accountability and rights (PRILA)
Can Socioeconomic Rights Ameliorate The Accountability Deficit Of The Nigerian State?
... human rights law and international humanitarian law at Obafemi Awolowo ...socioeconomic rights can ameliorate the accountability deficit of public governance in ...
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Accountability: State Capacity in Upholding the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Malaysia
... Abstract. There is no proper mechanism for monitoring the effectiveness of indigenous legislation and evaluating its application in the day-to-day practice of the public administration and society. This paper firstly ...
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Essays on financial accountability of human rights organizations
... The accountability of HROs is closely related to significant phenomena of human rights concerns and problems and the emergence over a long period of a “rights-based” approach to ...Human ...
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"Accountability Criteria and Remedies under Tort Law for Victims of Human Rights Abuses"
... human rights accountability and environmental ...human rights and environmental law, given the diversity of legal structures, traditions, and approaches around the different jurisdictions in the ...
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Responsibility and Accountability of States, Transnational Corporations, and Individuals in the Field of Human Rights to Social Development: A Critique
... Gutto, Shadrack (1984) "Responsibility and Accountability of States, Transnational Corporations, and Individuals in the Field of Human Rights to Social Development: A Critique," [r] ...
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Accountability of International NGOs: Human Rights Violations in Healthcare Provision in Developing Countries and the Effectiveness of Current Measures
... This paper will first provide a case study analysis of the healthcare cam- paigns funded by the Gates Foundation that resulted in human rights claims. The case study analysis will first provide background ...
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Addressing impunity through State accountability? A study on responsibility for human rights violations committed by UN peacekeepers
... human rights are universal and should be enjoyed equally by all ...human rights is stated in, inter alia, Article 55 and Article 56 of the UN Charter, in the Preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human ...
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Kiobel Case: Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses
... In 1980, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held in Filartiga v Pena Irala that the ATS conferred jurisdiction for violations of universally accepted human rights norms committed by actors vested with official ...
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International organisations and anti-terrorist sanctions: no accountability for human rights violations?
... terrorism threatens national security. Analogous criteria should arguably apply when terrorism constitutes a threat to international security, as authoritatively determined by a UNSC resolution. There is no substantial ...
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Human Rights Obligations and Accountability in the Face of Climate Change
... Notwithstanding this general reluctance to address the issue of violation of human rights law (as had been the case during the shorter discussion on human rights and climate change d[r] ...
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Corporate accountability for human rights violations:road to a binding instrument on business and human rights
... human rights generally. The universal acceptance in principle of human rights by States of all political stripes and their invocation at domestic and international levels, coupled with the active ...
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Promoting Accountability for Human Rights Abuses
... human rights victims because Marcos’s acts of torture and murder were not “official acts,” but were instead acts undertaken for his personal benefit, to maintain his hold on power and facilitate his efforts to ...
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Accountability in Government and Realization of Human Rights in Botswana
... Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights and the Optional Protocol to the latter instrument and the Convention [r] ...
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Thesis
... human rights activists, who over the last thirty years have fought for these trials to take ...corporate accountability into its already extensive transitional justice ...
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UN accountability for violations of human rights
... human rights, although th e extent o f this capacity varies from one administration to the ...exclusive rights o f exploitation, unencum bered and free from all debts and charges o f any kind’ ...the ...
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Explaining disappearances as a tool of political terror
... human rights norms (Watkin, 2004), raised the bar of accountability and the potential (criminal, political, legitimacy) costs of violence, pushing those seeking power to find covert means to rid themselves ...
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Editorial
... Haram; Accountability of International NGOs: Human Rights Violations in Healthcare Provision in Developing Countries and the Effectiveness of Current Measures; Theoretical Underpinnings of Trust Investment ...
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Some Transparency, No Accountability: The Use of Oil Revenue in Angola and Its Impact on Human Rights
... human rights impact of a government’s reliance on natural resource ...Human Rights Watch believes that a country’s substantial reliance on natural resource revenues can have a negative impact on human ...
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The responses of Liberal Democracies to the torture of citizens : a comparative study
... human rights, and has helped it to overcome the traditional judicial reluctance to act in cases involving national security (Ip 2010: 41-42; see also Shephard 2010: ...elevated rights consciousness of the ...
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The Role of accountability in combating corruption in Local Government Authorities in Tanzania: Case Study of Mbozi District Council
... their rights to hold leaders accountable rated at the mean of ...that accountability is ensured when the actions and decisions of public officials are subject to oversight scrutiny and that it is enhanced ...
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