Browsing University of Galway Theses by Subject "Irish Centre for Human Rights"
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The Dehumanisation Dynamic: A Criminology of Genocide
(2011-10-03)Why do individuals perpetrate the crime of genocide? This thesis utilises an interdisciplinary, criminological approach in order to explore this question. Interviews with perpetrators and victims of genocide in Rwanda, ... -
Detention without trial in the United Kingdom: From empire to the 'War on Terror'
(2014-05-16)This thesis analyses detention without trial in the United Kingdom by applying a socio-legal lens to several instances where these extra-judicial powers have been adopted. What will emerge from this examination is twofold. ... -
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 ... -
Failed and Failing States: Causes and Conditions
(2012-06-11)Through scholarly consideration this study evaluates structural competency gaps that precipitate state failure and examines the resulting consequences for the world community. As an elected official for over seventeen ... -
The Human Rights Triangle: Transnational Corporations, International Human Law and Regional Cooperation in the Context of Development
(2013-01-29)Following World War II, the allied powers sought to improve global financial stability and ensure that basic rights were codified and protected at the international level. The UN Charter and the Bretton Woods agreements ... -
Illegal territoriality in international law: the interaction and enforcement of the law of belligerant occupation through other territorial regimes
(2014-08-30)This work examines the place and function of the international law of belligerent occupation its interplays with other public international law regimes and argues that the co-application of these regimes, as well as an ... -
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 ... -
Mass justice for mass atrocity: Transitional justice and illiberal peace-building in Rwanda
(2013-12-01)Rwanda took the new, global norm of accountability to its logical extreme by putting more than one million, mostly low-level genocide suspects on trial. In doing so, Rwanda challenged the dominant model of accountability ... -
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 ... -
The Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Law
(2013-08)This work seeks to examine the potential of international criminal tribunals to set the highest standards of procedural fairness for the conduct of criminal proceedings domestically. This work points to a number of reasons ... -
The right to health of irregular migrants: An exploration of enabling and constraining factors in international and European human rights law
(NUI Galway, 2019-04-08)This doctoral thesis asks whether international and European human rights law are substantially and structurally equipped to enhance the right to health of irregular migrants. These legal frameworks encounter structural ... -
Shocking the conscience of humanity: Gravity and the legitimacy of international criminal law
(2014-10-20)This thesis analyses the relationship between an idea and the legitimacy of an international regime. The idea, captured in the word "gravity", is that some crimes are so serious that they concern the entire world. That ... -
State duty to inform and educate public opinion on human rights standards
(2015-02-11)The present study seeks to challenge the State's tendency to simply blame public opinion when there are difficulties in protecting and promoting human rights. This study discovers that on racial and gender equality, ... -
Transitional justice in Africa: Traditional and modern approaches to addressing genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity
(NUI Galway, 2016-11-01)The term transitional justice generally refers to a range of judicial and nonjudicial mechanisms that have been utilized by countries in order to address massive human rights abuses. Such mechanisms can include prosecutions, ... -
Transitional justice in Timor-Leste: Done and dusted?
(2014-04-01)This thesis discusses a transitional justice framework that is derived from United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan`s report The Rule of Law and Transitional Justice in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies, published ...