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Child trafficking in the wake of disaster: investigations and paths for improvements in the frameworks surrounding disaster response and child trafficking
(2016)
This thesis argues that a new comprehensive and preferably binding instrument is needed to protect children against trafficking and many other adverse effects of disasters. The issue at stake is that children are made more ...
When the battle continues : the (lack of) protection of LGBT asylum-seekers in the EU asylum system
(2016)
This thesis gives an overview of the multi-fronted battle LGBT* asylum-seekers must often fight to receive protection from discrimination and violence. As an introduction, it discusses the kinds of homo- and transphobic ...
The disregarded fundamental principle of distinction in the Syrian conflict: what expectations for the currently deadlocked international criminal justice?
(2016)
This thesis explores the unlawful killings targeting civilians taking place in the Syrian noninternational armed conflict, and the options for an action from international criminal justice, almost inactive after six years ...
Turning the tide : investigating the European Union’s approach to environmentally displaced people and advancing human rights based solutions
(2016)
Among the adverse effects of climate change, the phenomenon of forced human displacement is often overlooked. Above all, this creates challenges to the recognition and protection of the human rights of those displaced. ...
The repression of the political opposition in Russia's courtrooms : the Russian judiciary and the European Court Human Rights: a case study
(2016)
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia has made some significant steps in the implementation of the three pillars of the Council of Europe (joined by Russia in 1996). However, Russian opposition politicians ...
"But they told us they would not torture them…" vs. "If you want a serious interrogation, you send a prisoner to Jordan. If you want them to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear— never to see them again—you send them to Egypt" : a legal, political and philosophical analysis of US extraordinary renditions and European involvement therein
(2016)
The purpose of this paper is to examine the US extraordinary renditions to torture and the European involvement therein from a legal, political and moral point of view. I am advancing my analysis through a comparative case ...
Euthanasia, one’s final human right? : the case of euthanasia for children
(2016)
This thesis deals with the case of euthanasia for children. In the context of my research, euthanasia refers to the situation in which a physician ends the life (euthanasia in the strict sense) or helps ending the life ...
Pluralisation of identities: shifting citizenship conceptions, national narratives and European education going global? : the case of BNE in Germany
(2016)
In times defined as uncertain, ‘liquid’, ‘flat’, globally interdependent and ‘post-national’ traditional national citizenship and citizenship education concepts are shifting and turning into transformative forces to activate, ...
Human rights defenders on the face of shrinking civil society space : the case of Russia and Hungary
(2016)
Civil society has been acknowledged to be of increasing significance within the political science and the social research, emphasising its role in advancing democracy. However, in the recent years, civil society is facing ...
Should schools come with a warning sign? : indoctrination at school and the right to quality education
(2016)
This thesis intends to question the common presumption that education is “good” for children. It draws the attention to the possibility of indoctrination at school and examines how this relates to the right to education ...