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Human Rights, Globalization and the Rule of Law : Friends, Foes or Family?
Kinley, David - 2008
The universalization of human rights norms and the global liberalization of corporate and commercial endeavor are two especially conspicuous players on the globalization stage. Both, to some extent, rely on the notion of the Rule of Law to promote their ends, though they rely on different...
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Finance, Rule of Law and Human Rights in China
Vanhullebusch, Matthias - 2019
Finance has become an indispensable vehicle for economic development in emerging economies. Such economic progress involves a number of human rights implications which affect financial products, the entitlements of the banking sector itself as well as broad matters of socio-political and...
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Climate Change, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law
Carlarne, Cinnamon Piñon - 2021
Climate change challenges the resiliency and integrity of social and legal systems worldwide. Responding to climate change requires us to think systematically – and ambitiously – about how to engage the rule of law as a tool in efforts to limit the causes and consequences of climate change....
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Lost in Transition? The Anatomy of the Merged African Court of Justice and Human Rights
Juma, Dan - 2009
this is a significant development in establishing institutions to lever human rights protection in Africa, questions have … system of human rights protection in Africa. This article compares the Protocol establishing the new African court with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160432
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Widows, Aids, Health and Human Rights in Africa
von Struensee, Susan - 2021
injustice widows endure throughout Africa, and elsewhere, there is no consensus on the importance of changing the customary … widely accepted are now being challenged in the face of the changing socioeconomic conditions in Africa, flagrant human … economy has been imposed by colonial imperialists, the fact is these changes exist, Africa has been transformed and adaptation …
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The Utility of Cross-Cutting Rights in Enhancing the Justiciability of Socio-Economic Rights of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
Bulto, Takele Soboka - 2012
The degree of justiciability (as well as enforcement) of the socio-economic rights of the African Charter have always played second fiddle to that of the traditional civil and political rights. Over two decades after the coming into force of the Charter, the African Commission has received...
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African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights - Response to the Situation in Libya
Dolidze, Anna V. - 2012
This Insight highlights the relationships, dynamics, and cooperation that led to the African Human Rights Court's Order against Libya in the case African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights v. Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. In particular, it emphasizes the complex...
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'Is Botswana the Miracle of Africa? Democracy, the Rule of Law, and Human Rights Versus Economic Development'
Sarkin, Jeremy - 2013
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COVID-19 palaver : ending rights violations of vulnerable groups in Africa
Amadasun, Solomon - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 134 (2020), pp. 1-2
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Towards reinforcing or contesting the vision of the rule of law?
Senn, Myriam - 2013
The UN Declaration of 24 September 2012 reaffirming the commitment of Heads of State and Government to the Rule of Law reflects the current uneasiness accompanying the application of just the concept. This short paper argues that it is due to discrepancies in its worldwide understanding and to...
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