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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Centre for Human Rights) by Title
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)The study aims at showing how the African human rights system provides protection to its people, while trying to assess how effective the system is. The study attempts to show the relevance of the African system as a ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)The eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been described as the ‘rape capital of the world’ due to the severity and brutality of sexual violence that Congolese women experience. Sexual violence as a ...
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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, 2019)The analysis undertaken provides a comparison between the Namibian Abortion and Sterilization Act 2 of 1975 and the South African Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act 92 of 1996. Given the unique history of both countries, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006)Examines the state of academic freedom in Africa and the extent to which it is protected. Focuses on how the African Commission can adopt an interpretation of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)This research critically analyse the existing international intellectual property regime with regard to protection of Genetic Resources (GRs) and Traditional Knowledge (TK) in respect of developing countries. It further ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)The study was motivated by studies which have revealed that teenage pregnancy, maternal mortality and unsafe abortion are high in Lesotho. The purpose of the study was to examine whether or not lack of access to emergency ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Sexual violence is prevalent in Lesotho. However, all Catholic health facilities deny survivors of rape access to emergency contraception. As a result, some survivors have experienced unplanned pregnancies and illegal and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Melanin deficiency in persons with albinism predisposes them to significant health risks. Persons with albinism have varying degrees of low vision, and skin cancer has been identified as the primary cause of morbidity and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Locus standi is a Latin word for standing. Traditionally, it implies that a litigant must have sufficient interest to apply to the court for the enforcement of the right of another person, challenge the actions of the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Parents, especially mothers with intellectual disabilities, are at a disproportionately high risk of their children being removed from their care by child protection authorities for alleged child neglect – on the assumption ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011/10/30)Every person is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in international human rights instruments without distinction of any kind: this includes race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010)Issues of access to land and realisation of land rights have always existed in Uganda as women are considered to be potential land owners. Such rights usually have to do with the rights of individuals to particular plots ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2009)The study investigates the impediments caused by criminalisation of abortion in cases of forced pregnancy as a result of rape. It focuses on the premise that restrictive abortion laws and practices in such cases has ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006)"In response to President Kabah's request of June 2000, the United Nations Security Council called on the Secretary-General to negotiate an agreement with the government of Sierra Leone for the creation of a special court ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)This thesis addresses accountability for mass atrocities. It presents a case study of Uganda that has undergone a two-decade conflict between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) insurgent group and the national army, the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021-10-27)Extrajudicial killings, excessive use of force and violence by the Ghanaian police and military have become prevalent in Ghana and during the enforcement of COVID 19 directives, this was not any different. This research ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007)The key research question explored in this study is: can a state attain its national economic development objectives and at the same time advance the rights of indigenous groups? Examines the tensions and prospects of the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is a trade arrangement scheme between the United States of America and eligible sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. It offers nonreciprocal preferential treatment over 7000 ...
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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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