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European Master in Human Rights and Democratisation Theses written in partial fulfilment of master's degree
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Building new fences? : security concerns and protection of aliens at the European borders
(2010)This research paper aims to examine the compatibility of border controls with the human rights standards that the EU and its Member States are bound to. For that purpose, expulsion has been chosen as the comparative element, ... -
Non-state actors in non-international armed conflicts and IHL: to engage or not to engage?
(2010)This study is conducted to find out in what ways compliance with international humanitarian law (IHL) by non-state actors can best be improved. Therefore the study first looks into the traditional framework of IHL that ... -
Critical analysis of Ethiopias action against internal child trafficking
(2010)Large proportions of Ethiopian children are exposed to violation without having care and treatment from the State and their parents by the mere fact of violation of their rights and interests of children. As a result, they ... -
The main stages of the case of Darfur: taking a closer look at the commission of inquiry on Darfur, the Security Council, and the International Criminal Court
(2010)The text at hand deals with the situation in Darfur which has been referred by the Security Council via Resolution 1593 to the International Criminal Court. An analysis of the Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Darfur ... -
Democracy in new European countries: from where? case study: Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo
(2010)After the fall of the Berlin wall, the conflicts in the contemporary world changed their nature, from an inter-state to inter-ethnic. There have been many discussions about the sovereignty of the States and the humanitarian ... -
Infants and young children in prison: a comparative study on the practices in France and Sweden
(2010)Every year, a too important number of children are confronted to prison in one way or another; not because they have been themselves convicted, but because one of both of their parents have been sentence to imprisonment. ... -
Common environmental concerns leading to common strategies? : the cross-regional partnership between Africa and Europe in environmental matters : background and approaches of the development of an environmental human right
(2010)The environmental issue in all its variety is currently one of the most important issues on the international community`s agenda – an important aspect thereby is the connection between the environment and human rights. The ... -
Litigation practices of non-governmental organisations before the European Court of Human Rights
(2010)This thesis explores the litigation practices of non-governmental organisations dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights before the European Court of Human Rights. These practices encompass mainly the ... -
Chinese cultural values and international human rights: how to conduct empirical human rights field work in China
(2010)This paper discusses how to conduct empirical human rights research at a local level in China. It draws upon the receptor approach, which is a novel approach to human rights, attempting to go beyond the universalism-relativism ... -
The relationship of the World Court of Human Rights with the United Nations human rights monitoring bodies
(2010)This thesis deals with the World Court of Human Rights and its relationship with the United Nations human rights bodies. Based on the Draft Statute by Kozma, Nowak and Scheinin, this thesis analyses how the World Court ... -
Indigenous justice systems in Guatemala: barrier or opportunity for women?
(2010)Indigenous justice systems have often been criticised for violating women’s rights, yet it is not clear how justice systems in communities with changing power structures and influences from both ladino and indigenous ... -
Export processing zones : creating human rights blind spots
(2010)This paper will analyze Export Processing Zones (EPZs), a mechanism created by developing states namely to attract foreign investment and increase their export earnings. An economic analysis will bring to light the reasons ... -
Quasi-private standards: potentialities to meet the criticisms of international environmental law?
(2010)The thesis starts from the observation that the traditional international environmental law fails to answer the issues it intended to address. The traditional treaty-making processes and interstates negotiations have ... -
La situation des mineurs prives de liberte en Europe : etat des lieux a l’epreuve des droits de l’homme
(2010)Aujourd’hui, en Europe et dans le monde, un grand nombre de mineurs sont privés de liberté. Au-delà de savoir si l’enfermement constitue la solution au problème de la délinquance juvénile ou de l’immigration, nous nous ... -
The debate on indigenous peoples rights in international law : assessing the impact of the United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples in Mexico
(2010)The research begins with a broad overview of the main features of the contemporary debate about multiculturalism, from the perspectives of the political theory and the international human rights law. The second chapter ... -
s the convergence of human development and human rights finally a real possibility? : the analysis of the European vision on development from a bidimensional perspective: the development and human rights based approaches
(2010)This thesis analyses the document European Vision on Development that was published by European Commission in 2006 as part of the European Consensus on Development. This document contains shared values, objectives and ... -
Extraterritorial human rights obligations of the European Union in the context of the economic partnership agreement with the ACP states
(2010)This thesis examines the extraterritorial human rights obligations of the EU in the context of the Economic Partnership Agreements with the ACP states. It clarifies that these agreements engender substantial negative effects ... -
Citizenship, democracy, education and the demands of the twenty-first century
(2010)This thesis deals with citizenship education in democratic societies. Many of the issues democratic societies have to deal with have made clear that the health and the stability of a modern democracy depend not only on the ... -
Behind closed doors? : detention of irregular migrants, human rights violations and monitoring mechanisms
(2010)This study investigates the human rights implications of the administrative detention of irregular migrants within the European Union and looks for a possible way to prevent violations in detention centres, with a specific ... -
Human rights after Guantanamo? : essay from a civil rights perspective on the situation of ex-Guantanamo detainees in Europe
(2010)The purpose of this master thesis is to find out whether the civil rights of ex-GTMO detainees in Europe are respected. To answer the research question, five specific recurrent common issues of ex-GTMO detainees in Europe ...
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