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No longer just your visual pleasure: a case for a human rights education model in film and television for the benefit of gender equality
(2020)Human Rights Education (HRE) is one of the most useful tools for the proliferation of human rights information and culture. However, majority of methods for the distribution of HRE are through formal settings, thus, there ... -
A moral dilemma between national security and children’s rights. What to do with children recruited by terrorist or violent extremist groups? A case analysis.
(2020)In the last recent years, there were more cases in non-conflict countries, such as Germany, of children, who are associated with and recruited by non-state armed groups such as terrorist or violent extremist groups and ... -
Epidemic violence : a new approach to the “Internal Protection Alternative”
(2020)The present study attempts to readdress some of the elements of analysis of the ‘Internal Protection Alternative’ (IPA) inquiries in contexts of generalized violence, by examining from an epidemiologic perspective the ... -
Between guns and roses, did foreign aid forget about human rights? The paradox of conducting a joined-up approach of development and security. A case study of the European Union development policy “securitisation” in the Sahel region.
(2020)Given the evolving global political-economic landscape, the combination of security and development goals has grown on the international scene as a promising practice in many areas such as conflict prevention, fight ... -
Transitional justice and mental health : The Kosovo case
(2020)While the relationship between war and mental health has long been the subject of research, the role of post-war mechanisms such as dealing with the past, better understood as transitional justice, is less well understood ... -
Defending the rule of law in the European Union : is it sufficient to “police” EU values?
(2020)Ongoing events in the European Union (EU), particularly in Hungary and Poland, have seen an aggressive government-driven dismantling of prominent Rule of Law (RoL) elements such as the separation of powers and the independence ... -
“When the Protector becomes the Perpetrator” : accountability for human rights violations by UN peacekeepers
(2020)“There are currently thirteen United Nations peacekeeping operations around the globe. These missions are established to assist countries affected by conflict and internal instability by providing support and guidance ... -
Human Rights Restrictions under COVID-19 Pandemic: comparison between Japan and Portugal
(2020)The new coronavirus has spread all over the world in a short time through the movement of people. States have been forced to take measures to mitigate human to human contact which is the only effective way to combat the ... -
Framing the picture: a human rights-based study on AI, the case of facial recognition technology
(2020)From science-fiction novels and dystopian literary scenarios, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a distinguishing feature of our times. AI-based technologies have the potential to decrease the mortality caused by car ... -
Myanmar: limitations and violations of children's rights in orphanages
(2020)Currently, Myanmar and its inhabitants are experiencing military, economic, religious and geopolitical conflicts in almost all the regions of the country. This is clearly demonstrated on the map of the restricted areas in ... -
Balancing human rights and security in the EU foreign policy: the case of Libya. Human rights violations in a refugee crisis context
(2020)Libya’s conflict is one of the lengthy unsettled conflicts currently existent in the international order. The European Union (EU), as a core international actor supporting the resolution of the conflict, has provided a ... -
Rape as a weapon of war: an analysis of the impunity of perpetrators of sexual violence in the DRC
(2020)The use of rape as a weapon of war was only recently recognized as a military strategy, which aims to terrorize the population. Nowadays, the Democratic Republic of Congo regrettably stands out for having the higher rate ... -
Human rights defenders in the Mediterranean countries and the refugee crisis : a research analysis of their risks and the usage of regional instruments for their protection
(2020)The aim of this paper is to examine the case study of the defenders assisting refugees and migrants that arriving in the Mediterranean countries. This research draws evidence from the international, regional and national ... -
Interventionism and democratization : how the way we promote democracy is leading to its decline
(2020)Democracy promotion has been a major goal of the foreign policy initiatives of the world’s leading countries and intergovernmental bodies since the fall of the Berlin wall. Despite this, in its most recent report the V-Dem ... -
Human trafficking and technology : the commercial exploitation of women and children
(2020)Human trafficking, both trafficking in persons and cyber-trafficking, is a multi-billion international organized crime that is occurring somewhere in the world as you are reading this. This form of crime has been increasing ... -
The Arab Human Right Committee: a promising mechanism in an emerging human rights system
(2020)This research discusses the effectiveness of Arab human rights mechanisms within the League of Arab States (LAS) over the past 52 years. It argues that LAS Member States lacked interest and political will to advance human ... -
Democratic deficit theory: a reversed approach. Why radical political changes in member states affect the quality of democracy in the EU
(2020)The thematic of the democratic deficit has stirred passions and created divisions among scholars, who find no consensus on how to answer it. Too often, the methodological approaches implemented to deal with the democratic ... -
Meet me in the middle : an analysis of the EU’s human rights promotion in Kazakhstan in the context of China’s belt and road initiative
(2020)This thesis explores the impact of the EU's human rights promotion in Kazakhstan in light of China's increasing economic and normative influence in Central Asia including its innovative Belt and Road Initiative. It highlights ... -
Labour rights, artificial intelligence and automation in the context of the UK, Brexit, and Covid-19 with a comparative study of Singapore
(2020)The impact of Artificial Intelligence and automation presents an unprecedented challenge to workers’ rights. The potential automation crisis in UK can lead to further problems in social justice and income inequality beyond ... -
“Forgotten victims of war”. Invisible, though stigmatised: the case of children born of wartime rape and conflict-related sexual violence
(2020)Conflict-Related Sexual Violence has many disastrous consequences, yet one consequence that is systematically ignored is the children being born as a result from such violence. This research focuses on children born of ...
