The Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act recently enacted by Nigeriacriminalizes marriage or civil union between persons of the same sex;solemnization of same sex marriage or
civil union or witnessing, aiding orabetting the same; registration, operation, membership or support of gay clubs;public show of same sex amorous relationship and [...]
The paper posits that the notion of universal fundamental human rights for all underpins all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly.
It provides human dignity moorings for the SDGs as the SDGs are constitutive of universal dignity values in terms of which no human being should be sidelined in human [...]
Botswana, unlike its economically more powerful neighbour, South Africa, retains capital punishment, (death by hanging), for the crime of murder where no extenuating circumstances
are found. Presumably fearing the imposition of this penalty, individuals charged with murder in some cases cross the border into South Africa. [...]
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2006, (CRPD) opened the door to the enjoyment of human rights by persons living with disabilities in equal measure
with the rest of humanity as mandated by the foundational International Bill of Human Rights (IBHR), viz. [...]
This article considers whether or not international refugee law is effective in its protection of refugees and asylum seekers from refoulement by the state in which they are
taking refuge. It asks the question whether the legal right to non refoulement is a myth or a reality. [...]
This paper seeks to critically assess whether humanitarian intervention has become an exception to the prohibition on the use of force under Article 2 (4) of the United Nations
Charter. The paper adopts a two pronged approach to the question. First, it examines whether or not Article 2 (4) of the UN Charter can be interpreted in a manner [...]
This assignment is a scrutiny of how Botswana (Democratic State), a politically stable country for the first time since independence terminated contract for essential services
section in Government abruptly, due to conditional salary increase of 5% increase, hence Trade Unions proposing an increase from 16% to 13.8%, this was during Lt [...]
This article is a celebration of the vendetta of two anti-establishment songwriters in Cameroon. It chronicles the protest trajectory undertaken by Lapiro de Mbanga and Valsero,
alias Le Général against the government of the President of Cameroon, a cancerous regime that thrives on the rape of democracy, human rights abuses, and the emasculation [...]
The summative intent of this article is to offer an assessment of the conformity or otherwise of the Botswana Arbitration Act of 1959 to the requirements of modern international
commercial arbitration. The article indicates that the Botswana Arbitration Act (the Act) is archaic and unsuited for arbitration to the extent that it presents numerous [...]
