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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"minority rights"”.
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Sexual minority rights in Cameroon
… in light of that country’s international human rights obligation. The study examines the constitution and laws of Cameroon as applicable to sexual minorities. It aims to discuss recent developments in international human rights law with regard to the human rights basis for decriminalising …
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Sexual minority rights in Cameroon
… in light of that country’s international human rights obligation. The study examines the constitution and laws of Cameroon as applicable to sexual minorities. It aims to discuss recent developments in international human rights law with regard to the human rights basis for decriminalising …
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Minority rights, liberal autonomy and North American Indian schools
… to separate schools designed to reinforce minority cultural identities within a pluralist society. It is argued that liberal suspicions of publicly funded separate schools are unfounded in cases where such schools are more likely than the alternative form of public schooling (i.e., the …
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Minority Rights In Europe; The Roma Population as a Case Study
… thesis undertakes an in-depth analysis of the minority rights of Roma populations living within the European Union. The Roma people face economic, social and political discrimination that permeates both government institutions and society in general and has prevented this minority group from …
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Minority rights and democracy: The transitions of post-Soviet Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania
… if considered only in the sphere of minority rights--is a dynamic process. It involves bargaining by political actors and the complex interaction among state policy, societal actors, and domestic and foreign influences. By examining the states' conceptions of nationalities policy, the …
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Bounds of Righteous Agency: The gendered subject of minority rights in contemporary India
… India, a liberal democracy where Muslims are a minority. Moving away from approaches in normative political theory that focus on elective affinities between religion and reified liberal categories such as individual autonomy and the individual rights-bearing person, this dissertation explores …
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Toward a Political Conception of Minority Rights: Reconciling Sovereignty, Human Rights and Minority Claims
… dissertation is whether one can defend the rights of homeland minorities as a progressive extension of the existing norms of human rights. This question calls for several deeper inquiries about the nature, the function and the underlying justifications for both human rights and minority …
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The protection of minority rights: a comparative survey with special reference to South Africa's constitutional options
… is firstly to define and analyse the concept of minority rights and to place it in perspective in relation to surrounding concepts such as communalism, ethnicity, groups and individualism. This is done through a critical discussion of various theoretical perspectives relating to the subject …
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When States ‘Come Out’: The Politics Of Visibility And The Diffusion Of Sexual Minority Rights In Europe
… obse rvers have referred to as "an invisible minority," the newfound presence and influence of LGBT people in many different nation states offers fresh opportunities for the study of socio-political change and the diffusion of norms. Despite similar international pressures, why are the …
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Judicial activism in South Afica's Constitutional Court : minority protection or judicial illegitimacy?
… examines the effect of judicial protection of minority rights on the Constitutional Court’s legitimacy. The framing of the Marriage Act shows that Parliament intended marriage to be between a man and a woman. By nullifying section 30(1) of the Act and making the order above, the Court fulfilled …
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Challenging Khmer citizenship : minorities, the state, and the international community in Cambodia
… thesis investigates the internationalization of minority rights, by exploring state-minority relations in Cambodia, in light of Will Kymlicka’s theory of multicultural citizenship. Based on extensive empirical research, the analysis explores the situation and aspirations of Cambodia’s ethnic …
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Divisive Rights and Structural Wrongs: A Comparison in Polycentric Constitutionalism
… on socio-political factions over fundamental rights, the research’s overarching goal is to develop a theoretically grounded criteria to help determine which structural division of power may better suit resolving which type of faction. Specifically, the research confines its ambit to conflicts …
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Just Do It! Self-Determination for Complex Minorities
… that challenges state-centric theories of minority rights by focusing on the transformative power communities generate through stories and actions.
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Federalism and Conflict Management in Ethiopia. Case Study of Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State.
… federal system that recognises ethnic groups¿ rights is the first step in transforming the structural causes of civil wars in Ethiopia. Against this background this research examines whether the federal arrangement has created an enabling environment in managing conflicts in the country. To …
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Participation of Parochial School Children in State Benefits
… right as a citizen. Here there is question of minority rights. As in the sectional, racial and industrial fields, to pose the question is to present the problem, should the Catholic-school child share in such facilities as are offered to all American children, or should he be refused on the …
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Parties, Committees, and Rules in the U.S. House of Representatives
… regarding the principle of majority rule and minority rights. I begin by taking a critical look at previous studies on this subject, after which I propose an alternative theory on the conditional nature of rules changes. The empirical findings reveal that different combinations of factors are …
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Between Majority Power and Minority Resistance : Kurdish Linguistic Rights in Turkey
… figurative asset of membership in a majority or minority and the most symbolic aspect of national authority, language is a major site of struggle for majority power and minority resistance. For the purposes of this study, which focuses on the question of Kurdish linguistic rights in Turkey, the …
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Continental Drifters: Holocaust Memory, Decolonization, and Postwar Migration to Europe
… of assimilation, religious tolerance, and minority rights in Europe. This literature's attentiveness to Holocaust memory, I show, critically disrupts both the strategic forgetting of the Holocaust and the simultaneous repurposing of its memory as instructive of the dangers of failed …
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Turkish-Kurdish Conflict: An Ethno-Symbolist Exploration of Turks' and Kurds' Territorial Homeland Claims
… conflicts stem from states' failure to recognize minority rights. Within the framework of this approach, it is assumed that ethnic conflicts occur due to the discriminatory policies on the part of the state. As a reaction to those policies, ethnic groups resist with rebellious elements. However …
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