This study was to investigate the nature and extent of gender equality on women in Rivers State, Nigeria. Its objectives were to identify and investigate the nature and extent of gender equality in Rivers State in Nigeria; to identify the causes and effects of gender equality in Rivers State; to analyze the legal and policy framework against gender equality; and to establish the findings, recommendations and conclusions on gender equality in Nigeria. Over the last two decades, scholars h...
Abstract This dissertation evaluates the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) as one of the modalities of addressing the 2007 post-election violence and the culture of impunity that has marred Kenya. It scrutinizes the credibility of the TJRC and examines to what extent it meets international standards. The dissertation assesses the circumstances leading to the formation (TJRC), its composition, objectives, mandate and powers. The research analyzes the complimentarity principl...
Democracy is widely considered to be a necessary and important tool if a country is to develop politically, economically and socially. This is why Lijphart referred to the electoral system as the most fundamental element of representative democracy. The foundation for election rights is found in article 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This provision has been reinforced by article 25 of International Covenant on civil and political rights. However democracy has re...
ABSTRACT In Uganda environmental and natural resource management is decentralized and has been the responsibility of Local districts since 1996.Decentralisation is defined as; A process through which authority and responsibility for some functions are transferred from the Central Government To Local Governments ,Communities and the private sector.[FAO,2014].This environmental management arrangement was part of a broader decentralization process and was intended to increase local ownership an...
ABSTRACT Over the last ten to fifteen years, and in response to the huge growth in demand for unsecured consumer credit, Ugandan banks have reviewed, automated, de-skilled and streamlined traditional credit assessment techniques. In pursuit of margin and market share, today's due diligence relies increasingly on centralized data and statistical certainty. During this same period the nature of the banks' safety net, the sanction of bankruptcy and court action has changed too. The effect of th...
Abstract Corruption has been brought throughout the last decade to an important position m the development and political economy debate. It has been seen as a primary impediment to growth (Mauro, 2002) with dramatic consequences in the developing world. This analysis has been mainly founded on bureaucratic or public sector corruption, emphasizing in particular manifestations such as administrative bribery. This highlighting reflected the availability of cross-country indices of corruption tha...
ABSTRACT General Comment 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights asks states to recognize and protect all families but leaves how to do this to state discretion. It is silent on whether all families must be protected equally in a II circumstances. 0 ften, stales make normative distinction between unmarried cohabitants and married s pauses s uch that cohabitants are normally not given the quality of rights and protections guaranteed to married spouses (Barlow et al, 200...
TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION ........................ ; .................................................................................................... ii APPROVAL ................................................................................................................................... iii DEDICATION ............................................................................................................................... iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ....................................
ABSTRACT This study sexual and gender based violence on returned and internally displaced persons was caiTied out in Gulu District with specific aims of examining the procedures taken in the legal protection of the persons who are sexually abused and at the same time the weakness that are still existing within the laws, exploring policies towards the rights of the women internally displaced and also examining the solutions towards the internally displaced persons at camps. Sexual and gender ...
Table of Contents DECLARATION ............................................................................................................................. i APPROVAL .......................................................... : ........................................................................ ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ............................................................................................................. iii !I 1 CHAPTER ONE: 1.0 INTRODUCTION OF THE STUDY ..................
TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Declaration ......................................................................................... .ii Approval ........................................................................................... .iii Dedication ......................................................................................... .iv Acknowledgements ................................................................................ v Table of Cases .............................................
ABSTRACT This research dissertation mainly dealt with the general objective and specific objectives of the study problem which is; the enforcement of intellectual Property Rights in Kenya; A comparative approach. The research sought to make a comparison between the enforcement mechanisms in Kenya comparing it closely with the enforcement mechanisms in Uganda and finally showing which jurisdiction is better placed in enforcing intellectual property rights and what can be learnt from whom. Cha...
ABSTRACT The study in the main body consisted of an evaluation of the right to health care of adolescence living with AIDS/HIV in Uganda. It made an impact on the right to health care through an analysis of the international and national Human Rights instruments under the Human Rights regime and to make a case for the primacy of Human Rights and particularly the right to health care. The study further was to investigate whether the right to health care exists in Uganda, what are the availab...
ABSTRACT Kenya is in urgent need of a more intense shift towards a focus on development. No one is more aware of this need than the citizens as was discerned from the county visit submissions done by the task Force on Devolved Government and published in their draft report. They made it clear that the mission for the counties would and should be that of achieving positive development outcomes for the citizens. Some of these outcomes included job creation, harnessing local potential, integrati...
ABSTRACT The means of intervention available to international organizations and the applicability of international humanitarian law to the activities of international organization m particular the UN, lCRC and the capacity of international humanitarian law applicable to action by international organization and the existence of armed conflict in Kosovo and other parts of this world and the protection of Human Rights. The advent of the human rights revolution post-World War II heralded human ...