Browsing Magister Legum - LLM (Public Law and Jurisprudence) by Subject "Human rights"
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Meeting obligations but failing hopes? An investigation into South Africa’s obligation to realise the Human right to sanitation in Rural schools
(University of Western Cape, 2019)In South Africa, notwithstanding 25 years into democracy, the constitutional commitment to socio-economic transformation of post-apartheid South Africa remains unfulfilled and unrealized by the vast majority of its ... -
Minority language rights in Namibia: An international human rights perspective
(University of Western Cape, 2019)Namibia is home to a number of linguistic minorities. According to the 2011 census, the Owambo constitute 49.35 per cent of the population, accounting for almost half of the country’s total population.1 The rest of the ... -
The plight of internally displaced persons (IDPs) during armed conflict: the case of Sudan and Somalia
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)The plight of internally displaced persons (IDPs)in Sudan and Somalia constitutes one of the greatest human tragedy of our time since the end of the Cold War. The concept of IDPs is immense and growing. This research paper ... -
The protection of the right to freedom from torture and extradition in South Africa
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‘Public participation and environmental law: A South African perspective’
(University of Western Cape, 2019)The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa ‘despite being one of the world’s most liberal constitutions, South Africans still have no transparent and participatory mechanisms for deciding democratically on the ... -
Revisiting the role of sub-regional courts in the protection of human rights in Africa
(2009)When the Rome Statute was being drafted, referral of a situation by a state party was thought to have the least potential for making the International Criminal Court (hereinafter referred to as the ICC) operational. It was ... -
The role of human rights lawyers in rights based approach to reduction of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)Sub-Saharan Africa is a region where extreme poverty is prevalent in spite of the regions apparent commitment to the philosophy of human rights, in that all fifty-three countries in the region ratified the African Charter ... -
Safeguarding the right to freedom from torture in Africa: the Robben Island guidelines
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Sexual minority rights in Cameroon
(University of Western Cape, 2012)The objective of this study is to explore the criminalisation of persons based on sexual orientation in Cameroon in light of that country’s international human rights obligation. The study examines the constitution and ... -
Shadows of the past: chances and problems for the Herero in claiming reparations from multinationals for past human rights violations
(University of the Western Cape, 2002)The current situation regarding the accountabilty of transnational corporations, using the lawsuit of the Herero community of Namibia against two German corporations that were involved in the German colonial enterprise ... -
Socio-economic rights in Africa: a critical evaluation of legal protection mechanisms and Implementation strategies
(University of the Western Cape, 2001)There is an emerging broad consensus that civil and political rights on the one hand, and socio-economic rights on the other, are ingenerated and indivisible. Taken together, they embody the cardinal norms which inform ... -
The responsibility to protect in the context of the NATO intervention in Libya in 2011: a human rights analysis
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)The international human rights architecture experienced a shift from states to individual rights within a state. This is mainly informed by the fact that states committed human rights atrocities against their own civilians. ... -
Transitional justice after the military regimes in Nigeria: a failed attempt?
(University of Western Cape, 2013)