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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"duty to protect"”.
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Sexual violence against refugee and asylum seeking women in the Dadub and Kakuma refugee camps in Kenya : challenges and prospects for securing the duty to protect
… will argue that the normative and procedural protection framework established under the international refugee law regime is inadequate to provide protection to refugee victims of sexual violence. It will also argue that the various duty bearers vis-a-vis the right to security of refugee women …
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Not in my backyard: the obligation to grant places of refuge to ships in need of assistance
… Ships which become distressed often attempt to find a 'place of refuge', being nearby port or a sheltered area within the territorial waters of a nearby coastal state. Traditionally these ships in distress had the customary law right of entry into port in order to ensure that persons on board …
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Mitigating foreign social media influence campaigns in U.S. elections
… across virtually every social media platform to manipulate the beliefs of real American voters. The goal of this manipulation was to elect then-candidate Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States. This thesis performs a deep dive analysis into the IRA's influence campaign on …
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Comadre Fulozinha e Pai do Mangue: sua influência na formação da identidade, território e territorialidade na comunidade do Porto do Capim.
… of Comadre Fulozinha and Pai do Mangue in the Porto do Capim community,beingthese myths widespread in northeastern Brazil. The aim is thus tstudy theinfluence of Comadre Fulozinha and Pai do Mangue in the construction of identity of children of the Porto do Capim community, and perception of their …
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Exiled periphery
… ecological landscapes and people converged to live in harmony. The spatial scenarios were diverse ; the lines separating one ecology from the next, one population group from the next, and urban from vast openness, was universal and apparent. It was a metropolis of extreme contrasts, its …
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Judicial Decision Making and the Duty To Warn: An Empirical Study of Case Law
Duty to warn is an important staple of psychologists’ ethics training. It is also a widely misunderstood and problematic law that does not necessarily capture the intricacies of working with high-risk or potentially violent clients in outpatient settings. While inpatient settings allow for some …
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Somos Indígena: Ethnic Politics and Land Tenure in New Mexico, 1694-1965
… shrinking Pueblo population. They paradoxically protected Pueblo land from further incursions through the Mexican era. By the American territorial period, Pueblo and Hispano land grants were exposed to similar legal, political, and economic processes that dispossessed both communities of their …
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The Constitutional Rebuilding of the South African Private Law: A Choice Between Judicial and Legislative Law-Making
… whenever the South African private law fails to meet constitutional right norms. To remedy a deficiency, two law-making options are available. The first is for the judiciary to develop or change private law principles and rules in order to provide protection for the implicated constitutional …
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John Witherspoon and the right of resistance
… the authority of magistrates acting contrary to their sovereignty: it further compelled disobedience to unjust laws and the removal of unjust officials to protect the instituted social order. The context of post-Union Scottish society provided a distinct setting for Witherspoon's introduction …
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Aliens in the nursery : assessing the awareness and attitudes of Cape Town nursery managers in regard to invasive species regulations
… Act (NEMBA), that are intended, in part, to improve controls on the horticultural industry's role in the spread of IAPs. In order to assess, and possibly enhance, the likely effectiveness of NEMBA, it is critical to build an understanding of stakeholders' awareness and attitudes towards …
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El Procedimiento Administrativo Sancionatorio en materia ambiental: Efectos de la sentencia 115-2012 para la imposición de sanciones por infracciones ambientales
… analizar de forma crítica el procedimiento administrativo sancionador ambiental en El Salvador a la luz de la sentencia de inconstitucionalidad 115-2012. Dicha resolución declaró inconstitucional el artículo 89 de la Ley de Medio Ambiente, al considerar que vulneraba el principio de …
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The Rights-Based Approach to Extractive Resource Governance in Nigeria through the Lens of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Lessons from South Africa
… amending existing laws and strengthening regulatory agencies. At the same time, it explores the option of creating new business and human rights institutional agencies to address corporate and business-related human rights abuse. Using the elements of the rights-based approach, the linkages …
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Privatizing the Cosmopolitan Responsibility to Protect. : Considering a Normative Argument for Why the Contractor Might Be Better Suited Vis-à-Vis the State Soldier to Serve Common Humanity
… Learning about the reluctance of liberal states to commit wholeheartedly to the protection of strangers overseas, I started asking the question of how to ensure that liberal states commit to their responsibility to protect individuals comprehensibly and resolutely. From this thought stems the …
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The Rubik’s Cube of democratic development a normative model of statebuilding
… theory, international development, or transitology. The outcome of the schema helps understand, explain and forecast the challenges related to state failure and statebuilding. Although, there were several techniques to address state failure most of them were ineffective. The restoration of …
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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 obligations’. …
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La conservación del patrimonio cultural inmueble durante conflictos armados : la guerra civil española, (1936-1939)
… inmueble cultural producida por el conflicto, así como la participación de los nacionales, el bando beligerante que se sublevó contra el régimen de la Segunda República, en la reparación de los daños causados al patrimonio monumental constituido por inmuebles religiosos en su mayor parte. …
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Evaluating the legitimacy of national security practices and anti-terrorism legislation
… human rights and terrorism is an interesting topic with sufficient social relevance to justify this research based Masters. Since 2001, this topic has become one of the most pressing issues of our time. While there was already a considerable amount of literature on the topic before the …