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Eze, Osita C. "NIGERIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS - PROSPECTS AND PROBLEMS." Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology, 1991. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/bet,1506.

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Awoniyi, Henry Olufemi. "An assessment of the Nigerian Christian magazine's response to oppression in Nigeria as an advocacy journal 1967-1987." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362170.

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For twenty-three years, the Christian Council of Nigeria made plans for a newspaper with which to plead the cause of the disadvantaged in Nigeria. In April 1967, it eventually launched the <I>Nigerian Christian</I> magazine as a Christian journal for reporting and reflection on matters of importance to the nation. This thesis assesses the <I>Nigerian Christian</I> magazine's response to oppression in Nigeria, in order to determine whether the magazine lived up to its foundling vision. The study is delimited to 1) the <I>Nigerian Christian's</I> reporting and reflection over a twenty-year perio
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Umeh, Emmanuel Chukwuemeka. "The promotion of human rights and social justice : a call to liberation theology for the Church in Nigeria /." Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 2004. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/373892179.pdf.

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Otunba, Ganiyu. "Enhancing LGBT Rights in Africa: a case study of Nigeria." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-229491.

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In the last decade several western countries have greatly enhanced the rights of sexual minorities in their societies. Same-sex marriage is now legal in most states in the United States, while about twenty three countries in Europe presently allow same-sex marriage or some form of civil partnership. Africa on the other hand is witnessing a rise in the number of countries further criminalizing sexual minorities and homophobia is rising across the continent. Homosexuality is illegal in 76 countries in the world, 38 of which are in Africa and of these 38, homosexuality is punishable by death in 4
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Omuoreh, U. "International law and the human rights of migrant workers in Africa with particular reference to Nigeria." Thesis, University of Essex, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.232993.

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Eko-Akingbesote, Oluwapelumi Zainab. "Covid-19 And Democratic Backsliding: : Citizens’ Perception of Democracy and Human Rights in Nigeria." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-104637.

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Ibraheem, Ismail Adegboyega. "The power of influence : human rights organisations and political mobilisation in Nigeria (1990-1999)." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30559.

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This study examines the impact of human rights in the democratisation process in Nigeria between 1990 and 1999. It looks at how human rights organisations influenced domestic politics. It discusses the influence of international human rights networking and the role of local context in mediating the global influence of human rights in Nigeria. It used as a case study, the Civil Liberties Organisation, the first local human rights organisation in Nigeria. Through a combination of theoretical insights from democratisation, globalisation and media construction of politics, the study developed anal
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Bjoerkan, Maren. "International displacement and state compliance with international human rights standards: the current protection of internally displaced persons' right to physical security in Nigeria." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28030.

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There are approximately 65.3 million forcibly displaced people in the world. A large majority of these people are internally displaced. Of the 40.8 million internally displaced persons' (IDPs) worldwide, Nigeria had a total of 1,955,000 IDPs at the end of 2016. Consequently, Nigeria is among the countries with the highest number of displaced persons globally. A wide range of political, economic, social, and environmental factors, including poverty, corruption, and internal armed conflict, affect the population in Nigeria and contribute to internal instability. Thus, as Nigeria represents a com
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Sogunro, Ayodele. "Advocacy, social control, and the criminalisation of same-sex relationships : the evolution and enforcement of ‘anti-gay laws’ in Nigeria." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78375.

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Since the enactment of Nigeria’s Same Sex (Marriage) Prohibition Act of 2013, advocacy for the protection of sexual and gender minorities in Nigeria has grown rapidly. This advocacy often toes a line of legal formalism, under an international human rights law framework. This framework uses strategic litigation, petitions before international bodies, presentation of violations reports to the national human rights bodies, and public engagement on the equality of application of human rights norms for sexual and gender minorities. Despite these efforts, political rhetoric and public opinion contin
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Niyi-Gafar, Oluwabunmi Lucy. "Adopting a human rights-based approach to access to water in Nigeria : lessons from selected jurisdictions." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/62549.

