Human Rights: Recent submissions
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En policyanalys av Sidas styrdokument angående deras integrering av FN:s ramverk Human Rights Based Approach
(2020-02-18)Human rights became an important part of the development aid sector in 2003, due to the UN framework Human Rights Based Approach, HRBA. It is used across the sector, including within the Swedish state aid agency, Sida. ... -
Rights, Religion and Atrocity Prevention - An explorative field study of the involvement of religious leaders in Uganda
(2019-12-17)This study examines the nexus of human rights, atrocity prevention and the involvement of religious leaders in Uganda. States hold legal responsibility for preventing atrocity crimes, but influential nonstate actors also ... -
Ensamkommande och försvunna barn är också rättighetsbärare – En analys av barnrättsperspektivet och sociala konstruktioner i uppdrag, kartläggning och åtgärdsförslag om ensamkommande barn som försvinner
(2019-09-20)In 2015, over 35 000 unaccompanied minors arrived in Sweden. As a result of a more strictly regulated migration policy and changes in legislation, some of them have deviated. The knowledge about deviation is low, whereupon ... -
Humanizing (Anti)corruption: The socio-legal values of a human rights-based approach to corruption
(2019-09-03)This master’s thesis intends to contribute to the current academic and policy debate on the values of determining whether a particular human rights violation was caused by a corrupt behavior; and to defend a human rights-based ... -
Changing Norms about Life Skills and Sexuality Education through Empowerment: A study of public secondary life skills teachers’ experiences and perceptions in Zanzibar
(2019-08-13)Formal life skills education, including topics related to sexuality, was developed in the 1990s to prevent HIV/AIDS as well as a method to strengthen ‘good’ behaviours among students in schools. In Zanzibar, life skills ... -
Bare Life of Unaccompanied Children: A Critique on the Human Rights State-Centrism and the Right to Asylum in Sweden
(2018-09-25)The question of asylum seekers and refugee rights is one of the main examples which reveals the paradox of the citizen rights and human rights. This thesis aims to analyse the U-turn asylum policy of Sweden regarding ... -
Factors Influencing Child Trafficking: An analysis of cases reported in Ghana
(2018-09-25)Trafficking in persons is a global challenge. Several millions of victims are affected by trafficking annually. Most of these victims are children who are exploited sexually and into forced labour. There have been global ... -
Media Discourse of the Right to Privacy under Surveillance: An analysis of the media coverage from post-9/11 to post-Snowden US
(2018-09-21)The right to privacy in the age of surveillance is a long-standing controversial issue. This controversy first heightened in 2001, after 9/11 terrorist attacks; and again in 2013, after Edward Snowden‘s mass surveillance ... -
Nationella minoriteter och det kommunala ansvaret: En fallstudie om Uddevalla kommun och den sverigefinska minoriteten
(2018-09-10)Minority languages has in a historical perspective been marginalised in Sweden. At the year of 2000 were 5 national minorities and their languages officially recognised as minority languages (Finnish, Meänkieli, Sami, ... -
A Human Rights Based Approach: An Option for Attaining Sustainable Development in Cameroon
(2018-03-15)This dissertation discusses the importance of human rights to the attainment of development. All human rights are indivisible, whether they are civil and political rights, such as the right to life, equality before the law ... -
ROUTINES AND SOCIAL PRACTICE: A qualitative thesis about the relationship between societal actors and Unaccompanied Minor Asylum Seekers in Sweden
(2018-03-14)The purpose of the thesis was to: (1) Investigate if Sweden fails to fulfil the obligations as stated in article 3, 6, 22, 33 – 37 of the CRC (1989) concerning their treatment of UMAS in Sweden; (2) Investigate the perspective ... -
”Det får ju inte drabba barnen” – en studie om villkor och mänskliga rättigheter inom ekonomiskt bistånd
(2017-12-06)Everyone has the right to an adequate standard of living according to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and cultural rights article 11. In Sweden, one way of working with the realization of this article is the ... -
Är ID-kontrollagen (2015:1073) i konflikt med flyktingarnas rättigheter?
(2017-12-06)In December 2015 the Swedish Parliament passed a law that gave the Government extensive rights to limit the high flow of refugees/migrants coming into Sweden that autumn. The impact of the law could potentially impact the ... -
A Qualitative Approach to Refugee Law and International Migrant Legislation: The Life Stories of Venezuelan Emigrants
(2017-10-04)This research studies the Venezuelan emigrants’ case in order to contest refugee law and international migrant legislation. Fragments-of-life-stories & semi-structured interviews were used as bottom-up approach, and document ... -
Financialization and human rights abuses provoked by business: the case of Samarco disaster in Brazil
(2017-09-13)The aim of this study is to explore the implications of the financialization process on human rights compliance by business, based on an analysis of the Samarco case, in Brazil. In 2015, Samarco Company’s tailing dam ... -
Intersectionality and the Vulnerability of Irregular Migrant Women to Sexual Assault: the Journey and Arrival to the U.S./Mexico Border
(2017-08-09)This research looks at the sexual assault of irregular migrant women on the journey and arrival to the United States/Mexico border from an intersectional perspective. It aims to analyze this topic through understanding ... -
Unaccompanied Refugee Children in Greece and Their right to Family Reunification with family members in other EU countries: An explorative and explanatory study of the implementation of Dublin Regulation in Greek national legislation
(2017-07-03)Unaccompanied children/minors (UAC) represents a large proportion of the demography of refugees in Greece, and many of them have families in other EU countries they wish to be reunited with. However, the increasingly ... -
Are polygamous marriages to be considered a human rights violation or a human rights realization in the contexts of Sweden and Tanzania?
(2017-06-28)This two-case study “Are polygamous marriages to be considered a human rights violation or a human rights realization in the contexts of Sweden and Tanzania?” focuses on whether polygamous marriages can be considered a ...