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Showing 1 to 20 of 153 for “"human rights violations"”.
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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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Institutional Determinants of Human Rights Violations Across Political Regimes
… judicial and political institutions promote human rights. In the first chapter I argue that judicial independence is not enough for courts to protect human rights. I found the empirical evidence supports my hypothesis, both judicial independence and judicial enforcement are necessary for …
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Weak states, human rights violations, and the outbreak of civil war.
… paper, I argue that abuses of personal integrity rights, committed or sponsored by the government, provide this missing link. The theory is illustrated and formalized in a game-theoretic model and then tested empirically, building on earlier work by Fearon and Laitin (2003a) and Sambanis (2004). …
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The role of courts in adjudicating human rights violations by transnational corporations
… entities largely unregulated in the context of human rights. While globalization has facilitated growth for such entities by lowering legal, financial and technical restrictions, a failure to agree an overarching protection mechanism and the weaknesses in current protection mechanisms creates a …
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Profits versus human rights : accountability for corporate complicity in human rights violations
… to examine the interplay between business and human rights within the context of political transitions from authoritarian to democratic rule. In the wake of the globalisation process and the subsequent breakdown of the Westphalian state system, transnational corporations (TNCs) have acquired …
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Building an Open Source Platform for Forensic Medical Documentation of Human Rights Violations
… records, currently deployed by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) in Kenya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to forensically and clinically document sexual violence. Its uses in documenting of sexual violence have allowed for the collection of court-admissible evidence for use in the …
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Multinational corporations and their Human Rights violations: the quest for a legally binding treaty
… where they are often involved or implicated in human rights violations. As the current corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives aimed at addressing global corporate abuses are non-binding on MNCs, the UN has initiated a treaty-drafting process with the aim to adopt a business and human …
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Fast Fashion: A Thorough Examination on Human Rights Violations in Bangladesh and Global Environmental Degradation
… it is one of the leading industries in human rights violations and environmental degradation. The thesis explores the different implications of fast fashion in a form that focuses on the human right violations workers are enduring and the global effect of such high demand for fast …
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Gender Based Violence as a Continuum of Human Rights Violations in Russia and the Czech Republic
… public health problem and not only violates human rights, but also hampers productivity, reduces human capital, and undermines economic growth. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, human trafficking for sexual exploitation and domestic violence have become a significant problem in …
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Holding multinational corporations accountable for human rights violations under International, African regional and South African Law
… thesis will focus on examining MNCs violation of human rights with specific reference to the environment and child labour. This paper will critique existing measures South Africa has adopted and implemented to prevent MNCs from committing such harmful practices and to hold them accountable for …
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Truth commission testimony : relation to psychiatric status and forgiveness among South African survivors of human rights violations
… and forgiveness attitudes among survivors of human rights abuses. A literature review examined the degree to which the TRC's claims are supported by the existing theoretical and empirical literature on trauma narratives and on forgiveness, and guided the way that psychological outcomes were …
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Making amends : the psychological impact of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on victims of gross human rights violations
… was to recover truth about the country's past human rights abuse and recommend a policy on reparations for the victims. This study evaluates the impact of the TRC's work of truth recovery and policy on reparations on the reconciliation process. It specifically explores opinions and views of …
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Transformative Arts Practices in the Criminal Justice System. The impact of human rights violations on identity amongst those previously incarcerated
This research discusses the impact that human rights violations have on the identity of parolees and ex-offenders. It makes use of the Applied Theatre form, Theatre of the Oppressed (TO), and its practices of Image Theatre and Newspaper Theatre. These practices draw on lived experiences in the form …
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The International Criminal Court and its potential to prevent human rights violations : with special consideration to the actual African situation
… examines in particular the impact of the ICC on human rights, especially on the African continent. The main problem in this context is to define clearly such a possible positive impact on the human right situation and to establish proof of it. In the absence of a proof of such a positive impact …
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South African obligation under international law to prosecute and punish perpetrators of gross human rights violations and to provide compensation for victims
… respects the rule of law and the fundamental human rights of its citizens is a difficult and strenuous one. Often equipped with only limited financial resources, many newly elected, democratic governments find themselves confronted with a variety of urgent problems waiting to be resolved: the …
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Political economy, public policy, power structures, and human rights violations : the case of internally displaced persons in Colombia between 1993 and 2010
… persons in the world, and one of the worst in human rights violations. Despite the popular believe that these human rights violations are due to the internal conflict with guerillas, this thesis found that rather, the largest share of violence, displacement, and human rights violations are due …
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Human Rights Violations under the Guise of Counter-Terrorism Measures: A Question of Reconciling Security Concerns and Protecting the Fundamental Right to Life
Both security and human rights are important to all within the civilized world. Yet there are some serious tensions between the two political norms. For instance, it may not be easy for a state or the international community to reconcile well intentioned acts to maintain security and to preserve …
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Russian Intervention in Crimea and the Question of Responsibility to Protect
… requires (1) the case must have confirmed human rights violations; (2) the state must demonstrate that the human rights violations are more important than the state's sovereignty; and, (3) the state must use the multilateral system in the United Nations Security Council. The Russian …
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