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Browsing Research Articles (Centre for Human Rights) by Title
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(The American Society of Comparative Law, 2012)This Article analyzes the extent to which some of the highest courts in Africa have tackled the potential conflict between the power of judicial review on the one hand, and public opinion on the other, by looking at two ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2024)BACKGROUND : The transgender population is one of the most marginalized and misunderstood population groups in South Africa. Despite a progressive and inclusive human rights-based legal framework, transgender people in ...
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(Juta Law, 2013)Each year, unsafe abortion causes the death of thousands of women, rendering them seriously ill and disabling many more in the African region. Highly restrictive abortion law is a major causative factor. Among United Nations ...
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(AOSIS, 2024-07)BACKGROUND: Individuals with communication disabilities encounter obstacles in attaining equal access to justice compared to others. Despite experiencing widespread violence and abuse, they come across as challenges in ...
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Accountability for the Gukurahundi atrocities in Zimbabwe thirty years on : prospects and challenges (Institute for Foreign and Comparative Law, 2015)It is estimated that between 10 000 and 20 000 civilians were killed by state and state sponsored agents between 1982 and 1988 in Zimbabwe. In addition to murder, there were widespread torture, rape and other sexual offences, ...
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(Africa Institute of South Africa, 2017-12)This article aims to assess the possible options and prospects for actualising the right to development (RTD) in Africa. Mindful of the controversy surrounding the legal status of the RTD, the article starts by problematising ...
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(LLC “СPС “Business Perspectives”, 2014)Mass migration as a way of adapting to climate change impact is not new. However, the total migration of a permanent population from a defined territory as a coping response to the impact of climate change is only emerging. ...
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(Malawi Law Society, 2009)The inauguration of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in 2006 heralded a new phase in trans-national judicial implementation of human rights in Africa, but it also brought new legal challenges with it. ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2020)Universal Health Coverage (UHC) forces governments to consider not only how services will be provided – but which services – and to whom, when, where, how and at what cost. This paper considers the implications for ...
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(Routledge, 2023)This study grounds itself in contact theory and imagined contact theory to argue that contact and simulated/imagined contact with queerness contributes to the eradication of homophobic prejudices. Using international human ...
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(Juta Law, 2013)Botswana's Refugee (Recognition and Control) Act has been in force since 1967. It was promulgated before Botswana became a state party to the UN Refugee Convention and its Protocol and before its accession to the OAU Refugee ...
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(Routledge, 2022)A child’s right to grow up with its parents is presented in articles 9 and 25 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of a Child, respectively. South ...
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(Edinburgh University Press, 2007-03)No abstract available
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(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002-02)Within the domain of respect for human and peoples’ rights by African states there has been, until recently, little unity of purpose. The common standards that African states have maintained in their laws and practices ...
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(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), one of the spin-offs of the African development framework, NEPAD, offers a unique approach to the monitoring of agreed norms of political, economic, and corporate governance in ...
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(Duncker & Humblot, 2003)The article examines the objectives and institutional structure of the African Union (AU) in the light of the experiences of its predecessor the Organization of African Unity (OAU) as well as the African Economic Community ...
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(Juta Law, 2009)This article focuses on the establishment of the Panel of the Wise in the African Union peace and security architecture. It examines the basis, design and role of the Panel, and explores the possibilities that can be ...
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(Juta Law, 2014)Articles 14(1)(d) and (e) of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa specifically provide for women’s sexual and reproductive health rights in the context of HIV. ...
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(Sage, 2014)Debates and discussions about the African renaissance and the Africanisation of universities have raged for decades. The goal of developing an emancipatory Afrocentric system that frees African education from the continuous ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2012)A fundamental tenet of modern constitutionalism is that nobody, regardless of his status is above the law. Extensive powers conferred on African presidents in the independence constitutions, reinforced by ineffective ...
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