Do Legal Rights Correlate to Development?

From principle to practice: moving from human rights to legal rights to ensure child health.

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When legal rights are not a reality: do individuals know their rights and how can we tell?

Public knowledge of rights has been the subject of a number of empirical enquiries over the last decade. In England and Wales, knowledge of rights and its relationship with an individual's capacity to 'self-help' and 'self-represent' when faced with a civil justice problem has become the subject of renewed attention following changes to legal aid which, from March 2013, will see the availabilit...

Basic Student Rights within the Iranian Legal System

Having a clear set of basic Iranian students’ legal rights could serve as a practical guideline to commitments and responsibilities of teachers, administrators, and others dealing with education. To this end, all existing legal documents related to the topic were content analyzed. The result has been a set of fourteen principle areas which can be categorized into three subsets depending on the ...

What Role Do Legal Institutions Play in Development?

Rights - Based Approaches to Development

Focuses on the current issues highlighted in the African Peer Review Mechanism report involving Rwanda and Ghana. Firm and concrete actions sought by the very least donor countries to stop fiscal indiscipline or impropriety and human rights violation; Aim of Ghana President John Kufuor to correct the path in terms of governance and good leadership for economic development; Optimism of Rwandan P...