Awarded Theses
Browse by
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
All the works published on 'Awarded Theses' collection are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Collections
Recent Submissions
-
Right to data privacy in the digital era: a critical assessment of Malawi’s data privacy protection regime
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)The proliferation of information communication technology (ICT) and consequent increase in the processing of personal data threaten the right to data privacy and related human rights. Although Malawi has comparatively ... -
Between the domination of transnational companies and its discourse on business and human rights: contract farming and banana small farmers in the Davao region (The Philippines)
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)This research examined violations towards small farmers’ rights over banana plantations – with the emphasis that the farmers held their agreements with transnational agribusiness corporations in Santo Tomas and Compostela ... -
When the forest screams. The rights of nature and indigenous rights as a mutually reinforcing resistance platform for the indigenous peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)Indigenous peoples from the Ecuadorian Amazon have historically been dispossessed from their cultural heritage and ancestral territories. In the past, these actions have been justified by the need for natural resources derived ... -
Politics of memory of the recent past in Brazil: the federal government’s role in constructing collective memory between 2003 and 2016
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)Towards the end of the 2010s, the Brazilian federal government once again made discussions about the recent past – regarding the military regime that occurred between 1964 and 1985 – public. This time, however, these ... -
Prosecution of crimes of appropriation of private property before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the international residual mechanism for criminal tribunals
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)Property rights enjoy protection not only during peacetime, but also in times of armed conflict. However, despite the existence of a well-established legal framework, these rights continue to be violated in armed conflicts ... -
Refugees and migrant access to health in transit countries: politics of adaptability, enactment of slow death and inevitability of pain: an ethnography of poor urban neighborhood in Rabat (Morocco)
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)This thesis project builds on three months of ethnographic and interview research undertaken between February-May 2019 to explore refugee and migrant access to health in one of Rabat’s poor neighbourhoods, Youssoufia, which ... -
From democracy to autocracy? Growing threats to civil society and media in Kyrgyzstan
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)Despite the repeal of the ‘foreign agent’ law in 2016 which was initiated in Kyrgyzstan to limit activities of human rights defenders, government officials still continue to oppress them by using other legislative restrictions. ... -
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 ...
RSS 1.0