National Mechanisms for Ensuring Social Rights

Ensuring Connectivity via Data Plane Mechanisms

We typically think of network architectures as having two basic components: a data plane responsible for forwarding packets at line-speed, and a control plane that instantiates the forwarding state the data plane needs. With this separation of concerns, ensuring connectivity is the responsibility of the control plane. However, the control plane typically operates at timescales several orders of...

Basic Social Services for All? Ensuring Accountability Through

Significant changes in the global setting over the course of the last few decades resulted in an increasing prominence for the pursuit of transnational justice and individual accountability. The aftermath of the terrifying attacks on America on September 3. Making deep democratic decentralisation work • Moves towards democratic decentralisation in India • Elementary schools: Cake for the rich, ...

On Individual and Social Rights

The debate about the status and purpose of individual rights as against social rights depends a great deal on how we define these terms. Although it is difficult to come to a definitive philosophical or jurisprudential conclusion about social versus individual rights, textbooks on human rights recognize the difference between the two traditions (Gearon 2003). Furthermore, the difference between...

Ensuring human and sexual rights for men who have sex with men living with HIV.

In December 2008, Senegal hosted the International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa, a prestigious regional conference affiliated with the biannual International AIDS Conference, highlighting advancements in HIV prevention, treatment and support in Africa. After the conference, on 22 December, the Senegalese government arrested nine members of AIDES Senegal, a no...

Individual rights and social justice.