'human rights'

Maternal mortality remains one of the highest causes of death in the world today. The main objective of this book is to focus on a critically important part of maternal mortality and human rights viz. monitoring, accountability and redress. ...

Three key features of the book: 1. It argues that colonialism is not only a feature of the European past, but an ongoing presence that is apparent in contemporary human rights conflicts. 2. It argues that the European/Western conception of human ...

Purpose This paper aims to examine the Indonesian Stock Exchange-listed (IDX-listed) companies? human rights disclosures. Design/methodology/approach The year-ending 2012 annual report disclosures of 75 IDX-listed companies are analyzed. The Global ...

The World Bank should mainstream human rights in its operation given the high level of influence it has on many people's lives. In spite of the Bank's tendency to avoid any involvement in human rights issues in the past, it has recently stated that ...

Research, policy analysis, and conditional aid policy among some donor countries rely on standards-based measures of country human rights performance. These measures code annual performance based on narrative reports published by the US State ...

This thesis explores and analyses the applicability and limitations of human rights law as it applies to transgender persons. As such limitations are most evident in a strictly sex segregated spaces, the thesis proposes a case study on detention to ...

The use of compliance studies to evaluate the effectiveness of international human rights courts can produce misleading results because a focus on compliance considers the behaviour of only one stakeholder in the dynamic that is human rights ...

Purpose ? The purpose of this paper is to examine the state-business nexus in responses to human rights violations in businesses and questions the efficacy of the UN guiding principles on human rights in businesses, in particular in the ready-made ...

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in neglected diseases as a public health issue. However, there has been less attention given to the links between neglected diseases and human rights. Neglected diseases are more likely to occur ...

This book offers both an introduction to and a critical analysis of enduring themes and issues in the contemporary theory and practice of human rights. The author argues that the moral authority and practical efficacy of human rights are adversely ...