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## Meet the editor

Dr. Trudy Corrigan is an assistant professor at Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland. She is a staff member in the School of Policy and Practice at DCU and a research fellow at the Dublin City University Anti-Bullying Centre. Her research interests include adult education, lifelong learning, and intergenerational learning. She was recently a recipient of the New Foundations Irish Research Award in partnership with the Age & Opportu-

nity organization, whose research evaluates ageism and bullying in the workplace. The organization's aim is to provide a solution-oriented approach to addressing ageism through policies and practices relevant to employers and employees. Dr. Corrigan is passionate about human rights across a variety of disciplines, including education, health, sociology, culture, and the arts. She is interested in providing multi-disciplinary spaces through both the printed word and online media to disseminate the work of those who want to ensure that human rights are adhered to and upheld. This is to enable the narrative, research, and voice of academics and practitioners interested in promoting human rights to be heard and shared in a contemporary world.

Contents

*by Trudy Corrigan*

*by Nanche Billa Robert*

Voices from Ghana *by Obed Adonteng-Kissi*

*by Deepak Basumatary*

Women's Rights

Land Governance

*by John P. Williams*

*by Simon Hull and Jennifer Whittal*

*by Chris Jones*

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 15**

**Chapter 3 39**

**Chapter 4 55**

**Chapter 5 69**

**Chapter 6 81**

**Chapter 7 93**

**Chapter 8 111**

**Chapter 9 131**

Exploring the Tension between the Rights of the Child and Parental Rights:

The Realisation of Human Rights Issues of Older People in Contemporary

Ireland to Ensure Equal Life Opportunities

Protest March Restrictions in Cameroon

Death Penalty: A Human Rights Issue for South Africa

*by Ana Cristina González-Vélez and Laura Castro González*

Digital Children's Right: Human Right Perspective

Queer/Disabled Existence: Human Rights of People with Disability

The Use of Criminal Law on Abortion: A Structural Barrier that Limits

*by Muhammad Bello Nawaila, Umar Mohammed Kani and Sezer Kanbul*

Human Rights and Land in Africa: Highlighting the Need for Democratic

Equality before the Law Matters: The Legacy of American Jews and the Founding of the NAACP and the Modern Civil Rights Movement

## Contents


*by John P. Williams*

Preface

This book provides an important worldview perspective of human rights. It provides a compelling narrative to give voice to authors from a variety of interdisciplinary and diverse perspectives across the world. Their narratives and research are drawn from human rights issues related to law, education, sociology, literature, health, and history. The authors illuminate how issues of human rights need to be respected and protected in their communities and countries. Through their work, this book is representative of people, culture, and communities in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The narrative, reporting, opinions, and research of the authors are a call to respect the rights of all people in their communities. This is regardless of gender, ability, race, age, sexual orientation, religion, or civil status. It is an interdisciplinary understanding of how human rights, developed as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and accepted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1948, can still be disrespected, misunderstood, or ignored.

Each chapter calls attention to the need to understand the implications of the practice of human rights and to ensure that these rights are upheld. This is to eliminate oppression, prejudice, and suffering of all people where human rights are not observed and implemented. It provides a spotlight on communities or people who have been hindered by a lack of understanding of human rights practices. The key themes highlighted draw on the voice and the opinions of the authors. This is evidenced in the reflection of some on history and literature. For others, it is based on their experience and reportage of human rights policy and practices that have been ignored. For others, it is embedded in their research and work that strives to

This book highlights the need to protect human rights and gives voice to authors who aim to make a difference in achieving the successful and peaceful implementation of the practice of human rights through their published work. This is specifically related to people in their communities and in their own countries. This is of great importance in their writing of these chapters. This global understanding of world issues related to human rights demonstrates how people, campaigns, and understanding of human rights need to be respected. We hope that this book will inspire those who read it to uphold the structures, policies, and practices to promote human rights. This is to ensure that the dignity and human rights of all people are upheld and respected in

**Dr. Trudy Corrigan**

Dublin City University,

Dublin, Ireland

School of Policy and Practice, National Anti Bullying Centre,

ensure that human rights are respected.

our modern world.
