Browsing University of Galway Theses by Author "Darcy, Shane"
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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 ... -
Deepening democracy: Participation under international human rights law
McMurry, Nicholas (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 ... -
Extraterritorial abduction under the framework of international law: Does irregular mean unlawful?
McDermott, Helen (2014-05-09)Do the interests of justice and the fight against terrorism justify extraterritorial abductions by states of persons they wish to interrogate or submit to trial? From the kidnapping of Eichmann in Argentina in 1960 to the ... -
Human trafficking and China: Past and present
Ling, Bonny (2014-06)The idea of human trafficking as a new and distinct problem, a modern form of slavery that entraps individuals without agency in their own countries and abroad, is a common perception that has popularised the usage of the ... -
The Relationship between Refugee Exclusion Law and International Law: Convergence or Divergence?
Rikhof, Joseph (2011-05-30)While asylum as a concept has been known since ancient times, persons with a criminal background have always been treated with suspicion and depending on the time and place would either be granted asylum in a limited form ... -
Revolution and international criminal law: The extraordinary chambers in the courts of Cambodia
Wang, Jia (NUI Galway, 2020-05-08)This doctoral thesis examines whether and how a context of revolution impacts the application of international criminal law through a case study of the revolutionary context during the Democratic Kampuchea era in Cambodia, ... -
The right to food and the world trade organization’s rules on agriculture: conflicting, compatible, or complementary?
Ferguson, Rhonda (2016-06-29)This dissertation explores the relationship between the right to food and the agriculture rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO). It examines whether or not States’ obligations (as well as rights, permissions and ... -
The Role of the European Union in Ensuring Respect for International Humanitarian Law
Breslin, Andrea (2011-09-23)This research examines the role of the EU and its Member States in contributing to furthering the aims of international humanitarian law and increasing its implementation and effectiveness through its external promotion ... -
Sri Lanka and the United Nations. A human rights case study
Ananthavinayagan, Thamil Venthan (2018-02-20)The thesis analyses Sri Lanka’s engagement with the United Nations human rights machinery and assesses whether there has been any impact on the human rights infrastructure and situation in Sri Lanka because of this engagement. ...