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  1. 1. The Paradoxical Nature of Sovereignty as Symbolic Form : The International Community’s Complicity in Ongoing Human Rights Abuses in West Papua

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Sapphira Little; [2023]
    Keywords : West Papua; human rights abuses; international response; sovereignty as symbolic form;

    Abstract : Since West Papua’s integration into Indonesia in 1969, the Free West Papua Movement has been engaged in a struggle for independence from Indonesia. The indigenous people of the territory have endured murder, rape, and many other abuses. This thesis provides an account of Indonesia’s control over West Papua through a settler-colonial lens. READ MORE

  3. 2. The paradox of community seed systems : a case of Lumezi and Chasefu districts

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Clement Raphael Banda; [2022]
    Keywords : community-based seed systems; seed; seed sovereignty; Zambia;

    Abstract : Availability of quality seeds is very key to production in agrarian societies such as Zambia. However, the focus on cereals like maize, a staple, has negatively affected the availability of quality seed for other crops like legumes which are equally important. This has been one of the reasons the community seed initiatives have been necessitated. READ MORE

  4. 3. Who watches the watchmen and do they need watching?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Anders Nordenskjöld; [2012]
    Keywords : UN Treaty Body system; Principal-Agent theory; Principal-Trustee theory; Strengthening process; Public International Law; Human Rights; Human Rights Treaty Bodies; Human Rights Committee; United Nations; Independence; Delegation; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the independence of the UN treaty bodies, both in its entirety and the autonomy of the individual treaty body members. Since independence is very difficult to measure empirically, this paper uses the theoretical framework of Principal-Trustee theory as a tool by which the independence can be understood. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Inhumane

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Mika Andersson; [2010]
    Keywords : Biopolitic; Law; Philosophy; Behavioural science; Nuremberg Trials; Paradox of Sovereignty;

    Abstract : The emergence of biopolitic during the foundation of the modern nation-state resulted, amongst other things, in a fusion between law and behavioural sciences. In law concerning human rights there is a figure who is referred to as the inhumane human, this figure is dehumanized through the laws and institutions claiming to protect the human value as such. READ MORE