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The Human Rights Act 1998: a bridge between citizenship and justice?
... The Government’s aim therefore is to build a modern civic society based on the basic values of individual worth and equality of opportunity for all. These values are reflected directly in the ECHR, which through the ...
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Welfare, anti austerity and gender : new territory and new sources of hostility for the Human Rights Act
... The aftermath of the global financial crisis has brought about a variety of austerity measures including unprecedented cuts to the existing welfare system in the UK. Simultaneously there has been increased condemnation, ...
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Survivorship and Article 8 of the Human Rights Act 1998
... the Human Rights Act 1998 and the incorporation into domestic law of article 8 and article 10 of the ...competing rights ought to be approached and ...
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The Human Rights Act in the shadow of the European Convention: are copyist's errors allowed?
... the rights guaranteed in the European Convention on Human Rights [ECHR] and those enforceable under the Human Rights Act 1998 [HRA] will appear startling to international ...
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Twenty years later - assessing the significance of the Human Rights Act 1998 to residential possession proceedings
... Abstract: This paper analyses the significance from several contextual perspectives of the higher courts’ application of the provisions of the Human Rights Act 1998 to domestic housing law. The ...
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Judicial Interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003: Reflections and Analysis
... judicial review proceedings, requiring a public authority to exercise its statutory powers in compliance with its obligations under section 3. See de Londras and Kelly, European Convention on Human Rights ...
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Legal Recognition of Gender Change for Transsexual Persons in the United Kingdom: The Human Rights Act 1998 and "Compatibility" with European Human Rights Law
... Since it is for the Member States to determine the conditions under which legal recognition is given to the change of gender of a person in R.'s situation-as the European [r] ...
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A structural, institutionally sensitive model of proportionality and deference under the Human Rights Act 1998
... less rights-restrictive alternative and if one can be found that fits the words of the statute (even if they are stretched) then the court can implement that alternative ...less rights-restrictive measure ...
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International Journal of Movement Education and Social Science
... Although Human Rights Commissions are not a solution for all problems in a ...National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) was established in India through the adoption of the Protection of ...
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Discrimination in the armed forces: 10 years on from the abolition of the ban on homosexuals serving in the UK military
... The Human Rights Act (HRA) was passed in 1998 that enabled the UK courts to develop human rights judgments based on the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) and the ...
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Gender and Human Rights: The Girl Child and Violence
... The girl-child has been traded, bought, and sold across national borders as commodities to be put to use as prostitutes or slaves or merely sold to make profit. Despite the worrisome situation of girl-child violence ...
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Gendered-Caste Discrimination, Human Rights Education, and the Enforcement of the Prevention of Atrocities Act in India
... of human rights education as a potential remedy can accentuate this tendency, or as Spivak (1992) puts it, “The most frightening thing about imperialism, its long-term toxic effect, ...
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The USA Patriot Act: Impact on Freedoms and Civil Liberties
... Patriot Act is the unprecedented and dangerous expansion of the presidential ...Patriot Act?, Glenn Greenwald argues that it was through President Bush’s authorization that the National Security Agency ...
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Dealing with incidents of serious disciplinary problems amongst learners: A comparative study between South Africa and selected countries
... legal rights of the accused, including those stemming from the principles of natural ...These rights include the right to a fair trial, to be considered innocent until proven guilty, the right to be heard ...
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Information Guide: Moldova February 2017
... Moldova: Centre for Human Rights: Ombudsman Human Rights Legal Framework: Moldova Human Rights Centre: About Moldova United Nations Human Rights: Office of the High Commissioner of Human[r] ...
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Human Rights Cinema: The Act of Killing and the Act of Watching
... The Act of Killing follows the present-day lives of some of the perpetrators of the massacres, notably Anwar Congo, Adi Zulkadry and Herman Koto. The protagonists had been small time gangsters in the city of ...
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Editorial: On critique, dissensus and human rights literacies
... (non)realised rights and relating violence indicate a need for the global rethink of citizenship, responsibilities, rights and ...and act for ...of human rights in education, ...
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Escaping the Ivory Tower: Legal Research on Human Rights from a Critical Perspective
... of human rights (Jensen, 2016) suggested using new approaches to their definition and analysis, critical theories can and should play an important role in this development in order to preserve the ability ...
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GLOBALISATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS: HELPS OR HINDRANCE
... of human rights abuses. On the other hand, improvements in human rights are sometimes attributed to the spread of liberal ideas and movements, which is one of the key dimensions of ...say ...
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At the Margin of Educational Policy: Sámi/Indigenous Peoples in the Swedish National Curriculum 2011
... conditions for equal value to Christian tradition and Western humanism. From a Sámi Indigenous perspective the written curriculum directs the interpretation that generosity, tolerance, responsibility and sense of justice ...
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