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Conference Paper Presented at the Pacific Constitutions Research Network Conference: 23-25 November 2016, University of South Pacific, School of Law, Emalus Campus, Port Vila, Vanuatu

Powerpoint presentation can be accessed on http://www.paclii.org/pcn/publications2.html

Abstract

The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) is a Freely Associated State of the United States of America (USA) of which more than sixty percent of the country's GDP is provided through the Compact of Free Association Agreement. The Compact grant assistance was provided with the aim to assist in the development of the RMI's economy, and establishes the Compact Trust Fund (CTF) for long-term budgetary self-reliance for the RMI Government. Base on the CTF's performance to date, it ...

Academic paper which gives account of the domestic implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Person with Disabilities  (UNRPD) in the Marshall Islands. It is a personal reflection with critiques and comments on some of the work involved in the domestication of the UNRPPD in the Marshall Islands.

Published in Corinne Lennox (ed.), Contemporary Challenges in Securing Human Rights, London: Institute of Commonwealth Studies; Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study...