03. Global Campus Masters' Theses.
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European Regional Master's Theses in Democracy and Human Rights in South East Europe ERMA
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Improving the International Regulation of Cybersex Trafficking of Women and Children through the Use of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)Today, perpetrators of human trafficking for sexual exploitation are using cyberspace to recruit, advertise and exercise control over women and children, who are intrinsically more vulnerable to this crime. The Internet ... -
When Forgetting Is Dangerous. Transitional Justice, Collective Remembrance and Brazil’s Shift to Far-Right Populism
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)Transitional justice measures such as, inter alia, trials, truth commissions and institutional reforms or a lack thereof impact how societies deal with the past and help shape the collective memories of societies and ... -
Democratic Deficit Theory: A Reversed Approach Why Radical Political Changes in Member States Affect the Quality of Democracy in the EU
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)The thematic of the democratic deficit has stirred passions and created divisions among scholars, who find no consensus on how to answer it. Too often, the methodological approaches implemented to deal with the democratic ... -
Environmental Justice, Climate Change and Human Rights. Different Contributions, Different Consequences and Different Capabilities Should Equal Different Human Rights Obligations
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)The current environmental crisis poses itself as one of the biggest threats to the enjoyment of human rights. Everywhere, people´s human rights are at risk; however vulnerable communities, particularly the ones in poorer ... -
Securitising Children Rights: Victims and Heirs of Terrorism. A Critical Analysis of France’s Approach to Children of Foreign Terrorist Fighters
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)The complex reality of children of ISIS foreign terrorist fighters stranded in inhumane camps in Syria presents an unprecedented phenomenon but one for which a rights-based approach exists under the international child ... -
The feasibility of implementing the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in the mega-sporting events
(2020)Mega-Sporting Events are a hot topic in the field of business and human rights. They are closely linked with the negative covers of human rights violations, which has triggered many scholars' research on this topic. In the ... -
The dragon, the bear, and the eagle in Latin America : how superpower interventions affect human security in Latin America
(2020)This thesis aims to evaluate effects that superpower interventions have on human security in Latin America. The objective is to find and address possible correlations between the foreign policy of superpowers and human ... -
Sexual exploitation and abuse by MINUSTAH peacekeepers: a critical assessment of the impact of socio-cultural norms in peacekeeping
(2020)Several cases of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) involving peacekeepers have been reported during MINUSTAH. Throughout the years, the United Nations has elaborated an extensive framework concerning sexual exploitation ... -
Right to data privacy in the digital era: a critical assessment of Malawi’s data privacy protection regime
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)The proliferation of information communication technology (ICT) and consequent increase in the processing of personal data threaten the right to data privacy and related human rights. Although Malawi has comparatively ... -
Between the domination of transnational companies and its discourse on business and human rights: contract farming and banana small farmers in the Davao region (The Philippines)
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)This research examined violations towards small farmers’ rights over banana plantations – with the emphasis that the farmers held their agreements with transnational agribusiness corporations in Santo Tomas and Compostela ... -
When the forest screams. The rights of nature and indigenous rights as a mutually reinforcing resistance platform for the indigenous peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)Indigenous peoples from the Ecuadorian Amazon have historically been dispossessed from their cultural heritage and ancestral territories. In the past, these actions have been justified by the need for natural resources derived ... -
Politics of memory of the recent past in Brazil: the federal government’s role in constructing collective memory between 2003 and 2016
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)Towards the end of the 2010s, the Brazilian federal government once again made discussions about the recent past – regarding the military regime that occurred between 1964 and 1985 – public. This time, however, these ... -
Prosecution of crimes of appropriation of private property before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the international residual mechanism for criminal tribunals
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)Property rights enjoy protection not only during peacetime, but also in times of armed conflict. However, despite the existence of a well-established legal framework, these rights continue to be violated in armed conflicts ... -
Refugees and migrant access to health in transit countries: politics of adaptability, enactment of slow death and inevitability of pain: an ethnography of poor urban neighborhood in Rabat (Morocco)
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)This thesis project builds on three months of ethnographic and interview research undertaken between February-May 2019 to explore refugee and migrant access to health in one of Rabat’s poor neighbourhoods, Youssoufia, which ... -
From democracy to autocracy? Growing threats to civil society and media in Kyrgyzstan
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)Despite the repeal of the ‘foreign agent’ law in 2016 which was initiated in Kyrgyzstan to limit activities of human rights defenders, government officials still continue to oppress them by using other legislative restrictions. ... -
Positive media representation of the Bulgarian LGBTQ+ community and shifting national attitudes towards homosexuality
(2020)This thesis deals with the question of whether positive media representation can favorably affect attitudes towards the LGBTQ+ community in Bulgaria. As a post-Soviet country that recently joined the EU, Bulgaria still has ... -
Occupying the streets and spaces of power: the participation of women in politics. The case of Brazil
(2020)The aim of this thesis is to investigate whether and to which extent Brazil has been complying with its international obligations on the women’s right to political participation. I will elaborate on the relationships between ... -
Intergovernmental organizations’ impact on environmental democracy in post-soviet countries and their contribution to the transboundary cooperation: the case of OSCE in the South Caucasus region regarding the water/energy nexus
(2020)2020 marks the 22nd birthyear of the Aarhus Convention which is the regional legal document for the implementation of environmental democracy in Europe. This study provides a broad comprehension on the principle of ... -
Family life interrupted: unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the Dublin III family reunification procedure. The case of Greece and Germany
(2020)This thesis explores the topic of the legal and practical constraints of the family reunification procedure applied to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) under the Dublin III Regulation (DR III). It critically ... -
What is the future of human rights? A discussion on assisted suicide and mental health
(2020)The present paper argues that human rights are a wonderful way to understand and to introduce the debate on assisted suicide that our contemporary society needs. People with mental illness are a very vulnerable group in ...
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