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Research Articles (Centre for Human Rights): Recent submissions
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2023-12)The discourse on the evolving nature of African-led peace support operations (pso) is not complete without asking how gender-inclusive they are. Women have historically been underrepresented within the peace and security ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2024)This case study investigates strategies used by the NGO Leonard Cheshire Disability Zimbabwe (LCDZ) to promote the SRHRs of girls and young women with disabilities in Zimbabwe. The findings show that LCDZ employed a ...
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(Juta law, 2022-03)This article examines the recent adoption of the Twin Peaks model by the United Kingdom and South Africa. An international and comparative analysis is provided. It observes that there is a gradual paradigm shift across ...
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(Unisa Press, 2022)In terms of Article 1(1) of the of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (African Children’s Charter), state parties are encouraged to recognise the rights, freedoms and duties enshrined in this Charter ...
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(Institute for Foreign and Comparative Law, 2022-03)Cyberspace operates on a geographically borderless platform, thus often rendering national laws ineffective in regulating the impact of cyber-related activities outside South African borders. Recognising this issue, South ...
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(Juta Law, 2022-12)The core legal question in the Coko v S judgment turned on whether the complainant tacitly consented to penetrative sex. The appellant was acquitted by the high court based on his defence that he genuinely believed that ...
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(Unisa Press, 2022-06)The right to dignity of sexual minorities has continued to be violated across Africa, necessitating the need to deploy national, regional, and global human rights to secure its promotion and protection. Human dignity is a ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2023-06)The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) established a reporting process to monitor compliance. Despite its shortcomings, this process provides an ...
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(2023-09-29, 2022)This article compares second-order state compliance in respect of regional and sub-regional human rights tribunals (HRTs) in Africa. Using as its unit of analysis the compliance orders issued by these HRTs, the article ...
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(University of Victoria, 2022)The global development agenda acknowledges the role of cities in achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and addressing contemporary challenges caused by urbanization. SDG 11 aspires to make ...
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(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022-02)The universally dire threat of climate change disproportionately affects marginalized populations, including the over one billion persons with disabilities worldwide. States that disregard the Paris Agreement, or exclude ...
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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2022)The recent expanded understanding of Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), which includes Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE), seeks to highlight inter alia the needs of adolescents, (especially those with ...
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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2022)No abstract available.
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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2022)No abstract available.
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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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(Taylor and Francis, 2023)South Africa has ratified several international instruments that impose an obligation on the country to allocate sufficient budgetary resources to realise women’s rights. Gender budgeting has been recognised as a means ...
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(Edinburgh University Press, 2022-08)Behind the cloak of maintaining national security and public order, African governments and the private sector constantly encroach upon the data privacy rights of individuals. The right to privacy is not only protected by ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2022-11)Traditionally, international humanitarian law (IHL) is conceptualized as a body of mutually binding, horizontal international legal rules that are agreed upon by States and that govern the relationships between parties ...
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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2022)African governments are increasingly enacting laws that criminalise false news or adopting practices such as internet shutdowns as strategies to address the spread of online false news during elections. These approaches ...
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(Edinburgh University Press, 2022-11)There are three main regional human rights tribunals (HRTs) in Africa, namely the African Commission, the African Court and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. In addition to these, ...
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