Human rights became a global issue after the atrocity and barbaric genocide unleashed on over six million Jews, Sinti, and Romani (Gypsies), homosexuals, persons with disabilities and the 'Negro' (blacks) during the second ...

The Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights of adolescent girls, including the right to comprehensive sexuality education, have been spelled out with increasing clarity and urgency by the Treaty Monitoring Bodies of international ...

The United Nations, states and regional organisations have spent invaluable time and resources to maintain international peace and security in a largely anarchical international system, owing to armed conflicts between ...

Enacted after a protracted review process characterised by many false starts, tensions and at times violence, the Constitution of Kenya 2010 envisions a radical break from a politically repressive past. It envisages extensive ...

Child sexual abuse is a violation of children?s rights to be protected from all forms of violence, exploitation and abuse. This is provided for by the Convention on the Rights of a Child (CRC) and the African Charter on ...

This thesis analyses the role of gender budgeting in implementing the obligation to provide resources to realise women's human rights in Africa. It uses the Southern African Development Community's (SADC) guidelines on ...

A discussion on visibility of lesbian women creates an opportunity to understand what it means to Zimbabwean lesbian identifying women to be 'lesbian' and how that identity is visibilised or invisibilised depending on ...

The problem identified in this thesis is the haphazard methodology that features in constitutional application to the South African common law of delict. Conventionally, the Constitution is said to apply either 'directly', ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1960, with its emphasis on protection and promotion of human rights, signalled a new path for the likely achievement of equality, democracy, and world peace. .However, ...