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Theses and Dissertations (Centre for Human Rights): Recent submissions
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(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. ...
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(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 ...
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(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, ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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. ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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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(University of Pretoria, 2024-10-23)This study examines the adjudication of sexual minority asylum claims in South Africa, exploring how challenges plaguing the adjudication process often leads to rejection of refugee claims based on sexual orientation. It ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-10-17)The right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health (the right to health) is contained in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and its underlying determinants ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024)Despite the progressive decisions by the African Court and Commission on indigenous peoples in Kenya, their rights continue to be violated. Notably, Kenya has not implemented the Ogiek and Endorois decisions by the African ...
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