Browsing by Subject "Human Rights"
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Austerity as retrogression: The rights to adequate housing and social security in the United Kingdom and Ireland
(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 ... -
Breaking down barriers to reception rights for unaccompanied migrant children in Europe: Does intersectional discrimination matter?
(NUI Galway, 2023-10-10)Introduction ‘States should ensure that children in the context of international migration are treated first and foremost as children’ 1 Although the exact number cannot be known, recent figures indicate that there are ... -
‘Can the feminist movement provide legal services to refugees?’ Feminist lawyering, women refugees and gender based violence in urban Uganda
(NUI Galway, 2024-04-03)‘Can the feminist movement provide legal services to refugees?’ This is the question that this thesis seeks to answer through an assessment of the applicability of feminist lawyering to address gender-based violence ... -
‘Cé leis í?’ Determining the legal position of the ‘Surrogate’ in a surrogacy relationship through the Reproductive Justice Framework: A proposed model for Ireland.
(NUI Galway, 2019-05-29)This thesis asks the question: Cé leis í? (Who is she?) This question refers to the uniquely Irish kinship structure which recognises complex filiation structures. Similarly, advances in assisted human reproduction which ... -
Challenging behaviour, Non Violent Resistance (NVR) and parents/carers in a time of COVID 19
(UK Editorial Collective, 2020-06-03)Thirteen year old Marie s parents (not her real name), rang their social worker as their daughter s behaviour had worsened since the COVID 19 pandemic closed schools and their workplaces. Marie was fighting with them much ... -
Civil war in El Salvador and the origins of rights-based humanitarianism
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-06-03)This article traces the global humanitarian sector s late twentieth-century embrace of human rights to the brutal civil conflict in El Salvador in the 1980s. Drawing on evidence from NGOs in three Anglophone states (Britain, ... -
Conceptualising domestic violence against women: Between gender-based universal human rights duty and gender-blind national responses
(NUI Galway, 2021-03-22)Despite widespread international acknowledgement of domestic violence against women and a plethora of governmental commitments to eliminate it, the issue remains as prevalent today as it was at the beginning of the domestic ... -
Deepening democracy: Participation under international human rights law
(2017-09-30)This thesis examines the principle of participation, through which persons may have a direct role in decisions affecting them. This is said to be an integral principle of the international human rights framework, but thus ... -
Developing a new framework for human rights in older age: Exploration, interpretation and application
(NUI Galway, 2020-04-05)While there is growing attention on the rights of older persons and the feasibility of a new treaty, the conceptual basis for a new United Nations (UN) convention has not yet been clearly articulated. This thesis addresses ... -
European human rights ‘Grey Zones’: The application of the European Convention on Human Rights in contested European territories
(NUI Galway, 2021-03-11)This thesis is concerned with the effectiveness of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) system in areas of contested statehood — so-called ‘grey zones’ — within the Council of Europe (CoE) region. The problematique ... -
The Exhumation of Mass Graves by International Criminal Tribunals: Nuremberg, the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda
(2011-10-28)This thesis is a study on the practice of mass grave exhumation in the context of international criminal law, and more specifically as employed by international criminal tribunals. The primary institutions of focus are the ... -
Fundamental Rights Protection in the European Union post Lisbon Treaty
(Fondation Robert Schuman, 2010-06-14)With the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty last December, the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights has finally become a legally binding and core element of the Union's legal order. This is not, however, the sole major ... -
Gender equality in UN peacekeeping: Fact or fiction? A review of the implementation of UNSCR 1325 via gender mainstreaming in three UN operations
(NUI Galway, 2022-04-26)The year 2020 marked the 20th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325, on Women, Peace and Security (WPS). The resolution recognised the invaluable role women play in the prevention and resolution of ... -
Human dignity as a bar to bio-patentability in European Patent Law: An exposé and a novel reform paradigm
(NUI Galway, 2023-10-04)This research addresses a gap found in the literature which is that there is a lack of coherence about the standard of the fundamental, but under-defined, concept of human dignity in European patent law. This problem ... -
Human rights compliant decision-making in child protection: Lessons for Ireland from a comparative socio-legal case study analysis of Ireland, England and Germany
(NUI Galway, 2021-08-01)Children have a right to be protected from harm and the State is obliged to take measures to vindicate that right. The State may intervene in family life by restricting parental rights, removing a child into care or placing ... -
International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law: From Separation to Complementary Application
(2012-05-23)This study analyses the interplay between international human rights and humanitarian law, with the aim of clarifying their concurrent application. Part I provides an understanding of each legal framework and of their ... -
Is it time for a World Court of Human Rights?
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Legal remedies, truth recovery and illegal adoptions: The limits and transformative potential of human rights law and practice
(NUI Galway, 2019-11-06)This thesis seeks to address two related research questions. First, to consider and assess the Irish State’s approach and legal responses to historical practices of illegal adoption – how are such legal responses affected ... -
Migrant women, coercive control and intimate partner violence: Access to remedies in Ireland and Spain
(NUI Galway, 2024-01-31)The concept of coercive control has been increasingly used in law reform and policy making in Europe since 2015 as part of states’ actions against domestic violence and has been justified as an advancement of women’s ...