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Children’s cognitive development and moral capabilities to give informed consent during armed conflict
(2019)The recruitment of children into military entities and their participation in warfare has increased in the past 20 years (Bloom, 2018) with an estimated 300,000 children worldwide identifying as members of armed forces ... -
Right to life, duty to live? The case of euthanasia for persons with dementia
(2019)Every three seconds a person develops dementia and with the aging world population the number of people affected by it is only expected to grow in the following years. Therefore as it is important to address end-of-life ... -
A human rights-based approach to protecting the environment : status, critique and alternatives
(2019)The consequences of human-made climate change are already felt, with more than half of the world’s animal population depleted between 1970 and 2014. The effects of humans on every aspect of our natural environment have ... -
Europe’s sweet tooth : a proposal on how the EU can implement due diligence to tackle child labour in cocoa supply chains
(2019)Child labour remains widespread across the globe. Incidences in cocoa supply chains first received major international attention at the turn of the millennium. Since then, the cocoa sector launched the Harkin Engel Protocol ... -
Doing good while doing good business: laying a cornerstone for social responsibility by fostering personal development and prosocial behavior in the workforce
(2019)This thesis explores growing demands on commercial enterprises to conduct business in a socially responsible manner, and how enterprises might best respond to this pressure by focusing on their own workforce. More ... -
The cultural shock faced by Syrian refugees in Germany
(2019)In a world full of violence and conflicts, worldwide figures provided by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees show that there are 68.5 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, 25.4 million of which are ... -
Family separation by immigration enforcement: an analysis of the right to family unity in the United States and Germany
(2019)Family unity is a universally accepted value, however current immigration policies and their enforcement undermine this value resulting in violations of numerous international human rights legal instruments. Beyond the ... -
The interrelations between developments in corporate social responsibility and the new generation of international investment agreements: can investment arbitration become a tool for promoting social responsibility?
(2019)Taking into account the recent developments in corporate social responsibility (CSR) development, and CSR’s incorporation into recent international investment agreements, the question has been raised: can these CSR provisions ... -
The European Union approach to disinformation and misinformation : the case of the 2019 European Parliament elections
(2019)In the last years, the phenomenon of so called “fake news” on social media has become more and more discussed, in particular after the 2016 US elections. The thesis examines how the European Union is approaching “fake news” ... -
Madrassah education in Pakistan: weapon of extremism?
(2019)Pakistan is positioned within one of the most contentious regions of the world, sharing its borders with Afghanistan and three very powerful nuclear-weapon states, i.e. India, China, and Russia. Moreover, internally, ... -
We must talk about the discourse : the changing European landscape : a critical discourse analysis of Danish law amendments from 2015-2018
(2019)The objective of this research is to gain understanding of the contemporary discursive landscape and the legitimation strategies used, when arguing in favour of laws and amendments which is criticized by the human rights ... -
Caught in the middle: the EU-Morocco co-operation on migration management and the human rights of migrants
(2019)Migration management and control have become defining elements of EU’s relationship with its neighboring countries, especially those south of the Mediterranean. It is illustrative that migration is quasi-present in all EU ... -
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
(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 ... -
Hate speech online: how to regulate (a)social media networks
(2019)How can hate speech be combated on social media? Social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter have long positioned themselves as defenders of free speech and were reluctant to interfere in any political debate. Under ... -
Queer? Prove it. Should the EU create a framework for the credibility assessment of asylum claims based on sexual orientation and gender identity?
(2019)The Common European Asylum System (CEAS) aspires towards consistency in the process of asylum applications and acceptance throughout the EU. However, multiple reports have found incongruent results and methods that are ... -
Gender behind bars: human rights violations in women’s prisons : applying a feminist criminology approach to the case of Paraguay
(2019)The particularities of Human Rights violations that women in prison have suffered are often overshadowed by those of their male counterparts. This research underscores how gender plays into a systematic form of oppression ... -
An ecofeminist perspective of the impact of development policies on women’s lives. The case of Ethiopia
(2019)Development is a contested concept that is still evolving within the global debate in which gender literature largely contributes. However, if there is no consensus on the broad notion of development, the integration of ... -
Germany’s return policies and rejected African asylum seekers. Why don’t failed Ghanaian and Nigerian asylum applicants return home?
(2019)Studies on return migration often hypothesise how success or failure of the migration experiment facilitate or hinder return. This has resulted in various migration theories providing grounded basis for return migration. ... -
“A community of shared destiny” : how China is reshaping human rights in Southeast Asia
(2019)As China re-emerges in 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 civilizational state, it is increasingly seeking to reshape ... -
Space, street prostitution and women’s human rights : the effects of spatial segregation in the perpetuation of violence against women in prostitution
(2019)This thesis analyses the role of Italy in fostering violence against women in street prostitution. Since the National Law 125/2008 on urgent measures on public security was passed in this country, city councils have applied ...
