Ombuds Institutions, Good Governance and Human Rights in Africa and Asia-Pacific

The purpose of this study is to find out and analyze the construction of policies for handling the Covid-19 pandemic based on women and children's welfare and analyze the Government's role in realizing the policy for handling the Covid-19 pandemic. In order to realize the welfare of women and children. This study uses a qualitative method with a normative juridical approach. The results showed that the construction of welfare-based Covid-19 handling policies for women and children must be socialized to women and children. The socialization process to women and children is carried out in a way; love, appreciation, and love between family members. Socializing women and children in making a policy must encourage and enable women and children to collaborate as equal stakeholders in policies to handle Covid-19 during the pandemic. This policy has certain limitations, such as Human Rights, Good Governance, and Morality. Policies with these limitations will produce policies that guarantee freedom for women and children, protection for women and children, welfare for women and children, child development, all of which must be considered in the policy for handling Covid 19.

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The Dynamics of International Law in a Globalised World

10.5771/9783465142911 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Matthias Herdegen

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

International Law ◽

Good Governance ◽

Driving Forces ◽

International Agreements ◽

Democratic Legitimacy ◽

International Peace ◽

Economic Stability ◽

Peace And Security ◽

Global Spread

In the process of globalisation, international law plays a crucial and ambivalent role. It is one of the driving forces behind the integration of markets, expanding standards of human rights and good governance as well as mechanisms for international peace and security. International law also responds to a globalised world which catalyses not only universal ethics, but also the global spread of risks to political and economic stability. "Evolutive interpretation" of international agreements affects traditional concepts of sovereignty and democratic legitimacy. It enhances the power of technocratic elites. At the same time, we witness an intensive interplay between the different sectors of international law; new layers of 'hard' and 'soft' normativity as well as intriguing forms of legal pluralism.

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The Clinton Administration and Africa: A View from Nairobi, Kenya

Issue A Journal of Opinion ◽

10.1017/s0047160700502984 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 70-74

Author(s):

Korwa G. Adar

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Cold War ◽

Rule Of Law ◽

Driving Force ◽

Good Governance ◽

Clinton Administration ◽

African Continent ◽

Post Cold War ◽

The Rule Of Law ◽

Human Rights Movement

There is nothing more fundamental to Africans who are concerned with the future of the African continent than the issues of democracy, human rights, good governance, and the rule of law. These basic human liberties, among other concerns, constitute the central driving force behind what is often referred to as Africa’s “second liberation.” The primary purpose of this article is to assess the Clinton administration’s role in this second liberation, particularly in terms of its involvement in issues of democracy and human rights. This assessment is offered from the perspective of an individual who has been directly involved in the prodemocracy and human rights movement in Kenya. This article focuses on whether the Clinton administration’s policies are still heavily influenced by classic U.S. conceptions of realpolitik, or if enlightened leadership more in line with a neo-Wilsonian idealpolitik—as official rhetoric suggests—has permitted a fundamental departure in favor of a more coherent and tangible democracy and human rights foreign policy stance in the post-Cold War era.

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