The Summoning of Dissolved Parliament by the PresidentThe Constitution provides two ways in which the President can re-summon a dissolved Parliament;Firstly, Art 70(7) provides that, “if at any time...
First Optional Protocol to the ICCPR adopted by the United Nations in 1966 came into force in 1976. The Optional Protocol I is an adjunct instrument to the Covenant, which...
Today society’s interaction with nature is so extensive that environmental issues have assumed proportions affecting all humanity. With the industrial and technological...
The International Labour Organization – ILO, a specialised agency of the United Nations aims at establishing social justice and promoting human rights through enacting...
The adoption by the United Nations in 1986 of the Declaration on the Right to Development ("the Declaration") was the culmination of a long process of international...
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