This thesis considers the relationship between human rights and the principle of mutual recognition as applied in criminal matters. It examines the impact of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) on human rights and highlights the importance of human rights for the success of mutual recognition measures. Having embarked on the mutual recognition programme, on the basis of largely theoretical presumptions, an attempt by the EU to reposition human rights and to ensure that a genuine area of justice exists for all, can be witnessed through recent Directives on defence rights,. This research addresses the scope and method of human rights protection with focus on the implementation of the EAW. In the first part, mutual recognition and the EAW are defined. The second part considers the practical effect of the EAW on human rights, setting out the ECHR minimum standards and the extended EU scope. The third part evaluates the defence measures adopted to date by the EU under the Stockholm Roadmap. The final part summarises the main research findings which show that human rights are key to promoting mutual trust. The scope of some rights has already been extended and reinforced by the Charter of Fundamental Rights or the EU defence rights measures. The thesis argues that the best method for reinforcing these rights in practice is a tripartite collaborative approach between the EU, Member States and the Council of Europe. In order to address the tension between human rights and mutual recognition, work needs to continue beyond adoption of the Stockholm measures. It requires genuine commitment on the part of the EU institutions and Member States for the necessary amendments, adoptions, implementation and human rights protection to take place and be reflected in practice.

In this thesis I argue that there are qualities of literary writing which can illuminate human rights discourse and, specifically, its limit points. I focus on one such limit-point: the difficulty of fully possessing human rights. Rights are most likely to be securely guaranteed under the legal system of a nation-state. However, such rights – possessed on the basis of citizenship rather than through humanness – are not always considered human rights. The position of the nation-state, the possibility of legal enforcement and the category of the human are therefore ambiguities for the discourse. Literary texts from two countries which have been central to debates about human rights – Uganda and South Africa – will provide the focus for this study. Joseph Slaughter proposes that the plot of the Bildungsroman both resembles and promulgates the citizenship model of human rights-possession. However, in texts addressing the involvement of children in war in Uganda, I read experiments with the Bildungsroman form to indicate human rights discourse’s preoccupation with merely human identity. Child soldier narratives appeal to a decontextualized, universal image of the child, while in the fiction of Goretti Kyomuhendo there is an excessive repetition of familial language and symbol which throws the traditional narrative arc of the Bildungsroman off course. Critics including Slaughter see literature as compensating for the ambivalence of human rights discourse about the possibility of its own enforcement through the law. Instead, I explore the ways in which certain texts, in the context of South Africa, enact their own irreducibility to legal categories. I make this argument through a discussion of the way the literature and the literary appear in the Report of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission alongside readings of Antjie Krog’s Begging to Be Black and Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter and The House Gun.

Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Thesis submitted for the degree of M.Phil. April 1997." Includes bibliographical references (l. 241-250). Also available in print.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Political Science Department or Field of Study, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis discusses non-judicial mechanisms for the implementation of human rights in European states. The first part of the thesis analyses the process of achieving compliance with human rights, the role of the state in the implementation of human rights, and the functions of non-judicial mechanisms. The second, third, fourth and fifth parts of the thesis examine the non-judicial mechanisms that states are required to put in place to achieve better compliance with human rights. The following non-judicial mechanisms are discussed: national human rights institutions, human rights indicators, human rights impact assessments, and national human rights action plans. The last part aims to bring these non-judicial mechanisms into a wider perspective. The thesis is written in English and its territorial area of application is limited to the Council of Europe. / Cette thèse porte sur les mécanismes non juridictionnels de mise en œuvre des droits de l’homme dans les pays européens. La première partie de la thèse analyse le processus entraînant le respect des droits de l’homme, le rôle de l’état dans la mise en œuvre de ces droits, et les fonctions des mécanismes non juridictionnels. Les seconde, troisième, quatrième et cinquième parties de la thèse examinent les mécanismes non juridictionnels que les Etats sont tenus de mettre en place afin d’assurer un meilleur respect des droits de l’homme. Les mécanismes non juridictionnels suivants sont abordés : les institutions nationales des droits de l’homme, les indicateurs de droits de l’homme, les études d’impact sur les droits de l’homme, et les plans d’action nationaux en matière de droits de l’homme. La dernière partie vise à inscrire ces mécanismes dans une perspective plus large. La thèse est écrite en anglais et son champ d’application territorial est limité au Conseil de l’Europe.

This thesis discusses non-judicial mechanisms for the implementation of human rights in European states. The first part of the thesis analyses the process of achieving compliance with human rights, the role of the state in the implementation of human rights, and the functions of non-judicial mechanisms. The second, third, fourth and fifth parts of the thesis examine the non-judicial mechanisms that states are required to put in place to achieve better compliance with human rights. The following non-judicial mechanisms are discussed: national human rights institutions, human rights indicators, human rights impact assessments, and national human rights action plans. The last part aims to bring these non-judicial mechanisms into a wider perspective. The thesis is written in English and its territorial area of application is limited to the Council of Europe. / Cette thèse porte sur les mécanismes non juridictionnels de mise en œuvre des droits de l’homme dans les pays européens. La première partie de la thèse analyse le processus entraînant le respect des droits de l’homme, le rôle de l’état dans la mise en œuvre de ces droits, et les fonctions des mécanismes non juridictionnels. Les seconde, troisième, quatrième et cinquième parties de la thèse examinent les mécanismes non juridictionnels que les Etats sont tenus de mettre en place afin d’assurer un meilleur respect des droits de l’homme. Les mécanismes non juridictionnels suivants sont abordés : les institutions nationales des droits de l’homme, les indicateurs de droits de l’homme, les études d’impact sur les droits de l’homme, et les plans d’action nationaux en matière de droits de l’homme. La dernière partie vise à inscrire ces mécanismes dans une perspective plus large. La thèse est écrite en anglais et son champ d’application territorial est limité au Conseil de l’Europe.

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Thesis (M.A.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2007. / Adviser: Claude E. Welch. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 107-110).