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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Understanding the Right to Change Legal Gender: A Case Study of Trans Women in Sri Lanka
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)In Sri Lanka, the lives of trans women have faced discrimination, stigmatisation, marginalisation and criminalisation. These legal, administrative and socio-cultural factors urged the state authorities to contribute to ... -
Lebanon’s October Uprising: A Clean Slate for Syrian Refugees?
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)Lebanon’s October uprising of 2019 set off a country-wide movement calling for change affecting the core of the political system. With corruption and clientelism being endemic to the sectarian political establishment ... -
Protection of Children’s Rights to Privacy and Freedom from Online Exploitation and Abuse in Southern Africa. A Case Study of South Africa and Zimbabwe
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)In the past few years there has been an increase in the number of children using the internet. The COVID-19 pandemic has further contributed to the increase in internet usage by children due to the measures taken ... -
Access to Justice for Persons with Disabilities in Kenya: from Principles to Practice
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)Approximately 15% of the world’s population experience a form of disability, with a significant number of them experiencing a severe disability. According to the 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census, about 2.2% of ... -
#Fridaysforfuture. Beyond the Hashtag on Youth Activism for Climate Justice: A Case Study of Slovenia’s Youth for Climate Justice (Mladi Za Podnebno Pravičnost, MZZP)
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)The Anthropocene logic of the ‘faster-higher-further’ perpetuates the continuous human wish and grind for more, constructing a chain of production and consumption that in reality ends up being detrimental to our ... -
“Forgotten Victims of War”. Invisible, though Stigmatised: the Case of Children Born of Wartime Rape and Conflict- Related Sexual Violence
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)Conflict-related sexual violence has many disastrous consequences, yet one consequence that is systematically ignored is the children being born as a result from such violence. This research focuses on children born of ... -
Mi derecho a tener derechos. Políticas públicas de autonomía progresiva y egreso dirigidas a adolescentes bajo cuidados alternativos en Santa Fe
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)En la provincia de Santa Fe (Argentina) la población de adolescentes que se encuentra alojada en el sistema de cuidados alternativos constituye un grupo relevante con respecto a la población total de niñas, niños ... -
Involuntary soft sterilization for ‘unfit mothers’: Best interests of the child or latent eugenics? A historical comparative approach to the Dutch Law proposal and its legitimation
(2021)Due to the atrocities that resulted from the Nazi eugenic rhetoric, many states have been reluctant to implement policies that could be read as eugenics. However, the reality is that eugenic thought is still among us. In ... -
A union between United Nations peacekeeping and conflict-related sexual violence against women : a critical analysis of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), its Gender Unit and its strategies towards conflict-related sexual violence against women in Mali
(2021)Mali has been in conflict since 2012 and since 2013 the United Nations has been present in the country with their United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). Their presence has ... -
Procedural rights from a climate justice perspective. The case of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Aarhus Convention
(2021)Climate change is a global issue that requires a global solution. It disproportionally affects certain groups of people and regions of the world which are historically less responsible for the climate crisis, by threatening ... -
The human rights due diligence of the European Investment Bank. A case study in Kenya
(2021)Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) has become an increasing trending topic in recent years. Recently, the European Union has drawn a framework for a mandatory due diligence at the European level. In the future the European ... -
City diplomacy and human rights : a multidisciplinary analysis
(2021)To deal with the challenges posed by globalization a strong and effective structure of global governance is needed. This thesis supports the idea that local governments are more adequate than states to cover the role of ... -
Patent rights or patient rights? An assessment of intellectual property and right to health within the Covid-19 pandemic
(2021)The outburst of Covid-19 and the global unequal distribution of vaccines among the world countries turned on again the existing tensions between the global rich, developed north and the global south on the role played ... -
Changing the status quo of race and capital punishment? : An evaluation of North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act
(2021)The influence of racial bias on capital punishment in the US is part of a narrative long heard and extensively discussed over the past while nothing much seemed to change. Examples of states taking measures to confront ... -
The right to water, water stress & privatization: economic or public good? A case study of the Chilean water model & a look into the future
(2021)Water is the prerequisite for enjoyment of all rights and under threat due to global water stress. The aim of this study is to examine the scope of the right to water and the state obligations connected to it in relation ... -
I do but I don’t : the effectiveness of the Forced Marriage (civil protection) Act 2007 and other legislation against forced marriage at preventing child marriage in the UK
(2021)This thesis assesses the effectiveness of the current system against forced marriage at protecting against child marriage in the UK. It considers the work of the Forced Marriage Unit, both inside and outside the UK, in ... -
Expanding upon the gendered continuum of violence: do gender norms in peacetime play a role in exacerbating armed conflict and violence against women during armed conflict? The cases of the Former Yugoslavia and the Democratic Republic of Congo
(2021)This thesis aims to expand on the gendered continuum of violence to include gender norms. In other words, do gender norms have a role in exacerbating the likelihood of an armed conflict, and how are these directly linked ... -
Towards the establishment of a fully compliant national human rights institution in Italy
(2021)This dissertation concerns the establishment of a National Human Rights Institution (NHRI) in Italy. In particular, whether the country is currently on the right track in the process of creating one that can be accredited ... -
Women, peace and security: gender norms and militarisation in Kashmir and Southern Thailand
(2021)The aim of this thesis is to uncover how gender norms affect women’s everyday lives and their agency in civil society organisations in militarized and conflict-struck societies. The thesis is designed as a qualitative ... -
Human rights education : a study of the participant's exposure to visual arts as a method
(2021)Over the last few decades, human rights education (HRE) has been increasingly deemed as a necessary condition for ensuring the enforceability of human rights. This work seeks to understand whether the absence of a ...
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