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The Doctrine of Causation explained The doctrine of causation as we understand it is applied by the courts to determine the existence of a link or causal chain between a defendant’s conduct and a particular result prohibited by law. As Simester explains: ‘Within the criminal law, causation doctrines govern the connection between D’s behaviour and
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Image by dozemode by Pixabay Abstract This paper examines the underlying justifications for Evangelical Christian Zionism’s indifference towards the Israeli occupation of Gaza, West bank and East Jerusalem since the 1967 war and the impetus such indifference provides in supporting the Israeli Government’s continuing oppression of the Palestinian People. It considers the Evangelical claim by
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This paper argues that feminist perspectives on sexual violence and other human rights abuses committed against women contribute in significant ways to a deeper, more nuanced understanding of the lived realities of women. The exploitation of women in an androcentric world that discriminates on the basis of gender, race and socio-economic realities is examined by
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This paper draws from the works of Genocide scholars such as Daniel Feierstein to argue that understanding the crime of genocide requires one to appreciate the transformative effect it has on social relations between génocidaires and their victims within a society; an effect that has the potential to reorganize relationships, reinterpret identities and roles of
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My recent visit to Phnom Penh in Cambodia and the outlying killing fields at Choeung Ek Genocidal Centre stirred unsettling emotions; emotions not very different from those that overwhelm me whenever I cast my mind on the historical atrocities of Auschwitz, Rwanda, former Yugoslavia, or ponder the ongoing brutalities in Myanmar, Syria and Gaza. It’s
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Have you ever questioned why you believe what you believe? Why, for instance, do some believe the claims of Aung San Suu Kyi and the generals of Myanmar that a genocide of the Rohingya simply did not take place in August 2017… that it was ‘not the only hypothesis’ that thousands of women were raped,
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Revisionist Zionism’s settler colonialist ideology: Contributing to an ongoing genocide in Gaza (This is an edited version of an original dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of MA in Human Rights and Global Ethics at the School of History, Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester) ABSTRACT This paper explores
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Journal Article Analysis: Loescher, Gil (2001) ‘’The UNHCR and World Politics: State Interests vs. Institutional Autonomy’’, International Migration Review, 35:1, pp.33-56. *(Originally submitted to the University of Leicester, Politics and International Relations Dept. on 10th April 2019) Introduction The article by Loescher argues that UNHCR policy and practice have developed as a consequence of independent
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*(Originally submitted to the University of Leicester, Politics and International Relations Dept. on 13th June 2018) Introduction: This essay presents a conceptual framework for understanding State terrorism by analysing the discursive practices used in the politics of labelling to socially construct political violence that is transposed into an instrument of legitimation for the exercise
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Critically assess the theoretical and/or practical limits to the idea of universal human rights. *(Originally submitted to the University of Leicester, Politics and International Relations Dept. on 12th June 2019) Introduction In critically assessing both the theoretical and practical limits to the idea of universal human rights, this essay emphasizes that human rights provisions
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Journal Review Mark Muhannad Ayyash, ‘The paradox of political violence’ European Journal of Social Theory August 2013 vol. 16 no. 3, pp. 342-356. * (Originally Submitted to the University of Leicester, Politics and International Relations Dept. on 9th May 2018) Introduction This paper argues that although Ayyash’s thesis on political violence is a sophisticated theoretical attempt
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‘The tide has finally turned. Today, those responsible for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other gross violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law are being held accountable. Heads of State and senior officials can no longer hide from justice.’ (UN legal Counsel, Patricia O’Brian on the 10th Anniversary of the ICC).
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