Essays about: "Impunity"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 75 essays containing the word Impunity.

  1. 11. Corruption and Public Expenditure : Does corruption divert public spending from social to military sector?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Munnu Tomy Kallany; [2022]
    Keywords : Corruption; Military Spending; Social Spending; Healthcare Spending; Education Spending; Public Expenditure; Rent-seeking; Collective Action Problem;

    Abstract : Corruption, militarism, and conflict are bedfellows, and their coexistence feeds a vicious circle of violence and instability. Every dollar spent on the military is a dollar not spent on welfare-generating services such as education and healthcare. READ MORE

  3. 12. Void of Sea, Void of Law? : Examining the European Union's treatment of migrants in the Mediterranean: a legal and normative analysis

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för migration, etnicitet och samhälle (REMESO)

    Author : Aidan McGirr; [2022]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Approximately eight people have died every single day since January 1, 2014 attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea. Put another way, more than 23,000 migrants have met their end in the Mediterranean while attempting to enter the European Union. Yet, it has not always been this way. READ MORE

  4. 13. Defending the Defenders: International Protection for Local Human Rights Defenders in the Global South

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Timothy Lincoln Reeves Jr; [2022]
    Keywords : Human Rights Defenders Global South International Regional Human Rights Systems Attacks violations Protection; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Local human rights defenders play a significant role in the realization and enjoyment of human rights. Working alone or in association with others, they peacefully advocate for and promote fundamental freedoms and human rights for themselves and for their fellow citizens. READ MORE

  5. 14. Perceptions of sexual violence: A discourse analysis of documents from the Peace and Security Council of the African Union 2010-2020

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Freya Melin-Higgins; [2021]
    Keywords : Sexual violence; conflict-related sexual violence; African Union; Peace and Security Council; discourse analysis; feminist power theory; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This thesis dives into the issue of conflict-related sexual violence through the empirical case of the African Union and its Peace and Security Council (PSC), aiming at understanding how conflict-related sexual violence is constructed within the PSC between 2010-2020. Applying a feminist power theory and through a discourse analysis, the thesis asks four open-ended questions regarding: conflicts, perpetrators, victims and solutions to the materials consisting of meeting documents from the PSC. READ MORE

  6. 15. Naming Injustice, Reimagining Justice: How Victim-Survivors of Sexual Violence in Portugal Perceive Criminal Justice and its Alternatives

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

    Author : Juliana Rafaela Martins Vasconcelos Senra; [2021]
    Keywords : Sexual Violence; Restorative Justice; Criminal Justice; Gender-based Violence; Access to Justice; Bourdieu; Portugal.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis addresses the sexual violence justice gap in Portugal descriptively by questioning how victim-survivors of these crimes experience and/or perceive criminal justice, including those that have resorted to formal law and those that haven’t Normatively, it reflects on the justice needs of victim-survivors of sexual violence and connects these needs to the restorative justice movement - an umbrella term for non-carceral responses to sexual violence, including inputs from feminism, abolitionism and social harm theory. It thus aims to explore innovative survivor-centered justice models and draft policy recommendations specific to the Portuguese context. READ MORE