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Based on the assumption that water is a human right that the Nigerian government is obliged to fulfil, this thesis begins with a historical overview of the development of a human right to water. This description provides the background against which a human rights-based approach to water is conceptualised. I argue that the Nigerian government supports the human right to water on the international stage but has failed to maintain a legal and institutional framework that supports a human right to water domestically. A legal analysis of the current state of access to water in Nigeria shows that t
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Nwankpa, Michael Okwuchi. "Conflict and development in Nigeria : counterinsurgency and counterterrorism strategies towards the Niger Delta and Boko Haram conflicts." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2017. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/Conflict-and-Development-in-Nigeria(eb6c557b-c185-4cc0-bc58-0b7153f33190).html.

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Nigeria has seen an upsurge in violent conflicts leading to insurgency and terrorism since it returned to civilian government in 1999, following sixteen years of military rule. The Niger Delta and Boko Haram insurgencies stand out among conflict groups in Nigeria as they have produced global consequences, hence provoking domestic and international counter-insurgency efforts. Military responses remain primary, but development responses are being increasingly employed. Addressing issues of poverty, exclusion, injustice and underdevelopment is considered to be more fundamental to solving contempo
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Oluwasina, Ayeni Victor. "Domestic impact of the African Charter Human and Peoples' Rights and the protocol on the rights of woman in Africa : a case study of Nigeria." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/18606.

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The achievements made at the continental level since 21 October 1986 when the African Charter on Human and Peoples‟ Rights (African Charter) came into force have been modest yet significant. Following its adoption, the African Charter was hailed as a very ambitious document. This is because of its uniquely African features: emphasis on morality, anti-colonial stance, absence of derogations justiciability of economic, social and cultural rights, recognition of peoples‟ rights as well as the imposition of duties on states and individuals. As a result of these distinctive characteristics, many sc
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Bartlett, Isam. "Bring back our girls: A human rights analysis of child abductions by Boko Haram." University of the Western Cape, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6518.

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Magister Legum - LLM<br>As the world evolves new perils emerge which pose a significant threat to human and child rights, it is imperative that the protection of these rights is prioritised. Human rights can be defined as the rights that every human being is entitled to. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was one of the first international legal instruments which set forth the basic human rights of citizens which are applicable irrespective of race, culture, sex or economic standing highlighting the universal applicability of human rights. Human rights violations have been
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Ogundokun, Opeoluwa Adetoro. "A human rights approach to combating corruption in Africa : appraising the AU Convention using Nigeria and South Africa." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/1157.

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"In Africa, the struggle for human rights shares a great deal of common ground with the struggle against corruption. In fighting to improve the lot of a majority of the world's population, one must recognise that the fight for social and economic rights is often intimately linked to the fight against the monopolisation of resources by 'networks of patronage'. Corruption perpetuates discrimination, prevents the full realisation of economic, social and cultural rights, and leads to the infringement of several civil and political rights. In a move that acknowledged the fact that corruption is a p
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Tareri, Avwomakpa. "A rights-based approach to indigenous minorities : focus on the Urhobo and Ogoni peoples of the Niger Delta in Nigeria." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/8004.

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Indigenous people (IP) and minorities (IM)have similar problems of political, economic, and social marginalisation. The Nigerian government (hiding behind the veil of the African Union) does not recognise the indigenous status of deserving ethnic groups. This has left indigenous minorieties unprotected. Considering the situation in Africa generally, and in Nigeria specifically, this research work is aimed at answering the following questions: (1) Will the protection and promotion of the rights of IP in Africa not be effective if they are considered as IM; thereby giving the dominant majority
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Adeyemo, Deborah Damilola. "Transitional justice after the military regimes in Nigeria: a failed attempt?" Thesis, University of Western Cape, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3314.

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Obibuaku, Ugochukwu Lawrence. "The promotion and protection of Socio-Economic Rights under the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights : Prospects and Challenges in South Africa and Nigeria." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.536728.

