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  • The challenges regarding the protection and education on the rights of children : an overview of the situation of the child within the legal and practical compliance in Lebanon 
    Zammar, Rebecca (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2020)
    Children in Lebanon suffer desecrations of their rights because governments fail to enforce laws and regulations and to generate the economic and social conditions essential for a better living situation for children. Despite the armed conflict that consumed the country and its institutions for a long time until 1989, Lebanon ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child relatively quickly. The CRC is a unique human rights agreement in that it safeguards not only the child's civil and political rights but that it also brings protection to the child's economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian ...
  • The future of freedom of expression, privacy, and democratic governance at the digital age 
    Nassar, Nivine (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2020)
    The twenty-first century cyberspace offers unprecedented opportunities for prosperity and development, but also a series of new and evolving threats to international peace, security, and human rights. For some years now, there have been sustained efforts from civil society groups across the world to harness the Internet for human rights causes. However, by publicizing human rights abuses in near-real time to mass audiences, the new uses of digital technologies may also challenge the legitimacy of the international legal order itself, especially if states are not able to action their legal ...
  • Mohammad Ben Salman's Saudi Arabia : a quest for regional hegemony 
    Souad, Rami (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2023-02)
    2015 was a revolutionary year in Saudi Arabian history, marked by the controversial ascension to power of Crown Prince Mohammad Ben Salman, son of King Salman. During his subsequent reign, Crown Prince Ben Salman has set the firm objective of restoring Saudi Hegemony, a goal which he is concurrently pursuing ever since using a combination of changes implemented to domestic and foreign affairs. Whilst enforcing a change in historical political narrative in such short period of time is painted as unrealistic and unachievable, Mohammad Ben Salman’s ambition and determination, combined with his ...
  • Nationalism and self-determination : should Nagaland declare itself an independent state? 
    Ghabris, Mohamed K. (Notre Dame University-Louaize., 2019-07-24)
    There has been a cry and a struggle from the Nagas calling for a separate state for over 3 decades now, as it was evident and outlined in several academic articles, different types research, Naga authors and Indian local news1. There is a crisis in the Northeast, in particular, ‘Nagaland’, a crisis that calls for separation, a need for political attention and an expression of poor investments in social and economic infrastructures across Nagaland. Bearing in mind the political corruption that is situated across Nagaland diminishes all aspects or attempts of social, economic, and political ...
  • The prospects of Irish unity after Brexit : a review of historical & current factors pertaining to the prospects of Irish unity after Brexit 
    Naoum Sawaya, Amal (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2021)
    The topic of Irish unity has recently resurfaced to the headlines, after Brexit began in 2016. The dissertation was motivated by the pursuit to analyze the prospects of Irish unity, its timeline, and the factors affecting unity. In order to achieve the goal of the dissertation, an analytical approach was used to study historical, economic, social, and political indicators in Northern Ireland, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the European Union. These indicators form a cohesive picture regarding the possibility of Irish unity after Brexit. The dissertation finds that Irish unity was re-triggered ...
  • South China sea maritime dispute : sovereignty over the Paracel and Spratly islands 
    Al Helou, Hoda W. (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2015)
    The central subject in the South China Sea is over who has power and rule over the islands and their adjacent waters as well as independent right and influence in the exclusive economic zone and continental shelf determined from the islands, low-tide elevations, the exclusive economic zone, the continental shelf, maritime boundary delimitation and dispute settlement are all valid and support in resolving and highlighting the issue of the South China Sea. The ASEAN claimants, mostly since 2009, have gone through several procedures and modifications in their demands to clarify their claims trying ...
  • Troubled waters : the political and legal aspects of Israel's violations of the Palestinian's right to water 
    Bou Khalil, Joe-Anna (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2020)
    This study presents and analyzes the political and legal aspects of the violations committed by Israel regarding the Palestinians’ right to water. The study introduces the geography of Palestine and its water sources; tackles the historical background underlying the value and significance of water in religious and Zionist thought; assesses the political impact of the recognition of Palestine as a nonmember observer state in the United Nations on Palestinian water rights; evaluates the legal dimensions of the Israeli violations of the Palestinian people's right to water resources starting ...

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