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The Right to Health Care of Terminally Ill Inmates in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
In South Africa, prison authorities are not primarily concerned with the health of the prison population. This is evidenced by inter alia: the vast number of complaints regarding health care received by the Judicial ...
Statelessness and the rights of Children in Kenya and South Africa: A Human Rights Perspective
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Stateless children and those at risk of becoming stateless has been an ongoing
issue both on a domestic level as well as internationally. In many African
countries children face discriminatory and arbitrary nationality ...
Analysing human rights accountability towards ending preventable maternal morbidity and mortality in Uganda
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
The persistence of preventable Maternal Morbidity and Mortality (hereafter MMM), in the developing world, despite ground breaking technological and scientific advances, is unacceptable. There is no cause of death and ...
Towards effective Multilateral protection of traditional knowledge within the global intellectual property framework
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Traditional Knowledge (TK) has previously been considered a 'subject' in the public domain,
unworthy of legal protection. However, the last few decades have witnessed increased
discussions on the need to protect the knowledge ...
Bring back our girls: A human rights analysis of child abductions by Boko Haram
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
As the world evolves new perils emerge which pose a significant threat to human and child
rights, it is imperative that the protection of these rights is prioritised. Human rights can be
defined as the rights that every ...
Assessing the impact of the 2016 constitution on intergovernmental relations in Zambia.
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Decentralisation is the transfer of power, responsibilities, capacities and resources from the
centre to the sub-units of the government. The main objective is to foster the capacity of local
government to deliver services ...
Assessing the constitutionality of section 56A of the Local Government: Municipal Systems Amendment Act, 2011 (Act 7 of 2011)
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
In the South African local government context, municipalities are operationally governed through two arms: the political arm and the administrative arm. Both arms work simultaneously in ensuring that the municipality ...
The need to recalibrate the Africa trade facilitation legal framework to achieve an enduring intra-African trade
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
It is necessary to improve on Africa poor and stagnated share of the global trade and to attract
bigger share of the global investments funds to meet the growing developmental challenges.
The bottlenecks at the borders ...
Human rights and international environmental law: Towards the development of an international environmental right?
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
The global state of the environment is deteriorating daily because of challenges posed by environmental degradation, including climate change. In recognition of the mounting global environmental crisis and its detrimental ...
A critique of the jurisprudence of the African commission regarding evidence in relation to human rights violations: A need for reform?
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
The success of any human rights system at the domestic, regional or international level requires an adequate development of the normative, institutional and jurisprudential frameworks. With regard to the African Commission, ...