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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"rights-based approach"”.
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Rights-based approach to poverty reduction: The Ghanaian experience [Thesis]
… study draws on the theoretical lens of the human rights-based approach (HRBA) to poverty reduction to examine how the implementation of the LEAP programme aligns with beneficiaries’ human rights entitlements. It argues that the LEAP programme has failed to align with the HRBA and leaves unattended …
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AI governance: investigating a rights-based approach to explanation in AI
… such as the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA), and various other human rights and AI governance frameworks. The findings reveal that while some …
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Overcoming religious and cultural obstacles to organ donation : a rights-based approach
… transplantation, basing its arguments in a human rights-based approach. Ways in which human rights norms may be used in the promotion of organ donation, whilst still respecting the cultural and religious beliefs of the individuals involved, are interrogated. It is concluded that religious and …
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The Power of Messaging: An Examination of a Rights-based Approach to Dementia
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Water for all : an analysis of a human rights based approach to water access
… was undertaken to determine whether a human rights based approach would ensure each person's access to a water supply sufficient to meet her basic needs. A human right to water shows promise as a strategy for ensuring universal access to water if a broad, comprehensive human rights theory is …
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Fighting HIV/AIDS insecurities using a human rights-based approach : a case study of Zimbabwe
… in Zimbabwe through a developmental and human rights based approach. In particular it focuses on second generation rights because of their emphasis on the social welfare of individuals. Second generation rights relate to the living conditions of people in society, attempting to ensure that …
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Social enterprise as a rights-based approach to development : a comparative study of two organizations
… As such, there is potential to implement rights-based approaches which integrate human rights principles into organizational design, procedure and processes and put pressure on traditional responsibility bearers. Pure Home Water and Community Water Solutions are two social enterprises …
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A Human Rights based approach to the psychiatric treatment of mental illness among prisoners in Uganda
Reports of people with mental disorders without access to treatment are a major occurrence in prisons outside and within Africa. An estimated 450 000 000 people worldwide suffer from mental or behavioural disorders. The disproportionately high rate of mental disorders in prisons is due to several …
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Rights-Based Approach to Maternal Health: Constitutionalizing Protection of Women's Reproductive Rights in Nigeria
… the thesis employs a functional comparative law approach, using India and South Africa as comparators, to assess how the constitutional courts of these countries have applied intersectional perspective to right to health. It highlights the importance of adopting an intersectional approach to …
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A rights-based approach to HIV prevention, care, support and treatment: a review of its implementation in Ethiopia
… global consensus on the effectiveness of using a rights-based approach as a vehicle to ensure access to HIV prevention, care, support and treatment services. Being one of the Sub-Saharan African countries hit by the epidemic, Ethiopia has adopted laws, policies and strategies that expedite its …
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From the human rights-based approach to an ecological approach on how to achieve successful inclusion in international disability education
… of exclusion. Using a mixed methodology approach, I conduct a quest to revealing several societal factors that limit full participation of people with disabilities in their communities, which will contribute to understanding and developing a more comprehensive framework for full inclusion …
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A rights-based approach to accountability : an exploration of the RBA theory as a mechanism of downward accountability in development and humanitarian NGOs
… link between theories of accountability and the rights-based approach in nongovernmental humanitarian and development organizations. It suggests that the rights-based approach (RBA) necessitates a commitment to accountability to the beneficiaries of NGO work. It suggests how the RBA might best …
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Supportive housing in the age of market fundamentalism : a human rights-based approach to the provision of supportive housing for mentally ill homeless people
… grossly underprovided. In this paper, I build a rights-based strategy for supportive housing advocates, specifically structured around meeting the needs of mentally ill homeless people. A rights-based strategy, emanating from constitutional law, is the most robust way to secure this support. The …
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The Rights-Based Approach to Extractive Resource Governance in Nigeria through the Lens of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Lessons from South Africa
… Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (GPs), in the extractive industry in Nigeria. It considers the prospects of amending existing laws and strengthening regulatory agencies. At the same time, it explores the option of creating new business and human rights institutional …
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Child refugee rights in Cape Town: the right to access education
Child refugee rights are a pertinent issue in the Republic of South Africa. South Africa's progressive Constitution (1996) stipulates the right of all children to access education without discrimination. This research project used a rights based approach to education research to identify some of …
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From protection to persecution: exploring the impact of anti-foreigner mobilisation on refugee rights in South Africa
… how anti-foreigner mobilisation impedes the rights and lives of refugees in South Africa. This study does this by highlighting the anti-foreigner mobilisation movement, Operation Dudula. Grounded in a qualitative desk review, the study examines the systemic, social and economic impacts of …
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Enforcing copyright online in an age of internet user fundamental rights: reconciling competing paradigms at the user level
… to go too far in undermining the fundamental rights of internet users. The commonly held view is that, once stimulated, these rights will now frustrate any attempt to regulate internet users who engage in online piracy. From a policy perspective, maintaining this status quo has been the goal …
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Women and post-conflict development : a case study on Liberia
… 'poster child' in light of the call by women's rights advocates to insert women in all aspects of the political, social, and economic transition in post-conflict countries. Liberia has elected the first female African President and women head the strategic government ministries of Finance, …
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