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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"impunity"”.
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Risk Distance: The Loss of Strength Gradient and Colombia's Geography of Impunity
The dissertation proposes a theoretical category of distance, risk distance, as a prompt for understanding outcomes in internal armed struggles. Geographers are familiar with cost distance -- conceiving distance according to the time or material resources needed to move people and things. Risk …
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The International Criminal Court in Self-Referral States: Legitimacy, Reputation, and the Court’s Anti-Impunity Mandate
… the International Criminal Court (ICC) is to end impunity for the crimes falling under its jurisdiction, i.e., genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and crimes of aggression (ICC-level crimes). Concerning investigations initiated by a State Party to the Rome Statute referring a situation …
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Deploying Accountability: The Strategic Use of the Anti-Impunity Norm in Internal Conflicts in Côte d’Ivoire and Mali
… internal conflict. Despite the rise of the anti-impunity norm as a sovereignty-constraining force, governments proactively engage with the norm, even during internal conflicts in which their very legitimacy is in jeopardy. How and why does the usage, or ‘deployment,’ of the anti-impunity norm by …
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When Laws and Representation Are Not Enough: Enduring Impunity and Post-Conflict Sexual Violence in Liberia and Sierra Leone
… will be associated with lower levels of impunity for sexual assault and this will result in lower levels of sexual violence. This study finds that the presence of a female head of state in Liberia does not simply equate to lower levels of sexual violence. The existence of a female …
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Modern shipping law in South Africa - can Section 6 of the Admiralty Jurisdiction Regulation Act be discarded with impunity? - a comparative study
There is no area of the law which cannot be improved by being re-thought from its first principles. Admiralty jurisdiction and procedure are no exceptions to this general rule; the antiquity of parts of English admiralty jurisdiction and procedure are such that re-thinking both by admiralty and …
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“Rape and GBV is part of the TRC's unfinished business!”: Illuminating a culture of impunity through tracing the legacy and collective memory of sexual violence in contemporary South Africa
… and apartheid era crime and the culture of impunity that has surrounded this for decades. While the transition from apartheid saw substantial changes being brought about in the country, as part of the process of addressing past harms with a view of securing a peaceful and democratic future, …
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“Ek sal jou heeltyd dophou.” (I'll be watching you the whole time) Surveillance and the Male Gaze in Films by Black South African Women
… for a close textual analysis of Jyoti Mistry's Impunity (2015) and Nosipho Dumisa's Nommer 37 (Number 37) (2018). I set out to determine how Mistry and Dumisa use the camera to represent the women protagonists in the two films, and whether they reproduce, transform, or comment on the patriarchal …
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Ni una más. International cooperation against gender-based discrimination: the femicide case in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico
… of silence provoked either by the high impunity rate, the governmental incompetence to solve the crimes, or the general indifference of the population. It is the story of hundreds of kidnapped, raped, in many cases tortured, and murdered young women in the border between Mexico and the …
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Is international law a building or stumbling block to States' response to a legacy of massive atrocities? Reassessing the obligations to investigate and prosecute
… in a society in which perpetrators enjoy impunity, since de facto and de jure impunity do per se constitute a breach of states parties’ duties under the conventions, criminal prosecution cannot be the only tool for reckoning with the past because punishment also encompasses non-criminal …
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The principle of universal jurisdiction as a tool of international criminal justice: challenges for Africa
… rights. I regard the search for ways to end impunity in the cause of gross violations of human rights as an essential part of the work of my Office and an essential instrument in the struggle to defend human rights... ln my daily work as High Commissloner for Human Rights, I see many …
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Reflections on the evolving jurisprudence concerning the presence of the accused : focusing on National Commissioner of the South African Police Service v Southern African Human Rights Litigation Centre and Another
… implications of this judgment. The fight against impunity for perpetrators of international crimes, emphasised by both the Rome Statute and South Africa's own legislation, has been strengthened by this judgment. This paper will also examine the remaining areas of concern which were not addressed …
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Deconstructing Newspaper Representations of the International Criminal Court
… Court (ICC), specifically (1) the notion of impunity; (2) the presence of a critical analysis; and (3) the connection between state support/opposition and favourable/negative portrayals of the Court. The theory chapter focuses on the propaganda model’s main premise that “media serve the …
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Going national: universal jurisdiction and the principle of complementarity in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
… (ICC) set to work in The Hague in 2002, to fight impunity for the most atrocious crimes against international law, having an impact on the international community as a whole.1 This has been welcomed with high expectations from the civil society.2 However, negotiations on an international …
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Multinational corporations and their Human Rights violations: the quest for a legally binding treaty
… a BHR treaty is necessary in order to end the impunity of MNCs and second, whether adopting this treaty is politically feasible.
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An analysis of the human rights abuses against minority groups and the prospects of transitional justice in post–Mugabe Zimbabwe
… faced by Zimbabwe include a culture of impunity and a compromised judiciary, which have perpetuated human rights abuses. Genuine reforms are necessary to address this issue effectively. In 2017, Mugabe was overthrown by a military coup, marking a new era and bringing hope for a better …
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Literatura policial: gender, genre, and appropriation in Argentine and Brazilian hard-boiled crime fiction.
… as nuanced forms of protest against cultures of impunity and state terrorism. More recently, Brazilian Patrícia Melo and Argentine Claudia Piñeiro have enriched these national traditions with their own interpretations of urban violence and created new ways for women to speak in a genre that has …
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A Critical Examination of Zambia's Democratic Performance since 1991
… of violence against its citizenry with impunity by government officials and the political elites. Alleged cases of corruption rarely end in convictions despite overwhelming evidence of illegal practices. The Electoral Commission of Zambia and the judiciary are often accused of being …
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Into "the Dead Zone" : racial violence and white supremacist genocide in Jim Crow Virginia, 1902-1951
… of racial terror through state executions and impunity for individual perpetrators through a series of case studies. Examining these case studies using models from the field of genocide studies, this project ultimately argues for an understanding of Jim Crow-era racial violence as a part of a …
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Impunidad y Leyes de Amnistía: El caso salvadoreño
… upon itself to carry out a study on the topic "Impunity and Amnesty Laws: The Salvadoran Case", a topic that becomes particularly relevant from the decade of the seventies of the last century, with the advent of the third wave democracy, the dilemma has been raised about how to address massive …
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Assessment of Strength and Limitations of Drug Use Interventions: A Case of Kinondoni Municipality
… rehabilitation centres, intensification of laws impunity, good governance to stimulate employment, and collaboration among actors so as to maximize the merger resources. Key words: drug use, youth, human behavior, behavior change and drug use interventions.
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