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The Boundaries of Tradition: An Examination of the Traditional Leadership and Governance Framework Act

The Boundaries of Tradition: An Examination of the Traditional Leadership and Governance Framework Act

  • By Thuto Thipe
  • November 04, 2014
  • 1 Comment

Thuto Thipe is a researcher with the Centre for Law and Society at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research areas include governance systems and the state’s role in constructing group identities. Her research has contributed to policy [...]

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Welcome to HHRJ!

The Harvard Human Rights Journal was founded in 1988 and has since endeavored to be a site for a broad spectrum of scholarship on international and domestic human rights issues. Once a year, the Journal publishes a range of original scholarly works on human rights issues of contemporary relevance.

Current Issue: Volume 31

Volume 31, Spring 2018

ARTICLES

The Challenge of Trokosi: Ritual Servitude and the Framework of International Human Rights Law 
Michael S. Talbot

Turkey's Hidden Wars
Kathleen A. Cavanaugh

"Let Them Eat Cake": Examining United States Retirement Savings Policy through the Lens of International Human Rights Principles
Regina T. Jefferson

Ukraine's Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights: Strengthening Human Rights Promotion and Protection?
Linda C. Reif

Rights in the Populist Era, A Comment on Bayev v. Russia (ECtHR): More Didactic than Persuasive?
Kushtrim Istrefi and Emma Irving

Towards Enforceable Labor Rights in U.S. Free Trade Agreements
Zach Lenox and Andrew Arsht
Amy Raub, Isabel Latz, Aleta Sprague, Michael Ashley Stein, and Jody Heymann

 

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