realise the right to health through vaccine access during Covid-19
… and particularly Article 12(c), which obligates State Parties to take necessary steps towards the full realisation of the right to health, including the prevention, treatment, and control of epidemic, endemic, occupational, and other diseases. The right to treatment encompasses access to …
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Devolution and party change in the Scottish and Welsh Conservative Parties, 1997-2011
… compares the adaptation to devolution of the sub-state branches of the statewide UK Conservative Party in Scotland and Wales between 1997 and 2011. It uses a comparative analytical framework derived from the literature on party change, multi-level party politics and path dependency. Both parties …
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Three essays on political economy
… the Government Accountability Office. Essay 2: State Parties and State Policies: A Double Regression Discontinuity Approach. This paper identifies the causal effect of partisan power on tax and labor policies in the context of U.S. state legislatures from 1970 to 2000. Using a two dimensional …
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Prevention and prosecution: Essential tool in the fight against corruption: A critical analysis of the Zambian case
… practices in fighting corruption which all the State Parties are required to adopt in their respective countries. These international instruments reflect the seriousness that the international community attaches to corruption. Other laws that have a bearing on the fight against corruption help …
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Rights of children in criminal proceedings : a comparative analysis on the compatibility of the Malaysian juvenile justice system with the standards of the Convention on Rights of Children (CRC)
… served as a useful guideline and benchmark to state parties in determining and assessing the rights of children in criminal proceedings. As a country that has ratified the CRC in 1995, Malaysia is duty-bound to strive towards full implementation of the requirements of the CRC. This study will …
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Monitoring places of deprivation of liberty in South Africa: Is South Africa in breach of its OPCAT obligations to establish and maintain an effective national preventative mechanism?
… places of deprivation of liberty. It requires state parties to designate and maintain a National Preventive Mechanism (NPM), mandated to, inter alia, conduct regularly and independently monitoring all places of deprivation of liberty, alongside the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT). …
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Explaining state cooperation with the international criminal courts and tribunals
… conditions are causally relevant for effective state cooperation with international criminal courts and tribunals. I answered the research question by conducting two empirical analyses.The first study places states at the centre of the analysis. The literature review identified six conditions: …
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Children in conflict with the law : is there a basis for a rights-based argument for diversion in Malaysia?
… while there are general expressions of the CRC, State parties have a level of discretion to decide on the exact nature and content of the measures for dealing with children in conflict with the law. Further given Malaysia’s reservations to a number of the CRC Articles and given the punitive …
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Extraterritorial Application of the European Convention on Human Rights : Particularly concerning Military Conflicts
… of its Convention by extending it to cover the state parties’ actions abroad. By opening the door to the application of the European Convention on Human Rights to activities of a member state beyond its territorial borders, the Court has changed its case-law practice from more restrictive to …
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ECOWAS court’s jurisdiction and the argument of sovereignty: an evaluation of an impeachment Debacle in Liberia
… from the domestic perspective. Beyond the nation state, the concept of international rule of law now adds a new layer of justice at regional and global levels. What has emerged is a system of accountability to balance individual rights against state actions. On the other hand, state parties have …
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