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(University of Pretoria, 2018)This thesis sets out, against a historical background, to establish the legal status of woman-towoman marriages in contemporary Kenya. The phenomenon of woman-to-woman marriage is a form of African customary marriage between ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Xenophobia is a rampant problem in South Africa; it manifests itself in many ways and impedes the full enjoyment and protection of human rights for all migrants in the country. Xenophobia has deep roots and causes. One of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Since the enactment of Nigeria’s Same Sex (Marriage) Prohibition Act of 2013, advocacy for the protection of sexual and gender minorities in Nigeria has grown rapidly. This advocacy often toes a line of legal formalism, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2001)"This dissertation seeks firstly to re-examine the merits of the competing philosophies on the role of amnesties in transitional justice. It seeks in particular to investigate the currently popular notion that justice is ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2009-11-25)The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Commission), the monitoring mechanism of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Charter), takes decisions on individual communications submitted ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The objective of this study is to analyze the compatibility of Mozambican legislation concerning HIV and AIDS (Law 5/2002 of 5 February 2002, Law 23/2007 of 1 August 2007, Law 12/2009 of 12 March 2009 and Law 19/2014 of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)This study argues that the inflexible and generalizing character of article 30(d) of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child impedes, in some cases, the realization of the best interests of children of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)The mini-dissertation appraises the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in securing sexual and reproductive rights in Kenya. It seeks to establish the measures that have been put in place by Kenya to implement the ?accepted? ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The Refugees Act 130 of 1998 enabled South Africa to treat asylum seekers in a humanitarian and dignified manner. However, more than 20 years into democracy, the refugee status determination system, which is the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014-11)This thesis investigates the compatibility of a crucial aspect of Sudanese criminal justice, namely, the compatibility of the right to a fair trial with two main sources of this right: international human rights law and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The 21st century has witnessed a radical change in the status of sexual minorities, the world over, with this change having a profound impact in the global North, in particular. A series of landmark United Nations, regional ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The use of strategic litigation (SL) to stimulate social change in Common Law Africa in respect of the manifestly controversial issue of equality for lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) persons in countries that experience ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This mini-dissertation is a critical analysis of the judgment in ND v Attorney General and the Registrar of National Registration, decided by the Botswana High Court. The analysis is conducted with a view to making an ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-05-10)Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-09-12)This mini-dissertation relates to the post-conflict period in the DRC, Rwanda and Sierra Leone, juxtaposing the rights-based and interest-based approaches to conflict management and resolution. The study is premised on the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-02-03)This thesis examines the interpretation of section 35(5) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, which empowers the courts to exclude unconstitutionally obtained evidence in criminal trials. A generous ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)The thesis argues that there is a common core conception of childhood in traditional African communities and that this understanding of childhood is different from the image of childhood in the Convention on the Rights of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013-08-27)In Cameroon, as in many other African countries, there is a law prohibiting same-sex relationships. The relevant provision, Article 347bis of the Cameroonian Penal Code (Law No 65-LF-24 of 12 November and Law No 67-LF-1 ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-07-20)The study undertaken is concerned with the reformulation of the common law crime of rape from a juridical and socio-psychological perspective. It is based on the premise that the common law definition of rape is insufficient. ...
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