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Showing 1 to 20 of 91 for “"international human rights law"”.
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Women's rights in Islam and current discourse of international human rights law
The international norm of non-discrimination on the basis of sex as reflected in the UN human rights instrument culminated in 1979 with the adoption of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. With the adoption of the Convention, the separate concepts of …
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The application of Shari’ah and international human rights law in Saudi Arabia
… comparative study of the application of Islamic law (Shari’ah) and international human rights law in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It provides an analysis of the sources of Islamic law as well as the sources of international law to set the background for analysis and defines the nature of both …
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State obligations in international human rights law on human trafficking : case study Poland
This thesis aims to investigate the compliance of international and national (EU) laws on human rights, with a specific focus on Poland, regarding the extent to which they meet the minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking. The primary research question examines whether …
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Reforming Hudud ordinances to reconcile Islamic criminal law with international human rights law
International human rights laws are grossly violated by the hudud ordinances, with their extremely cruel punishments, including stoning for adultery, beheading for apostasy, and amputation for theft. Pakistan, Sudan, Brunei Darussalam and Saudi Arabia, for example, follow the doctrines of the four …
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Childhood statelessness in Kenya: an appraisal of legislative compliance with international human rights law obligations
… as a citizen of any state under its citizenship laws. In Kenya, childhood statelessness arises in both non-migratory and migratory contexts. In the non-migratory context, it affects children from ethnic minority groups and non-indigenous communities like: the Nubians, Waatas, Shirazis, Coastal …
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International human rights law and climate change: the case for a duty to mitigate climate change
… with the relationship between climate change and international human rights law. A special focus lies on the question if states have a human rights obligation to mitigate climate change by reducing greenhouse gas-emissions. To this end, the dissertation develops and proposes a risk-based approach …
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(Transnational) Corporations and Human Rights: an exploration into the accomodation of capital in international human rights law.
… in, if not instigators of, a variety of human rights violations. Despite this evidence, the international community of states has been unwilling or unable to respond to these violations in any adequate measure. At the same time, the discourse of human rights has become integral to state …
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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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Realising the socio-economic rights of refugees under international human rights law: A case study of South Africa
… of this study is to outline the socio-economic rights of refugees in South Africa with a particular emphasis on their rights to education, housing and health care. The study aims to explore whether the current treatment of refugees in South Africa is in accordance with existing international …
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A History in the Making: Muslim Sexual and Gender Diversity between International Human Rights Law and Islamic Law
… on sexual and gender diversity related to international human rights law and Islamic law, as well as an ethnographic account of contemporary Muslims in Lahore, Pakistan whose pluralist sexual and gender experience defies the punitive gaze of state law.<br/><br/>The central hypothesis of …
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A Theory on State's Extended Remit under International Human Rights Law: Foundations and Implications for Extraterritorial Environmental Protection
… the problem of the scope of applicability of international human rights law in order to demonstrate the potential of human rights approaches for extraterritorial environmental protection. While the issue of extraterritoriality in the human rights field has been discussed for more than a decade …
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The Protection of the Environment in Occupied Territory under International Humanitarian Law, International Human Rights Law and International Environmental Law
… armed conflict is now widely acknowledged. International law has established various treaties that address the relationship between military activities and environmental damage during active hostilities, providing protection in such situations. However, the effectiveness of public …
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Freedom of speech as a universal value (a comparative approach from international human rights law, the first amendment, and Islamic law)
The issue of universalism in the human right of freedom of speech is one of several that continue to be debated among Muslims and Westerners. As evidence of incompatibility of Islamic law with the international law of freedom of speech, Westerners, on the basis of Muslims' reactions towards the …
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Exploring the applicability and limitations of international human rights law to the protection of transgender persons: a case study on detention
… analyses the applicability and limitations of human rights law as it applies to transgender persons. As such limitations are most evident in a strictly sex segregated spaces, the thesis proposes a case study on detention to illustrate potential conflict between the binary models of the sexes, …
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Overcoming Parental Consent: How can International Human Rights Law be used to Protect a Child’s Right to Health in Childhood Immunization Cases?
… and resolving this conflict is an issue of law. Childhood immunizations are the first line of defence for a child and as such, should be considered a basic human right that needs to be protected. By denying this right to the child, it infringes on that child’s right to health and right to …
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