• The rise of anti-gender movements in Africa and the erosion of LGBTQI+ rights : a case study of Botswana 

  Sekga, Ludo Lone (University of Pretoria, 2024)

  Understanding the reasons for the raging decline of LGBTQI+ rights in Africa is pivotal to countering this undoing of human rights. The recognition and understanding of anti-gender movements is critical in this regard. ...
• Corporate governance frameworks within South African-based non-governmental organisations in the human rights sector 

  Dunkle-Kock, M. J. (University of Pretoria, 2024-11)

  South Africa’s vibrant and growing civil society is often an important force in high profile legal matters on human rights, and has initiated multiple landmark cases to vindicate the rights contained in the South African ...
• The rights to life and freedom from torture of children associated with Non-State Armed Groups 

  Birhane, Fikire Tinsae (University of Pretoria, 2024-11-17)

  There are hundreds of thousands of children who are associated with non-State armed groups (NSAGs), recruited either forcefully or voluntarily. These children are subjected to various experiences during their association, ...
• The role of social activism in pursuing accountability for police abuse of power in Africa 

  Oyakhirome, Iruebafa Lily (University of Pretoria, 2024-11)

  Reports of police abuse of power, such as extrajudicial killings and torture are widespread in Africa. When these occur, the public expects the state to hold its agents accountable. Police accountability in human rights ...
• The right to education of internally displaced children in Burkina Faso 

  Tapsoba, Elsa Melissa (University of Pretoria, 2024-10-20)

  This research focuses on the right to education of internally displaced children in Burkina Faso. Since 2015, this country has been facing a security crisis marked by terrorist attacks that have led to the forced displacement ...
• The role of the hybrid court in the Gambia in ensuring accountability for human rights violations during Yahya Jammeh's regime 

  Bah, Mamadou Saidou (University of Pretoria, 2024-10-15)

  Hybrid courts are defined as courts that blend national and international legal frameworks, usually operating in the country where the crimes took place. Hybrid courts are often structured in a manner to ensure that only ...
• Evaluating the genocidal character of the massacres against the Amhara people in Oromia region of Ethiopia 

  Mullaw, Alemu Arage (University of Pretoria, 2024-11-15)

  It is evident that the Amhara ethnic group has faced systematic ethnic-based human rights violations, including the killing of tens of thousands of people, in the Oromia region of Ethiopia since the 1990s, escalating sharply ...
• Examining the effects of inheritance practices on women's socio-economic rights in Burundi 

  Mugisha, Merveille (University of Pretoria, 2024-10-23)

  This mini-dissertation examines the impact of inheritance practices on women's socioeconomic rights in Burundi, within the context of a patriarchal society where customary law continues to exclude women from inheritance. ...
• A right-based approach to self-managed abortion in Nigeria 

  Chukwuma, Ngozichukwu (University of Pretoria, 2024-08)

  In Nigeria, the intersection of restrictive abortion laws, socio-cultural barriers, and inadequate healthcare services has significantly hindered women's access to safe and legal abortion, leading many to resort to ...
• The role of human rights defenders in addressing the impact of child marriage on the girl-child's right to education in South Sudan 

  Chep, Akot Makur Chuot (University of Pretoria, 2024-10-23)

  Despite legally binding international, regional and domestic legal frameworks on South Sudan that define a child as anyone below 18 years old, child marriage remains prevalent with a rate of 52 per cent. The high rates of ...
• The implementation by Tanzania of orders of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights requiring constitutional and legislative reform 

  Magoti, Tito Elia (University of Pretoria, 2024-10-23)

  The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Court) has, in 25 decisions, ordered Tanzania to take legislative (and constitutional) measures to align several laws with the Charter. The decisions are thematically divided ...
• A human-rights based approached to assisted reproductive technologies in Kenya 

  Lichuma, Tracey N. (University of Pretoria, 2024)

  Access to assisted reproductive technologies is a major issue especially to women who suffer from infertility, women who choose to have children by themselves or persons who identify as LGBTQ+ . A human rights based apprto ...
• Reviewing anti-sodomy laws in Kenya through an inclusive interpretation of article 45(2) of the constitution 

  Nyabuti, Alex Maina (University of Pretoria, 2024-08)

  The research problematises the interpretation of Article 45(2) of the Constitution which only recognises marriage between the opposite sex as the stumbling block to decriminalise anti-sodomy laws. It uses doctrinal and ...
• An analysis of the impact of anti-rights actors on abortion rights in Nigeria 

  Ogwuegbu, Chioma Vivian (University of Pretoria, 2024-08)

  The sexual reproductive health and rights of women are deeply rooted in fundamental human rights. This research will challenge those conservative ideologies that limit women to bridge the gender and inequality gap thus ...
• Religious fundamentalisms and its influence on regulating reproductive rights in Uganda 

  Wakikona, Rose (University of Pretoria, 2024-08)

  This research reflects on the influence of religious fundamentalisms on the proposed Human Assisted Reproductive Technology bill of 2023 in Uganda and how this shall affect the reproductive rights of people who do not ...
• Refugee women’s access to and use of emergency contraceptives as a reproductive health right in Kenya 

  Opiyo, Annet Achieng (University of Pretoria, 2024-08)

  This dissertation focuses on discussing the access and usage of emergency contraceptives among refugee women as a human rights issue. The study incorporates the intersectionality and reproductive justice theory to explain ...
• Legal rules and procedures as barriers for judicial enforcement of women’s reproductive rights in Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana 

  Manjonjo, Tambudzai Mubaiwa (University of Pretoria, 2024-08)

  Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia are parties to international treaties and standards that recognise or are relevant to the protection of reproductive rights for women and have made them justiciable through constitutional ...
• The role of human rights in post-conflict reconstruction in the Democratic Republic of Congo 

  Munguiko Muliri, Ramadhan (University of Pretoria, 2024-10-22)

  Since its independence, the Democratic Republic of Congo has endured decades of conflicts and instability. These conflicts, fueled by ethnic tensions, political instability and human rights abuses and violations, have led ...
• The role of civil society in realising racial and social justice for the Creoles in Mauritius through transitional justice processes 

  Jolicoeur, Marie Rebecca (University of Pretoria, 2024-10-23)

  In 2009, Mauritius set up a Truth and Justice Commission to investigate the effects of slavery and colonialism on Mauritian society and aim at achieving social justice and unity. From the emancipation period till now, the ...
• The obligation to respect the right to assembly in Kenya 

  Kadima, Cedric (University of Pretoria, 2024-10-15)

  In a 2023 report, the Kenyan National Human Rights Commission (KNHRC) referred to an outright assault on Article 37 of the Constitution on the right to assemble, demonstrate and picket. Also, in 2024, State authorities in ...

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