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This thesis argues that the nature of socio-economic rights makes their violation central to key poverty and developmental issues in Africa. The thesis further argues that an effective socio-economic rights' legal and institutional framework will aid the realisation of socioeconomic rights as well as poverty reduction and development. In this context, the thesis examines the arrangements made for the promotion and protection of socio-economic rights under the African Charter. It also critically examines challenges to the realisation of socioeconomic rights under the Charter. Using South Africa
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Yemisi, Okunbolande A. "Comparative analysis of the role of sub-national parliaments in international human rights law in Nigeria and South Africa." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/16759.

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Foreign policy has generally speaking been the traditional ‘responsibility of national governments’. This is particularly true of states with unitary systems of governments but is less true in federalist states.Federalist states are states which have adopted a system of government whereby ‘powers are divided and shared between constituent governments and a general government having certain nation-wide’ responsibilities’. Federalism is often adopted by pluralistic societies to ensure a system of uniformity while accommodating differences and to maintain national security and economic unity. By
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Mashego, Katlego Arnold. "Examining the link between economic development and the enforcement of socio-economic rights in Africa: A case study of South Africa and Nigeria." University of Western Cape, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8333.

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Magister Legum - LLM<br>This year marks 57 years since Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was formed on 25 May 1963 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This year also marks 18 years since the African Union (AU) was formed on 9 July 2002 in Durban, South Africa. This year further marks 39 years since the adoption of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Charter) was adopted on 27 June 1981 in Nairobi, Kenya. This was recorded as historic step towards the protection of human rights in Africa.
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Ebobrah, Solomon Tamarabrakemi. "Towards effective realisation of the right to a satisfactory environment in the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights: a case for domestic horizontal application." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/1210.

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"Although the African Commission recognised that non-state actors (in this case the transnational corporations (TNCs)) contributed to the violations that prompted the SERAC communication, it failed to hold the TNCs accountable for the violations. The Commission rather held the state party responsible [for] failing to prevent the violations in its territory. The reason for the failure of the Commission to hold the non-state actor accountable is obvious. As Anderson has noted, 'conventional jurisprudence contends that human rights are enforceable only against the acts of omissions of the state r
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Taiwo, Elijah Adewale. "The implementation of the right to education in South Africa and Nigeria." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1392.

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The thesis examines the right to education in South Africa and Nigeria. It presents the right to education as an empowerment right which is given a wide recognition in a number of important international and regional human rights instruments as well as in national constitutions. It asserts that the right to education is a right with a multiplying effect in the sense that where it is effectively guaranteed, it enhances the enjoyment of all other rights and freedoms, and when it is denied, it precludes the enjoyment of many other human rights. The thesis examines the provisions of relevant inter
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Odongo, Godfrey Odhiambo. "Making non-state actors accountable for violations of socio-economic rights: a case study of transnational corporations in the African context." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/932.

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"The exclusive focus on the state-centric paradigm of IHRL fails to address the increasing number of an array of private (non-state) actors who may come into play in terms of violations of human rights. Therefore while this study proceeds from the premise that the state is the primary focus of IHRL, it will be argued that the state cannot certainly be deemed the sole bearer of responsibility for human rights violations in view of the increase in the number of potential violators. Consequently, the study aims to address three issues. Firstly, it seeks to investigate the increase in the number
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Oyero, Rofiah Ololade. "An appraisal of the right to dignity of prisoners and detainees with disabilities : a case study of Ghana and Nigeria." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/1099.

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"This paper addresses the right to dignity of a group of people with two vulnerabilities i.e. being a disabled person and a prisoner. The concept of dignity applies to prisoners and detainees irrespective of their offences at any given time. This is a right that is ascribed to a person by virtue of one's humanity and not one's circumstances. In Ghana and Nigeria, the rights of able and disabled prisoners are not given serious consideration. This is probably due to the fact that these two countries are still involved in violations of human rights and they are yet to implement most of the provis
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Ogbonna, Hilary Chima. "Growing without poverty: the role of good governance and pro-poor growth in the realisation of socio-economic rights and human development in Africa." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/8097.

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This research is founded upon three fundamental premises. The first is that good governance is central to human development. The second premise is that the realisation of socio-economic rights is a necessary condition for the attainment of human development. The third premise is that pro-poor growth policies and frameworks are veritable tools through which human development can be delivered and socio-economic rights realised. The research Focuses on the view that human development should be the end of every growth policy regime and good governance the means to such end. Socio-economic rights o
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Obiokoye, Iruoma Onyinye. "Eradicating delay in the administration of justice in African courts: a comparative analysis of South African and Nigerian courts." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/942.

