scholarly journals The Role of the judiciary in safeguarding women's rights : a conference of the supreme court of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, 22 - 24 February 2005 [Dari] / Medico Mondiale, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The Supreme Court

The Supreme Court and Women's Rights: A New Challenge

Affilia ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-132
Author(s):  
Vicki Lens
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
The Supreme Court

scholarly journals Elimination of Gender Discriminatory Legal Provision by the Supreme Court of Nepal with Reference to Women's Right to Property

1970 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nutan Chandra Subedi
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Legal Provision ◽  
The Supreme Court

Not available.Key words: Gender Discriminatory; Legal Provision; Supreme Court; Women's Rights; NepalTribhuvan University Journal Volume XXVI No. 1, 2009 Page: 37-54

‘Perfect Vision’: An Examination of the Role of Census and Profiling Practices in Visualizing and Crafting Refugee ‘Groups’ under Contemporary Group-resettlement Programmes

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Christian Batarseh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Identity Fraud ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
Group Processing ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Boundary Making

Abstract This article demonstrates how the characteristically visual practices of boundary-making around prospective refugee groups comprise an important and instrumentalized version of what Rogers Brubaker (2004) calls ‘groupism’—the assumption that ‘discrete, sharply differentiated, internally homogeneous and externally bounded groups’ are the ‘basic constituents of social life’ (2004: 8). Unlike individual resettlement, group-resettlement schemes (known as ‘Group Processing’ in Canada, ‘Priority-2 group referrals’ in the United States and the ‘Group Methodology’ at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)) involve the resettlement of entire refugee groups. Preoccupations with security and the possibility of identity fraud in these programmes have led to a preference for what are perceived as easily identifiable, finite and homogenous refugee groups. Census and profiling practices permit authorities to visualize and draw boundaries around these types of groups. These practices are the preconditions for the writing of specific narratives of risk, persecution and flight in UNHCR group profiles. An examination of group resettlement reveals how officials do not just choose between pre-existing refugee groups based on racial, national and ethnic categories, but rather attempt to construct an idealized conception of groups reflected in Brubaker’s notion of groupism.

The UN Group of Governmental Experts on International Co-Operation to Avert New Flows of Refugees

1984 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 480-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke T. Lee
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Nobel Peace Prize ◽  
Palestinian Refugees ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Source Countries ◽  
Political Character

Since its founding in 1950, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has rendered invaluable services and assistance to millions of refugees throughout the world. Indeed, in recognition of its services, it has twice been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. However, the “entirely non-political character” of its work has been interpreted as precluding it from actively seeking solutions to the generation of refugees, particularly when the responsibilities of source countries are involved. The UNHCR is debarred altogether from concerning itself with the Palestinian refugees, even though the role of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which was created specifically to aid them, is considerably narrower than that of the UNHCR vis-à-vis other refugees.

scholarly journals ‘Equally unequal or unequally equal’

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-85
Author(s):  
Ebenezer Durojaye ◽  
Yinka Owoeye
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
International Law ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Substantive Equality ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Formal Equality ◽  
Court Of Appeal

The purpose of this article is to critically assess the approach of Nigerian courts to interpreting section 42 of the Constitution. This article argues that Nigerian courts are yet to develop a substantive equality approach to interpreting section 42 of the Constitution. Rather, the courts have tended to adopt the formal equality approach to interpreting the section. Analysing some decisions of the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court, the article argues that in order to safeguard women’s rights and address gender inequality in the country, Nigerian courts should lean towards substantive equality approach to the interpretation of section 42 of the Constitution. This is not only consistent with Nigeria’s obligations under international law but also crucial to addressing historical imbalances between men and women in the country.

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