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The legal consequences of the August 2008 Russian-Georgian military conflict: how does the "creeping occupation" carried out by Russia violate Georgia's sovereignty and the Georgian people’s rights?
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2017)
The present thesis illustrates how the "creeping occupation" violates Georgia’s territorial integrity and fundamental human rights based on the historical, as well as the 2008 and subsequent developments. Stemming from the ...
The applicable international instruments and mechanisms for the protection of human rights defenders in Cambodia
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)
The human rights defenders' situation in Cambodia is still extremely concerning; human rights
defenders (HRDs) frequently face physical attacks, legal harassment, intimidation, arbitrary
arrests, torture, and security ...
Human trafficking and the preventative measures taken by the European Union
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2019)
The thesis discusses the current issue of human trafficking within the European Union. Human trafficking is a human rights violation, which takes place in almost every country in the world and the efforts to combat the ...
The death penalty in the United States of America: challenging the constitutionality and analyzing inconsistency of the Supreme Court justices
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2019)
The paper is focused on two issues: the constitutionality of the death penalty and inconsistency of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. The paper aims at finding out how the constitutionality of the death ...
Analysis of EU and UN legislation regarding trafficking in human beings in Latvia
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2019)
Thesis analyses how efficiently Latvia has implemented its regional and national obligations as a member state of EU and UN in its legislation regarding THB. Directive 2011/36/EU and Palermo Protocol have provided a basis ...
Insane or religious? Drawing the line between incapacity and capacity to act, and its business potential
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)
In some cases, peculiar religious beliefs might qualify as delusions which undermine one´s capacity to act. Distinguishing between the two, a “normal” religious belief and a delusion, is troublesome, with a number of ...
Effect of new Aliens Act of Finland on the fair trial in asylum cases
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)
This thesis describes various elements of the rights to fair trial, free access to the justice, fairness, public hearings, and trials by the independent tribunals. The purpose of this thesis is to examine new Aliens Act ...
“Sicherungsverwahrung” (preventive detention) in Germany under the scrutiny of the ECHR
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)
The societal challenge how to deal with offenders deemed habitually dangerous, requires to balance needs for security of the general public with the human rights of the potential extreme dangerous offender. The prediction ...
Execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights finding a violation of Article 18 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)
The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (hereinafter ‘the Convention’) is a living instrument that gradually and consistently develops. Almost 70 years after the adoption of the ...
Protection of the right to equal recognition before the law of persons with limited capacity in the Republic of Latvia
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)
By restricting the ability of a person to make choices, guardianship excludes the person from a number of personal, social, and community experiences and thus creates a form of arbitrary and unreasonable segregation. Having ...