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"A well functioning judiciary is a central element of civil society. It is the sole adjudicator over the political, social and economic spheres. Judiciaries in many African countries suffer from backlogs, delays and corruption. In countries such as Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda, speedy resolution of disputes is becoming increasingly elusive. Although many African countries have constitutional provisions against delay, and have identified congestion, excessive adjournments, local legal culture and corruption as some of the major causes of delay, nevertheless, the pro
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Olaborede, Adebola Olufunmi. "The cultural practice of child marriage as a challenge to the realisation of the human rights of the girl –child: a comparative study of South Africa and Nigeria." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/2578.

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This study primarily sets out to examine the cultural practice of child marriage in Africa with a focus on the comparative study of South Africa and Nigeria. This practice has been prohibited in a number of international human rights instruments such as the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Right on the Rights of Women in Africa. However, overwhelming statistics show that the overall prevalence of child marriage in Africa is still very high and if current trends continue, Africa will become a region with the la
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Owen, Oliver H. "The Nigeria police force : an institutional ethnography." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e824783a-8ba0-4d96-8519-0ee2b2090fc8.

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This thesis is an institutional ethnography of the Nigeria Police Force. It concentrates on evidence from 18 months of fieldwork in one particular police station, in the pseudonymised town of Dutsin Bature in central Nigeria, and draws comparative evidence from examples and locations elsewhere in Nigeria. The fieldwork evidence is also supported by analyses of public discourse, literature reviews, some formal interviews and historical research. The thesis aims to fill a gap in empirical scholarship by looking at policing in Nigeria primarily from the level of everyday practice, and deriving un
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Kwazu, Fidelis Chineme Bayo [Verfasser]. "Developing a Viable Strategy of Solving the Problems of Poverty in the Light of Human Rights : A Case Study of Igboland in Nigeria / Fidelis Chineme Bayo Kwazu." Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1045173118/34.

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Osiki, Abigail Emilomo. "The interdependence of human rights: a case study with recommendations for law reform to promote decent work in the informal economy and street vending sector in Nigeria." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Law, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29997.

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Broadly, decent work is promoted as a means to escape poverty. Indeed, particularly in developing countries, work is valuable as a means to gain income to meet the needs for food, shelter, health care, clothing and education. However, not all work contributes positively to human development. One example of such work is informal employment. As the informal economy has continued to expand, growing concern about the nature and quality of work has, over the past two decades, given rise to various attempts to measure and promote decent work. Decent work means work that respects the human rights of
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Lado, Hervé. "Le développement comme processus d'élimination des rentes et de la prédation : le cadre conceptuel de Douglass North, John Wallis et Barry Weingast à l'épreuve du Nigéria." Thesis, Paris 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA010086.

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Si l’on conçoit le développement comme un processus d’élimination des rentes, le cadre conceptuel de Douglass North, John Wallis, Barry Weingast (NWW) élaboré en 2009 qui le définit comme processus de transition institutionnelle d’un ordre social d’accès limité (pays en développement) où la violence est permanente et disséminée, vers un ordre social d’accès ouvert (pays développés) où les accès économiques et politiques sont ouverts à tous grâce à la libre compétition, élimine-t-il véritablement les rentes ? Par une critique théorique interne et une critique empirique illustrée par l’histoire
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Moen, Siri. "Managing political risk : corporate social responsibility as a risk mitigation tool. A focus on the Niger Delta, southern Nigeria." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20189.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The petroleum industry concern itself with natural resource extracting activities which are highly sensitive for contributing to environmental degradation by oil spills or gas flaring. A large proportion of the world’s oil and gas reserves is located in developing countries where the presence of multinational oil corporations (MNOCs) is high as host countries often lack the infrastructure needed or are financially unable to conduct extracting operations on their own. The Niger Delta in southern Nigeria has one of the largest
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Agada, Akogwu. "Assessing the human rights implications of the Nigerian law dealing with sexual orientation." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65626.

