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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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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 ... -
Delayed justice in El Salvador prospects for transitional justice 25 years after the signing of the peace accords
(Global Campus, 2017)This thesis analyses the political transition process in El Salvador after its twelve-year civil war and the Transitional Justice mechanisms used in the post-conflict context: first the Truth Commission and then the amnesty ... -
Unmuting voices: Dayak women’s narratives on structural and gendered injustice in oil palm expansion in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
(Global Campus, 2017)This thesis explores how the oil palm expansion process, driven by the capitalisation of nature and labour, renders structural injustice to the Dayak indigenous people in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Using feminist political ... -
Just a peep into Palestine: Israel’s closed-door policy for internationals going to Palestine as an extension of its control over Palestinian movements. A case-study of denied entry by Israel
(Global Campus, 2017)Weaved into the discussion of Israel’s legality in occupying Palestine, in all its different meanings, is the issue of borders and migration. By controlling the Palestinian visible and invisible borders –within, in and ... -
The Role of the Institution of Ombudsman in Strengthening the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms in Armenia, Moldova and Ukraine
(Global Campus, 2017)Today the ombudsman institution is widely and actively used in state systems of protection of human rights and freedoms from arbitrariness of public authorities and from abuse of power by state officials. The world ... -
The protection of the rights of refugee children in Armenia: the challenges of refugee children and their families
(Global Campus, 2017-09-20)In recent years the issue of refugees has affected the international community. The existing wars force people to leave their homes and search for new places for their survival and safety. More than 100 thousand people ... -
Administration of indigenous justice : limits and scope of indigenous legal systems based on the plural control of constitutionality of the Plurinational Constitutional Court of Bolivia
(Global Campus, 2017-09-20)This paper offers an analysis of the essential aspects of the collective human right to the administration of justice of the Native Indigenous Peoples and Nations in the Plurinational State of Bolivia, based on the role ... -
Palestine refugees from Syria in Lebanon : dynamics of secondary forced displacement
(Global Campus, 2017-09-20)The protracted conflict in Syria, which began in March 2011, has caused a mass refugee movement as well as internal displacement of millions of Syrians and is largely considered as one of the most catastrophic humanitarian ... -
The place of legal recognition at birth in enhacing the realisation of the rights of intersex persons : a comparative analysis of Kenya and Malta
(Global Campus, 2017-09-20)Intersex persons are people born with indeterminate sex. The laws regulating birth registry in Kenya operates under the assumption that there are only two sexes ‘male’ and ‘female’ which are fixed and unambiguous, despite ... -
Razor-wired : stranded migrants in Macedonia
(Global Campus, 2017-09-20)This thesis builds a theoretical pyramid of the border strategies employed by European and – consequently, Macedonian officials in the context of the migrant crisis of 2015-2016. At the base of this pyramid lay (1) the ... -
"Our struggle is not a choice!" : insecurities and protection strategies of women land right defenders. A Philippine case study on Leyte and Sicogon island
(Global Campus, 2017-09-20)In the wake of increasing competition over natural resources, the killing of Human Rights Defenders promoting environmental justice or access to land has seen a dramatic increase. Women land right activists, protecting ... -
Protecting the voluntoured: an exploratory human rights impact assessment for ethical voluntourism in Nepal
(Global Campus, 2017-09-20)Voluntourism has become increasingly criticised in recent years with reports asserting it does more harm than good. As part of wider shifts in the sector aiming to minimise harms and maximise benefits, ‘ethical voluntourism’ ... -
A double edged sword: benefits, challenges and recommendations for using information and communication technology to monitor or investigate human rights
(EIUC, 2017-09-19)Human rights monitors and investigators have developed rigorous research methodologies to ensure the data they collect is reliable, accurate, and holds human rights abusers accountable. These methods have changed little ...
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