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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"human rights violation"”.
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A human rights violation during the South African transition: documenting narratives of the 1993 Highgate attack in a support group context
… studies of trauma and testimony after gross violations of human rights to examine how group members' narratives were shaped by their experiences in the support group. Qualitative research in psychology provides the guiding epistemological framework for this study. Two sets of individual …
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Visual Recognition of Human Rights Violations
This thesis is concerned with the automation of human rights violation recognition in images. Solving this problem is extremely beneficial to human rights organisations and investigators, who are often interested in identifying and documenting potential violations of human rights within images. It …
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Narrating rape at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa
… women who shared their stories of rape at the human rights violation hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ('TRC') in South Africa offer a nascent public record of women's experiences of rape under apartheid. This project is motivated by a desire to examine how these testimonies …
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Human Rights in Turkey: A Comparative Perpsective on Violation and Resolution
… and possible resolution of the issue of human rights violation in modern Turkey. Underpinned by a portrayal of human rights in their relation to the development of capitalism and the social philosophy of natural law, a theoretical framework of economic self-interest and an emotional …
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A model for assessing the risk of human trafficking on a local level
Human trafficking is a human rights violation that is difficult to quantify. Models for estimating the number of victims of trafficking presented by previous researchers depend on inconsistent, poor quality data. As an intermediate step to help current efforts by nonprofits to combat human …
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Recreating Resistance: Rape Culture Resistance Through Human Rights Education
… rape culture on college campuses as a human rights violation and ways to address it in an intersectional manner through human rights education. The research for this project, conducted through a literature review, provides the ability to look at rape culture through a human rights …
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To Examine the Psychosocial Challenges and Coping Strategies Among Persons with Albinism in Tanzania:A Case of Temeke Municipal Council
… to institutional in social services provision, human Rights violation and economic, emotional and psychological vulnerability of people with Albinism in Tanzania. The study found that there was positive significance relationship between society education, myths, traditions and beliefs that had …
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Female Genital Mutilation and Marital Satisfaction among Kenyan Females
… intentions and is widely considered a human rights violation. Globally, tangled cultural and religious traditions are responsible for perpetuating Female Genital Mutilation. Women continue to be victims of this practice irrespective of their socio-economic status, and irrespective of an …
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Educação em direitos humanos na formação de docentes: da universidade à prática pedagógica
… reflection and discussion on Education in Human Rights both in the university - with the formation of graduates - and in school in critical and reflective training of students in Brazil. We have seen in recent years, an evolution in our legislation with the creation of documents that ensure …
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Grassroots Community Peacebuilding in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Identifying Local Perceptions of the Causes of and Means of Preventing Interpersonal Violence
… a global health problem and pervasive human rights violation. Responses are critiqued as narrow in scope, reactive and lacking in coordination. The research presented in this thesis contributes to addressing this gap by exploring measures community citizens from diverse backgrounds …
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Becoming a human trafficker: qualitatively examining social learning theory and social opportunity structure among Bulgarian human traffickers
Sexual exploitation is a human rights violation sustained by sophisticated organized crime syndicates and a lucrative sex industry. In Europe, research on human traffickers indicates that people choose to become a trafficker due to the juxtaposition of widespread poverty and poor economic …
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Sexual and gender-based violence and its effects on married women: A case of Ngombe compound in Lusaka district
… and extensive worldwide problem but also a human rights violation. This fact is acknowledged by the UN. This study was conducted from September to November 2013 in Ngombe Compound which is an unplanned settlement in Lusaka City of Zambia. Ngombe The aim of this study was to explore the …
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Sexual and gender-based violence and its effects on married women: A case of Ngombe compound in Lusaka district
… and extensive worldwide problem but also a human rights violation. This fact is acknowledged by the UN. This study was conducted from September to November 2013 in Ngombe Compound which is an unplanned settlement in Lusaka City of Zambia. Ngombe The aim of this study was to explore the …
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How effective is international Human Rights Law? A case study of domestic violence in the United Kingdom
This thesis argues that international human rights law has only a limited amount of potential to be used effectively in relation to the issue of domestic violence in the United Kingdom. The possible use of human rights law through two strategies is assessed. The first of these is a litigation …
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The Post-Conflict Reconciliation Process; Truth Commissions
… in their interest to apply the rule of law and human rights norms beyond their borders. While peace building efforts have been achieved through criminal prosecutions, truth commissions, reparation programs, and vetting, a truth commission, in particular, has been progressively used in the past …
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Mediating Maendeleo: Examining the Nexus Between Geothermal Extraction, Wildlife Conservation and Community Well-being in Olkaria-Suswa, Southern Kenya
… environmental governance (eramatare) and rights-based development (esipata) have been shaped by geothermal development in the area of study. The findings of this study show that geothermal development and wildlife conservation are incompatible as the former is privileged over the latter to …
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Female survivors of abduction in armed conflict zone: psychosocial needs, rehabilitation, and reintegration pathway
… utilised for study three which focuses on the human rights violation of women who returned and how these violations can be addressed. Study four is the formulation of rehabilitation pathway for women who survived abduction from armed conflict zones which is my original contribution to …
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Interstate cooperation and anti-trafficking : assessing existing approaches between Nigeria and the United Kingdom
… are still sold as commodities in the form of human trafficking, to be exploited for sexual services, cheap labour, domestic servitude and other emerging forms of contemporary slavery. Human Trafficking (Hereafter, Trafficking) is a transnational human rights violation that has generated …
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Engaging male university student leaders in the adaptation process of the One Man Can Intervention (OMCI) to inform sexual violence prevention strategies in student residences: a case study
Sexual violence is a human rights violation, which affects physical, sexual, reproductive, mental and social well-being. The overwhelming burden of sexual violence is borne mostly by women and children at the hands of men. The university environment is no exception, and the impacts of sexual …
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