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Centre for Human Rights: Recent submissions
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(Cogitatio Press, 2024-09-12)Children, a unique yet marginalized social group, hold immense potential for driving meaningful social and environmental change, both in their current lives and as future stewards of the planet. However, their significant ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-10)Albinism is broadly considered a rare disease and is estimated to affect between one in 17 000 and one in 20 000 people worldwide.
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(Juta Law, 2024)This article examines the use of soft law for digital rights protection in African countries. Focusing particularly on the Declaration of Principles on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa, 2019 ...
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(Wiley, 2024-09)Historically, countries have primarily relied on policy rather than legislation to implement Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response systems (MPDSR). However, evidence shows significant disparities in how ...
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(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2023-10-16)Article 43 of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child mandates state parties to report on their efforts made towards implementing treaty provisions to the African Committee on the Rights and Welfare of ...
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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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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2024-02)This collection of chapters tracks and explains the impact of the nine core United Nations human rights treaties in 20 selected countries, four from each of the five UN regions. Researchers based in each of these countries ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2024)Article 2 of the 1984 Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT) obligates states to take measures to prevent torture. While many states have provisions that prohibit ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2024)Albinism is typically misunderstood, resulting in myths and misconceptions about the condition in different parts of the world. This study explores the misconceptions about albinism in Ghana through the lens of lived ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-07-07)In the midst of a growing concern for digital security globaly, there is a move towards reforms of legal instruments. however, the improvements are not addressing the root issues in digital insecurity, and thus the law ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-04-30)The 1996 South African Constitution and section 26 of the Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation Act guarantee the protection of persons who live in South Africa against unlawful eviction or ...
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(Unisa Press, 2023-12)Climate litigation underscores the critical role of judicial systems in addressing the legal complexities that emanate from global climate governance. The lead- up to and the aftermath of the Paris Agreement saw the ...
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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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(University of Pretoria, 2024-01-24)The prohibition on torture is an essential aspect of international law that applies universally and is considered a peremptory norm of international law (jus cogens). The explicit prohibition of torture is outlined in ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-12-13)Traditional and online media share the contemporary media landscape in Kenya. Both media types contended with diverse challenges, including the political economy of the media, some restrictive media laws and law enforcement ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-07-11)This thesis examines the limitations on migrant children's access to primary education in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, with a focus on South Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-07-02)The absence of legal recognition of intersex persons in Nigeria is a discriminatory practice, contravening human rights principles that the Nigerian state ought to protect. Legal recognition for intersex persons occurs ...
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(Unisa Press, 2023-12)This contribution examines the extent to which the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system takes into consideration the rights and interests of local African communities affected by investment disputes but are not ...
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(Harvard University Press, 2023-06)Self-managed abortion holds particular promise for revolutionizing people’s access to quality reproductive care in Africa, where the burden of abortion-related mortality is the highest globally and where abortion remains ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2023-09-06)Despite scientific and technological advances in the field of assistive technology (AT) for peoplewith visual impairment (VI), technological designs are frequently based on a poor understanding of the physical and social ...
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