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Even the Greatest Violations of Human Rights are Legal: How International Legal Frameworks Failed Human Rights in Palestine

Bari, Iqra (2024) Even the Greatest Violations of Human Rights are Legal: How International Legal Frameworks Failed Human Rights in Palestine. Master of Laws thesis, Dublin City University.

Abstract
The study aims to analyse how the Palestinian people have been suffering at the hands of legal jurisdictions and how this potentially could have been prevented. In cases of human conflicts, it is natural to wonder how such occurrences take place when we would like to assume as an international community, we have advanced so far legally, instead, we are reminded that perhaps legislation and legal frameworks have not caught up to where they need to be in addressing these situations of crisis. However, it is also valuable to consider any ways in which legal frameworks have indeed developed over time and were able to play an active role in preventing crimes against humanity, perhaps their shortcomings are without deliberateness. This very dilemma has been faced by the people of Palestine for decades now with their basic freedom and independence in the shadow as a result of the diaspora they are facing.The main question the study will critically address is how the devastating fate that has been endured by Palestinians has essentially been aggravated by the failures of legal frameworks from the United Nations systems, governmental structures and the international courts. In doing this, it also aims to offer understandings of how these jurisdictions failed to adequately protect and prioritise Palestinian human rights and highlight where alternative legal action could have prevented the catastrophic losses faced by the Palestinian people.
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Item Type:Thesis (Master of Laws)
Date of Award:August 2024
Refereed:No
Supervisor(s):Keane, David
Uncontrolled Keywords:International Law, Palestine, Legal Issues, The United Nations Functions, Security Council, Veto, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, Special Procedures & Rapporteurs, The International Court of Justice & Criminal Court, International Law vs Legal Frameworks, United Nations General Assembly, International Humanitarian Law, Palestinian Human Rights, Palestinian History, The Balfour Declaration, Zionism, The League of Nations, The Palestinian Nakba and its Continuous Repercussions, Chapter VII provision of the United Nations Charter, Palestinian Liberation Organisation, Oslo Accords, Draft, Resolutions, Second Intifada, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Commission on Human Rights, United Nations Human Rights Council, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, UNRWA, Anatomy of a Genocide, International Court of Justice (ICJ), International Criminal Court (ICC), Legal Consequences Arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem, Advisory Opinion, International Law vs Legal Frameworks, Zionist Regime,
Subjects:Social Sciences > International relations
Social Sciences > Law
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Law and Government
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. View License
ID Code:31081
Deposited On:04 Jun 2025 11:52 by Iqra Bari . Last Modified 04 Jun 2025 11:52
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