Browsing University of Galway Theses by Subject "Human rights"
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Architecture of exclusion: the struggle for land and legitimacy of Palestinians under Israeli law
(2016-10)This research focuses on land law and provides an overview of the right to land under international law, followed by a background of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Subsequently, exploring the underpinning of the land ... -
Article 33 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: a new bridge to bring human rights law to the domestic level and create a dynamic of change
(2015-09-30)This thesis looks at Article 33 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Article 33 requires states to set up a framework, located both within and outside of government, to guide and monitor the ... -
Challenging assumptions of vulnerability: the significance of gender in the work, lives and identities of women human rights defenders
(2018-02-16)In 1998, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognised Human Rights and Fundamental ... -
Diversion: A comparative study of law and policy relating to defendants and offenders with mental health problems and intellectual disability
(2013-11-29)This thesis examines law and policy relating to defendants and offenders with mental health problems and intellectual disability. It is a comparative study of diversion in Ireland, England and Wales, Northern Ireland, ... -
Doing justice to gender diversity: Narratives of progress and the limits of law
(NUI Galway, 2020-06-22)The core question of my doctoral thesis asks what is meant by the recognition of gender in law, and what effects the emergence of a multiplicity of gender identities onto international human rights law forums has had on ... -
Drug control policies and human rights
(2015-01-09)This study examines drug control policy through the prism of human rights norms. Emphasis is placed on identifying and analysing the conflicts that arise between rights protection and drug control. The research presented ... -
Freedom of expression and the contours of political speech in Ethiopia: Lessons from a comparative study
(2017-08-20)The doctoral thesis studies the scope and application of the right to freedom of expression and the contours of political speech in Ethiopia. In particular, the research focuses on two fundamental areas of speech regulation-the ... -
Habeas Corpus in international law
(2014-05-04)This thesis seeks to determine its location, scope, application, and significance of the right to habeas corpus in international law. It examines the history of the right, looks the guarantees contained in international ... -
Human rights and foreign investment
(2015-03-27)This study details the mechanisms of a neoliberal ideology operative in the current international approach to foreign direct investment (FDI). It charts an increasing dependency on FDI within the process of international ... -
Localising the Right to Drinking Water: Perspectives and Challenges
(2014-01-08)Access to drinking water has become a critical matter for humanity in the current context of growing competing demand for resource. It is well recognised that the ongoing water crisis to a large extent is a crisis of ... -
Making the new space created in the UN CRPD real: Ensuring the voice and meaningful participation of the disability movement in policy-making and national monitoring
(2014-12-16)The participation of persons with disabilities in policy and legislative processes and in monitoring the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is an international legal ... -
Peoples' right to peace: enforcement through international law instruments
(NUI Galway, 2019-01-24)This study presents a bottom-up approach to address the current impasse regarding the international peace. It notes that the existing top-down remedies for peace presented by leaders who are involved in committing crimes ... -
Progressing counter-hegemonies of women's human rights in Ireland: Feminist activists' vernacularisation practices
(2014-10-07)The realisation of second-wave feminist activists' vision to progress women's rights through their framing as human rights has been limited in Ireland due to constitutive, systemic and movement factors. These factors ... -
The Prohibition of Environmental Damage during the Conduct of Hostilities in Non-International Armed Conflict
(2013-05-09)This thesis examines the adequacy of the laws of armed conflict to prohibit environmental damage in non-international armed conflict. The overall conclusions is that the laws of armed conflict are not adequate in this ... -
Revolution and international criminal law: The extraordinary chambers in the courts of Cambodia
(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 a healthy environment: a rights based approach to environmental issues
(2015-12-15)This thesis analyses the Right to a Healthy Environment (RHE) and identifies the added value of rights-based approaches (RBAs) in the broader context of sustainable development. It focuses particularly on the requirement ... -
The right to food and the world trade organization’s rules on agriculture: conflicting, compatible, or complementary?
(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 judge in the progressive development of international criminal law
(2017-01-19)International criminal law offers fertile ground for considering the role of the bench in the development of law through creative or progressive interpretative methodologies. Since its genesis at Nuremberg more than 70 ... -
Sri Lanka and the United Nations. A human rights case study
(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. ...