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The 21st century has witnessed a radical change in the status of sexual minorities, the world over, with this change having a profound impact in the global North, in particular. A series of landmark United Nations, regional and national court decisions, inspired by the increasing effective lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual (LGBT) lobby, are progressively announcing the end of institutionalised discrimination which had been the lot of homosexual persons for centuries in many part of the world. However, while there has been a statutory shift towards the welcoming of homosexual persons in the W
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Hatupopi, Petrus. "The responsibility to protect (R2P): an analysis of the fulfillment of the obligation borne by the Nigerian Government and the international community to protect the Nigerian population from Boko Haram." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27491.

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This dissertation investigated the doctrine of the responsibility to protect (R2P), which was unanimously endorsed at the 2005 UN World Summit by all the UN Member States. I determined the status of R2P in public international law. I found that, although the 2005 UN World Summit Outcome Document is not a source of international law, the responsibility to protect contained therein under paragraph 138, reiterated the existing international legal obligation of states to protect their populations from genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing. I have argued that if a state
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Mike, Jennifer Heaven. "Enhancing women's access to essential medicines in Nigeria : a reconsideration of the patent framework of the TRIPS Agreement to improve access to medicines, as a right to health and a means to human development in Nigeria." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/27094.

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The overall objective of this study is to promote the human rights to health of Nigerian women to have access essential medicines, to enhance their human capabilities for human development. This thesis argues for an improvement of women’s access to medicines within the context of patent law and rights in the international IP regime of the Trade Related Aspect of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) Agreement and Nigeria’s national patent system. Towards this goal, the thesis makes the point that patent law and its exclusive rights, both the TRIPS Agreement and national law of Nigeria, do not exist in
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Ezeocha, Chisomaga Ihediohanma. "Consequences of the Niger Delta Amnesty Program Implementation on Nigeria's Upstream Petroleum Industry." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3158.

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The Niger Delta militancy ravaged the Nigerian upstream petroleum sector between 2004-2009, bringing it to a standstill. In response, the Nigerian state adopted an amnesty policy―a globally recognized tool for conflict resolution and peacebuilding―to protect the sector and the economy from collapse. Little is known, however, about the unintended consequences of the amnesty implementation for the Nigerian upstream petroleum sector. Thus, the purpose of this study was to fill this gap in the research literature on the Niger Delta amnesty program. Polarity management was the conceptual framework
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Agocha, Bernadine. "The application of the local remedies rule under the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights: with a case study of communications from the Niger Delta." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=86929.

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The thesis argues that the local remedies rule as applied by the African Commission in the Niger Delta cases in a flexible manner which focused on the Respondent State's obligation to provide effective legal redress rather than the mechanical act of exhaustion of local remedies by the petitioner, represents a correct application of the rule in human rights protection and that the African Commission's pronouncements regarding the absence of effective domestic legal remedies in Nigeria facilitated improvements in Nigeria's legal institutions. A flexible approach to the local remedies rule shoul
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Uzoukwu, Livinus Ifeanyichukwu. "Constitutionalism, human rights and the judiciary in Nigeria." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3561.

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The cultivation of a culture of constitutionalism remains the greatest challenge to Nigeria’s constitutional democracy. Militarism affected in a very substantial way Africa’s efforts to develop a culture of constitutionalism in the continent. Nigeria typifies the failed African effort in trying to establish an enduring democracy and constitutionalism. After ten years of transition from militarism to constitutional democracy and the euphoria of the country’s return to democracy, the country is still on a slow march in the entrenchment of the practice of constitutionalism. This work primarily se
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Okon, Emmanuel. "Diplomatic protection of human rights as practised by South Africa and Nigeria." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29183.

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The main purpose of this research is to examine and assess the extent to which Nigeria and South Africa are prepared to invoke diplomatic protection in order to safeguard the human rights of their nationals living abroad and to determine whether there are constitutional provisions empowering them to do so. Diplomatic Protection is an institution in international law whereby a state may take diplomatic action to protect its national who has suffered some harm or injury in a foreign land, but, has not been compensated by the government of the responsible state. The practice of diplomatic protect
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Imasogie, Mosunmola Oluwatoyin. "A comparative study of aspects of gender equality under Nigerian and South African law." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24512.

