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Intersectional Human Rights At Cedaw: Promises Transmissions And Impacts, Amanda Barbara Allen Dale
Intersectional Human Rights At Cedaw: Promises Transmissions And Impacts, Amanda Barbara Allen Dale
PhD Dissertations
Starting from the premise that international human rights law is not a neutral fact, this dissertation is a critical exploration of the promises, transmissions and impacts of intersectionality as an approach to gender protections in international human rights law. I begin with a definition of intersectionality at the individual claimant and jurisprudential levels, as an approach to anti-discrimination and equality law that attempts to move beyond static conceptions and fixed identities of discriminated subjects, and, based on Kimberl Crenshaws powerful metaphor of a traffic intersection, delineates the flow of discrimination as multi-directional, and injury as seldom attributable to a single …
Economic Wrongs And Social Rights: Analyzing The Impact Of Systemic Corruption On Realization Of Economic And Social Rights In Kenya And The Potential Redress Offered By The Optional Protocol To The International Covenant On Economic, Social Rights And Cultural Rights, Caroline Omari Lichuma
The Transnational Human Rights Review
No abstract provided.
A Right To Universal Health Coverage In Resource-Constrained Nations? Towards A Blueprint For Better Health Outcomes, Uchechukwu Ngwaba
A Right To Universal Health Coverage In Resource-Constrained Nations? Towards A Blueprint For Better Health Outcomes, Uchechukwu Ngwaba
The Transnational Human Rights Review
Universal health coverage, as conceived by the World Health Organization (WHO) and adopted in the programmatic framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is a clarion call for states to strengthen their health financing systems to avoid catastrophic and impoverishing health spending. However, the framing of the goals of universal health coverage fails to take account of underlying determinants of health and appears to abandon decades of health rights scholarship and jurisprudence. This scholarship and jurisprudence, although not entirely free from disagreements and shortcomings, is argued to offer a better framework for universal health coverage when strengthened with the paradigm …
Deprivation Of Nationality As A Counter-Terrorism Tool: A Comparative Analysis Of Canadian And Dutch Legislation, Tom Boekestein
Deprivation Of Nationality As A Counter-Terrorism Tool: A Comparative Analysis Of Canadian And Dutch Legislation, Tom Boekestein
The Transnational Human Rights Review
No abstract provided.
Stewart V. Elk Valley: The Case Of The Cocaine-Using Coal Miner, Faisal Bhabha
Stewart V. Elk Valley: The Case Of The Cocaine-Using Coal Miner, Faisal Bhabha
All Papers
It has for some time been settled under section 15 of the Charter and within anti-discrimination code definitions that "disability" includes "addictions". Labour boards and human rights tribunals have long accepted that "alcohol and drug addiction are illnesses and are physical and mental disabilities for the purposes of the Human Rights Code. There are no reasons to consider them any less an illness or disability than any other serious affliction."' The shift in expert consensus led to notable changes to the key American diagnostic instrument, the DSM 5, adopted in 2013 with a completely revised approach to addictions. What is …
Report Of The Independent Expert On Human Rights And International Solidarity, Obiora C. Okafor
Report Of The Independent Expert On Human Rights And International Solidarity, Obiora C. Okafor
Commissioned Reports, Studies and Public Policy Documents
This is the first report prepared by Obiora Chinedu Okafor in his capacity as Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity. In the report, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 35/3, the Independent Expert sets out his vision for the mandate, summarizes the work undertaken so far by his predecessors, outlines his objectives and methods of work, and discusses possible thematic priorities for the mandate.