Browsing by Author "Arstein-Kerslake, Anna"
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Austerity as retrogression: The rights to adequate housing and social security in the United Kingdom and Ireland
Shokar, Poonam (NUI Galway, 2024-02-13)Austerity measures adopted by State Parties since 2008 had a detrimental impact on social housing and welfare, deteriorating the enjoyment of the rights to housing and social security under the International Covenant ... -
Migrant domestic workers, labour exploitation and anti-trafficking laws in Uganda and Saudi Arabia: Moving beyond exceptionalism
Nabasitu, Daisy (NUI Galway, 2024-04-11)This thesis focuses on the trafficking of Ugandan migrant domestic workers for labour exploitation to Saudi Arabia. Trafficking for labour exploitation is a widespread challenging phenomenon in the migration discourse ... -
Restoring voice to people: realizing the right to equal recognition before the law of people with Cognitive Disabilities
Arstein-Kerslake, Anna (2015-07-25)This thesis examines the right to equal recognition before the law guaranteed in Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). It begins by providing definitions and ... -
The right to legal agency: domination, disability and the protections of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Arstein-Kerslake, Anna; Flynn, Eilionóir (Cambridge University Press, 2017-02-15)Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has created a revolution in legal-capacity law reform. It protects the right to exercise legal agency for people with disabilities with more clarity ... -
State intervention in the lives of people with disabilities: the case for a disability-neutral framework
Flynn, Eilionóir; Arstein-Kerslake, Anna (Cambridge University Press, 2017-02-15)People with disabilities continue to experience a disproportionately high level of state intervention in their private lives. Many disabled people's organisations have long sought to challenge this discriminatory approach ...