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Nwafor, Gloria Chidimma. "Protection of the right of healthcare of people infected with ebola virus disease (EVD) : a human rights-based approach." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/623.

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LLM<br>Department of Public Law<br>Human rights are those inalienable rights of an individual by virtue of being a human being. They are guaranteed by various domestic and international instruments. This research argues that despite the existence of these instruments and wide acceptances of international human rights standards that seek to protect the right to healthcare, the people infected with Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) are victims of a wide range of constraints to their right to healthcare as a result of the failure by the governments of the respective nations where the impacts of the EVD a
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Nnaji, Nichodemus. "A comparative legal analysis of human rights norms and institutions in Nigeria and Canada, with a particular focus on the issue of unlawful arrest and detention." 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/31245.

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Since the establishment of the National Human Rights Commission (“NHRC”) of Nigeria, high expectations that the commission will ensure effective protection of human rights have dwindled due to pervasive human rights violations. Of great concern is that the security agencies in Nigeria, particularly the police who are empowered under the law to ensure obedience to law and order, often engage in unlawful arrest and detention. This thesis offers a comparative legal analysis of human rights norms and institutions in Nigeria and Canada, with a particular focus on the issue of unlawful arrest and de
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Morobane, Farai. "Policing gender dissidence: a study on the increase of institutionalized gender repression- the 2014 anti-homosexuality bills of Uganda and Nigeria." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/18307.

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In the first two months of 2014, LGBTI rights were dealt heavy blows in two African countries. On 7 January, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan signed into law a bill that criminalises same-sex unions, with prison sentences of up to fourteen years. This same law sentences any person or organisation that funds in any way the registration and operation of gay organisations, clubs, or societies to a prison sentence of ten years. A month later, the president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, officially assented to a more draconian bill which imposes penalties as high as life imprisonment for people en
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Shai, Kgothatso. "The United States of America's foreign policy towards Africa: the case studies of Kenya and Nigeria, 1990-2008." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/1013.

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Mwimnobi, Odirachukwu Stephen. "A critical exposition of Kwame Gyekye's communitarianism." Diss., 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1183.

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This dissertation argues that Gyekye, in his idea of communitarianism, has a contribution to make towards the understanding of the socio-political structures of multicultural communities in Africa. Gyekye's construct of metanationality, in relation to his communitarian ethics, addresses the socio-political and cultural problems confronting multicultural communities, with particular reference to Nigeria. In an attempt to achieve his idea of a "metanational state", Gyekye claims that: (1) "personhood" is partially defined by a communal structure; (2) equal moral attention should be given both to
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Branco, Maria de Deus Cordeiro Vara. "Modern piracy." Master's thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/17116.

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A definição de pirataria ou a desmistificação da sua origem, no tempo e espaço, revela maiores dificuldades do que atualmente. Com este trabalho propusemo-nos a estudar como é que a pirataria era perpetrada e entendida no passado, bem como no presente. Também nos propomos a identificar limitações legais e as medidas operativas no combate à pirataria, como por exemplo: limites conceptuais, lacunas, estratégias, entre outros. Por outro lado, atendemos as soluções encontradas no combate à pirataria sem deixar de observar fraqueza da lei e conflitos entre jurisdições. Por fim, o curso da história
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Onyegbula, Sonny Chinyere. "The efficacy of the Nigerian human rights violation investigation commission (Oputa Commission) in the process of transitional justice (1966–1999)." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27080.

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The purpose of the efficacy of the Human Rights Violation Investigation Commission (Oputa Commission) in the Process of Transitional Justice (1966- 1999) is to explore the range of political and human rights problems that confronted Nigeria from colonial times, exacerbated by military incursion into governance in 1966. As the colonial period laid the foundation for ethnic and religious politics, the period of military rule brought moral, physical and institutional decay to Nigeria. The motivations of these military rulers were not driven by service to the country but personal gratifica
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