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The impact of climate change on low-lying island nations: a challenge for the international community : the case of Tuvalus climate refugees
(2011)Climate change is considered one of the major causes of migration flows. It has been estimated that by the middle of this century hundreds of millions of people will be forced to cross national borders as a consequence of ... -
Towards culturally-sensitive transitional justice processes : the case of Colombia
(2011)This dissertation examines the role of cultural differences in Transitional Justice (TJ) processes. It starts by pointing out the weaknesses of the paradigmatic model of TJ, characterized as being legalist and top-down. ... -
Effectiveness or empowerment? : an assessment of participatory democracy in contemporary South Africa
(2011)This thesis develops a theoretical framework to demonstrate why public participation is currently promoted in developing countries by a wide range of organisations, from international financial agencies to local communist ... -
The evolution of the Kurdish conflict and future perspectives for autonomy discussions in Turkey: the example of Basque Country
(2011)The aim of this study is to analyze and to show the evolution of Kurdish conflict issue from the political history perspective and to help to contribute to the discussions in Turkish media on the autonomy models such as ... -
The role of EU in the management of humanitarian crises in Africa: a critical analysis of the situation of the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
(2011)Following its ambition to become a major actor in the international security and peacebuilding, the European Union has developed in Africa a strong and comprehensive framework for humanitarian crisis management. Taking DRC ... -
Watching the watchmen : the defense and promotion of human rights by human rights defenders in local, national and international contexts and the protection of their activity
(2011)Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) have emerged as a single cathegory that includes all those who defend and promote human rights and other universally recognized rights and freedoms. The United Nations Declaration on Human ... -
The European Unions balancing act between norms and interests in its Southern neighbourhood : an analysis of explanatory factors behind inconsistent human rights and democratisation policies of the EU in Northern Africa
(2011)The events of the ‘Arab Spring’ and especially the initial uprisings in Northern Africa have uncovered the EU’s policies towards the region and the often inconsistent balancing of the EU’s treaty-based norms of human rights ... -
Social work and human rights : a new paradigm for international social work under the conditions of globalisation
(2011)In recent years there has been a strong moving towards rights-based theory and practice in international social work. These professional developments are closely linked to globalisation processes and the changing role of ... -
Implementation of the European Court of Human Rights judgments to the Russian legal order
(2011)The thesis is a review of the implementation of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights on the legal order of the Russian Federation; an exploration of interaction of the Russian government authorities and judges ... -
The right to adequate housing between international and state strategies: a comparative study of Spain, South Africa and France
(2012)This paper aims to study the current situation of the Right to Adequate Housing (RAH) and to find out which are the better strategies that have been put into practice for its realization. This has been done through a ... -
The Holy See: sovereign power internationally recognised : does the authority the Holy See exercises within the international community go along with a responsibility for human rights violations?
(2011)The objective of this thesis is to examine the link between the competence and power recognised to the Holy See among the international community of states and international responsibility in case of human rights violations. ... -
Human rights obligations of information and communication technology companies in the context of data governance
(2018)While users all over the world entrust Information and Communication Technology (ICT) companies with sensitive data on a daily basis, cases of data leakages and privacy breaches have been constantly appearing in the last ... -
Child online protection from a human rights law perspective: an analysis of China’s practices
(2018)Like most countries in the world, the development of the Internet has brought many new challenges to child protection in China. Violation of child’s rights through the Internet is becoming more and more serious in recent ... -
Syrian refugee women and girls forced into marriage in Turkey : existing national and international law instruments and their effectiveness
(2018)Millions of Syrians have been forced to leave their country after the Syrian War, the most horrific humanitarian plight of recent years. More than 5 million Syrians had to flee to neighboring countries due to lack of life ... -
Frontex: from border controller to guarantor of migrants’ rights? The Spanish case
(2018)In recent years, Europe has faced a great increase in arrivals to its shores and thus, the challenge to balance border security and human security. As the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex is responsible for ... -
Migration: who’s crisis? : asylum seekers, refugees and other migrants in contemporary Canada and Sweden
(2018)The movement of human beings across different lands and borders is hardly a new phenomenon. Though the motivations for these movements may be situational, what remains constant are the legal, political and social changes ... -
Precaution in countering terrorism : an analysis of how politicians attempt to legitimise indefinite preventive detention
(2018)Governments around the world have adopted various and diverse counter-terror measures with the primary aim being prevention. As a consequence, such measures have a strong anticipatory character. The purpose of counter-terror ... -
Quotas for men in university: breaking the stereotype in European Union law and Swedish law
(2011)This thesis approaches the issue of quotas for the under-represented sex in higher education. The focus is mostly legal but it will also include a sociological point of view. The first part of the study will approach this ...
