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Browsing Research Articles (Centre for Human Rights) by Type "Postprint Article"
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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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(Routledge, 2022)A child’s right to grow up with its parents is presented in articles 9 and 25 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of a Child, respectively. South ...
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(Edinburgh University Press, 2007-03)No abstract available
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(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), one of the spin-offs of the African development framework, NEPAD, offers a unique approach to the monitoring of agreed norms of political, economic, and corporate governance in ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2012)A fundamental tenet of modern constitutionalism is that nobody, regardless of his status is above the law. Extensive powers conferred on African presidents in the independence constitutions, reinforced by ineffective ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2013)Apartheid is a loaded term; saturated with history and emotion. It conjures up images and memories of discrimination, oppression, and brutality; indulgence, privilege, and pretension; racism, resistance, and, ultimately, ...
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(Routledge, 2014)The last decade has seen the judiciary’s legitimacy come under increasing scrutiny as more and more sensitive and politically charged battles are fought in the courts. These have not only placed constitutional adjudicators ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2019-10)Woman-to-woman marriage is a form of customary marriage between two women, predominantly found in Africa. These customary marriages have been and to some extent still are conducted by various communities across Africa, ...
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(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014-02)Most African states see permission of unconventional sexuality and recognition of same-sex marriages as “deviant” in relation to the traditional sex roles of women and men. States have invoked justifications such as ...
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(Routledge, 2020)This article explores the interaction between the best interests of the child and the child’s right not to be detained except as a measure of last resort. It examines the normative framework governing the scope and functions ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2023-06)The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) established a reporting process to monitor compliance. Despite its shortcomings, this process provides an ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2016-06)Since the return to democratic governance in 1999, violent conflicts around identities including religion, ethnicity, indigene/settler differentiation and resource control remain a challenge to peace in Nigeria. Thus ...
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(Sage, 2017-02)Methods training is typically cordoned off into specific, designated courses and is often consequently isolated from the content of the topics we study. As a result of this separation, methods may appear abstract or ...
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(Edinburgh University Press, 2013)Central to the discourse on disability is the question of systemic disadvantage, characterised by the discrimination, and often complete exclusion, of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in society. In an effort to address ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2018-10)Given the need for legislation to protect internally displaced persons, African Heads of State and Government adopted the Convention on the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa in Kampala in ...
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(2023-09-29, 2022)This article compares second-order state compliance in respect of regional and sub-regional human rights tribunals (HRTs) in Africa. Using as its unit of analysis the compliance orders issued by these HRTs, the article ...
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(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010-01)Islamic Law is not new and cannot be the state law of any state, whether Muslims are the majority or minority of the population. This view does not dispute the religious authority of Islamic Law for Muslims, which exists ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2020-10)This Article explores the juridical implications of indigenous peoples’ right to legal capacity in the Inter-American system for cases involving the same right of persons with disabilities within that system and beyond. ...
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(American Psychological Association, 2021-08)For persons with severe communication disabilities to be given access to justice, transformative equality and court accommodations should be made a global human rights priority as articulated in Article 13 of the Convention ...
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Down on the farm and barefoot in the kitchen: farm labour and domestic labour as forms of servitude (Taylor & Francis, 2007-10)This article evaluates the claim that working conditions for farm workers and domestic workers in South Africa can be analysed in terms of the constitutional prohibition against servitude. Recent research and statistics ...
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