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Every year the regional master’s programmes of Global Campus of Human Rights select the best master theses of the previous academic year. The selected seven GC master theses cover a range of different international human rights topics and challenges. Adding to the GC master theses, are selections of Master’s theses which most programmes award on a yearly basis
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Blockchain and journalism: the intersection between blockchain-based technology and freedom of the press
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)Quality journalism is essential to democracy, as it is a means of empowering people with information. Yet, journalists, and press freedom itself, are under threat. The number of journalist assassinations and forced di ... -
“A community of shared destiny” : how China is reshaping human rights in Southeast Asia
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)As China re-emerges on the world stage as a great power, fuelled by intertwined ethno-nationalism and a sense of manifest destiny with roots on its identity as a civilisational state, it is increasingly seeking to reshape ... -
The use of human rights law in climate change litigation : inquiring human rights obligations of States in the context of climate change; and the use of human rights law in Urgenda and other climate cases
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)Climate litigation has become very popular in recent years. Increasing numbers of citizens are taking their governments to court for their lack of action to combat climate change. Many of these lawsuits are (partly) based ... -
In pain thou shalt bring forth children? For a human right to pain relief in childbirth
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)In recent years, increasing attention has been dedicated to the quality of childbirth conditions for women around the world, following the wave of civil society movements that promoted the protection of human rights ... -
Remembering without confronting : memorialization as a reparation without coming to terms with the past. Case study: Ulucanlar Prison Museum
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)The aim of the present study is to analyse Ulucanlar Prison Museum, as an example of the memorial museum genre, and as a memorialisation attempt of an era which was marked with a confrontation discourse in Turkey. The ... -
United Nations’ doublethink: economic sanctions and human rights protection
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2018)The most common understanding of ‘use of force’ is associated with military coercion. Examinations in the political and public spheres as well as legal inquiries are extensively provided to most armed conflicts, also in ... -
Community intervention as a means to destigmatize child soldiers and permit reintegration: a comparison case study of Uganda and Iraq
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2018)The stigmatization of former child soldiers inhibits and prevents a child’s reintegration by re-victimizing and re-traumatizing the child and also making the child an outcast in their community. Additionally, there is ... -
“Resistilience”: women’s resistance and resilience in post eviction in North Jakarta
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2018)ABSTRACT The home is mainly a place of paid and unpaid care work for women in poor urban communities in North Jakarta. This thesis substantiates the claim that forced eviction constitutes not only a violation of human ... -
The constitutionality of religious education in Uganda
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2018)The 1995 Constitution of the Republic of Uganda is the first of Uganda’s constitutions to attempt to regulate church-state relations. Article 7 provides that Uganda ‘shall not adopt a state religion.’ This study attempts ... -
Between localised practices and global imaginaries of boycott and peace: decolonial reflections on BDS in Palestine
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2018)Since its formal inception in 2005, the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) has been a central tactic of the global struggle against the Israeli occupation of Palestine and its normalisation. It has also been at the ... -
The influence of extractive companies on police action in socio-environmental conflicts in Peru: analysis and legal contributions from the cases of Xstrata and Yanacocha companies in the period 2011-2012
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2018)This research analyses the influence that extractive companies have on police intervention through extraordinary services in socioenvironmental conflicts, in the Peruvian regions of Cusco and Cajamarca between 2011-2012. ... -
Comparative analysis of minority women rights protection in Moldova and Ukraine in the light of the international human rights standards
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2018)The current research ‘Comparative Analysis of Minority Women Rights Protection in Moldova and Ukraine in the Light of the International Human Rights Standards’/ «Մոլդովայում և Ուկրաինայում փոքրամասնություն կազմող կանանց ... -
The making of human rights polities: contentious governance and the uneven implementation of human rights. The case of irregular migrants’ unequal access to healthcare in Spain after Royal Decree Law 16/2012
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2018)The emergence of ‘new nationalism’ undermines the principle of universality and threatens the realisation of human rights of irregular migrants. Within this context, and that of an economic crisis, Royal Decree-Law ... -
Is offshoring the solution? The EU and the extraterritorial processing of asylum claims
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2018)This thesis explores the topic of the extra territorialisation of processing of asylum claims by the European Union (EU) and its member states (MS). In particular, it focuses on the compatibility of the creation of ... -
Images and human rights: towards sovereignty or subversion
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2018)The aim of this thesis is to investigate the impact of images upon the human rights movement. It will examine the potential of images to advance and repress human rights by drawing out trends in the ways images are ... -
Pragmatic peace : the UNTAES peacekeeping mission as example for peaceful reintegration of occupied multiethnic territories
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2018)Twenty years after the armed conflict in Croatia ended with the completion of the Peaceful Reintegration of the Danube region on 15 January 1998, the war still echoes in the Croatian society. In contrast, the United ... -
“Slowly, incest is being legalized throughout Europe” : detecting human rights vulnerabilities in fake news using critical discourse analysis
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2018)Liberal democracy has struggled to respond to so-called fake news. The term is used to describe content and discredit the media, and it is increasingly seen as the tool of illiberal actors. This research examines how ... -
The power within music : human rights in the context of music
(EIUC, 2017)‘Music has an elaborate history in human civilization’ by providing one of humanity’s most essential cultural expressions and being instrumentalised in diverse ways. The power of music to mobilise people through propaganda, ... -
Blood or soil, which one is thicker? : the obligations of EU member-states for the international protection of stateless children
(EIUC, 2017)Statelessness has grave implications for the lives of millions of children across the globe. Without a nationality, children cannot have their rights effectively protected, despite the international protections enshrined ... -
Hope for the Northern triangle's lost generation : battling detention of unaccompanied children at the Southern border of México
(EIUC, 2017)Since former President Barack Obama declared a humanitarian crisis in 2014, a time when up to 50,000 unaccompanied children crossed into the United States, cooperation between the US and Mexico to control the tide of ...
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