Awarded Theses
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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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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 ... -
Human rights treaty body review 2020 : towards an integrated treaty body system
(EIUC, 2017)The thesis contributes to the debate on the efficient functioning of the human rights mechanisms at the universal level that were established by different human rights treaties – the treaty bodies. The system suffers from ... -
Europe at a crossroads : the EU migration crisis, a governance test for the future of the Union
(EIUC, 2017)In the context of the world’s largest refugee crisis since World War II, the European Union (EU) has to cope with unprecedented numbers of arrivals at its external borders. In light of the weekly shipwrecks and drownings ... -
Human rights of women and the phenomenon of marital rape in Ethiopia: a critical analysis
(Global Campus, 2017)Violence against women (VAW) continues to be one of the major human rights violations in Ethiopia. Marital rape, one manifestation of VAW, is not regarded as a crime under the Ethiopian criminal code. The criminal code’s ... -
Staking out a place amidst shifting soils : understanding contemporary South Africa through social memory
(Global Campus, 2017)Staking Out a Place Amidst Shifting Soils: Understanding Contemporary South Africa Through Social Memory begins with the premise of global turbulence. The End of History as the global modus operandi rests on unstable ground. ... -
Facing the past: the coexistence challenges and prosecution of the war crimes in Serbia
(Global Campus, 2017)This study aims to examine Serbia’s capacities to face the past and prosecute war criminals as a necessary step toward achieving transitional justice and reconciliation. This is relevant because more than twenty years have ...
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