Global Campus Open Knowledge Repository: Recent submissions
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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. ... -
Positive media representation of the Bulgarian LGBTQ+ community and shifting national attitudes towards homosexuality
(2020)This thesis deals with the question of whether positive media representation can favorably affect attitudes towards the LGBTQ+ community in Bulgaria. As a post-Soviet country that recently joined the EU, Bulgaria still has ... -
Occupying the streets and spaces of power: the participation of women in politics. The case of Brazil
(2020)The aim of this thesis is to investigate whether and to which extent Brazil has been complying with its international obligations on the women’s right to political participation. I will elaborate on the relationships between ... -
Intergovernmental organizations’ impact on environmental democracy in post-soviet countries and their contribution to the transboundary cooperation: the case of OSCE in the South Caucasus region regarding the water/energy nexus
(2020)2020 marks the 22nd birthyear of the Aarhus Convention which is the regional legal document for the implementation of environmental democracy in Europe. This study provides a broad comprehension on the principle of ... -
Family life interrupted: unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the Dublin III family reunification procedure. The case of Greece and Germany
(2020)This thesis explores the topic of the legal and practical constraints of the family reunification procedure applied to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) under the Dublin III Regulation (DR III). It critically ... -
What is the future of human rights? A discussion on assisted suicide and mental health
(2020)The present paper argues that human rights are a wonderful way to understand and to introduce the debate on assisted suicide that our contemporary society needs. People with mental illness are a very vulnerable group in ... -
Europe and its Muslim “strangers” : combating the challenges faced within the socio-cultural integration process
(2020)The relationship between Europe and Islam has always been a subject of cultural controversies. The increasing Muslim migration flows in Europe during the last decades, together with the recent sharp manifold crises and ... -
Artificial intelligence and judicial systems : opportunities and challenges at the intersection of AI and courts of justice
(2020)The adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the judicial systems is a phenomenon that has been gaining strength in recent years and presents opportunities and challenges for the achievement of fundamental rights. In ... -
Lost in legislation: peer sexual intimidation in secondary schools. A comparative study of France and the Netherlands
(2020)Sexual intimidation between peers at secondary schools can have serious psychological effects on those targeted. Nevertheless, it is a severely underestimated phenomenon worldwide. This thesis, through a case study of ... -
The rise and consecration of the right to personal data protection within the European Union legal order
(2020)While we entrust our personal data to ‘information and communications technology’ (ICT) companies, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives data subjects the possibility to control the dissemination of their ... -
Housing, homelessness and human rights: advocating a rights-based response to a systemic problem
(2020)Homelessness is one of the most visible human rights deprivations of our time. Yet, it does not provoke the same horror and outrage of other crises of similar magnitude. The complacency surrounding homelessness is alarming, ... -
Skepticism, stigmatisation and securitisation: the culture of suspicion and disbelief towards unaccompanied minors. The securitisation of unaccompanied minors in Greece
(2020)By means of a case study on the Netherlands, this thesis aims to answer the question to what extent the pretext of securitised migration has impeded the relocation efforts of unaccompanied minors from Greece. The Netherlands ...
