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The African Commission on Human and People's Rights and the woman question
(Springer, 2016)
This paper proposes that in developing jurisprudence on women's rights, the African Commission will need to ask the woman question particularly the African woman question. The woman question requires a judicial or ...
Devolution by court injunction: The case of land use planning and management in South Africa
(Uganda Management Institute, 2016)
In South Africa, the legal and policy framework for land use planning and control underwent a significant transformation in which power over land use planning and control was shifted from provinces to local governments. ...
An argument for foetal protection within a framework of legal abortion in South Africa
(International Centre of Medicine and Law, 2016)
Termination of pregnancy (abortion) and foetal protection remain a challenging topic in South Africa where abortion is legalised and largely decriminalised. As a general rule, an unborn (nasciturus) does not have legal ...
Decriminalising abortion in South Africa: implications for the unborn's right to life
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
The 1975 Abortion and Sterilisation Act (ASA) was the first statute to regulate abortion in South Africa. The ASA provided that abortion was illegal. Although the default legal position adopted by it appeared to be clearly ...
Die bekendmaking van die identiteit van anonieme minderjariges by meerderjarigheid: regverdigbaar of nie?
(LitNet Akademies, 2016)
Die identiteit van minderjariges word nie bekendgemaak tydens hofverrigtinge nie. Sowel
getuies as slagoffers en oortreders kry hierdie vergunning en word deur die wetgewer
beskerm. Hierdie beskerming verval egter wanneer ...
The (mis)management of ethnolinguistic diversity in Ethiopian cities
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
Ethiopia has an ethnic federal system that is based on the assumption that the ethnolinguistic
communities of the country are located in neatly defined, or definable, territorial areas.
On the basis of this assumption ...
Restorative justice as postmodern justice: exegesis and critique
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
This essay explores the relationship between postmodernism and RJ.
Postmodernism quickly outgrew its non-legal origins and has extended its
reach to incorporate matters legal. Already, it has established a significant
presence ...
Islamic state practices in the framework of Islamic and international human rights instruments
(Electronic Publishing, 2016)
The main purpose of this article is to provide an analytical perspective of essentially four current Islamic human rights instruments adopted under the protection of two different, parallel 'Arab' and 'Islamic' organisations, ...
The admissibility in Namibia of evidence obtained through human rights violations
(Pretoria University Law Press, 2016)
Unlike the case in other African countries, such as South Africa, Kenya and Zimbabwe, the Namibian Constitution does not require courts to exclude evidence obtained through human rights violations if the admission of that ...
The legal status of evidence obtained through human rights violations in Uganda
(Faculty of Law, North-West University, 2016)
The Constitution of the Republic of Uganda, 1995 is silent on the issue of dealing with evidence obtained through human rights
violations. This silence dates to the earlier Constitutions of 1962, 1966 and 1967. ...