Essays about: "constituent human rights"

Found 4 essays containing the words constituent human rights.

1. 1. Consociational Democracies and Human Rights : A Case Study on Bosnia and Herzegovina

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Anes Mehmeti; [2023]
   Keywords : Consociationalism; Bosnia and Herzegovina; human rights; minority rights; political participation;

   Abstract : Power-sharing democratic models, such as consociationalism, are becoming a fundamental solution for divided societies. Consociationalism aims to divide power between the majority segments of a plural society using four characteristics: grand coalition, segmental autonomy, proportionality, and mutual veto. READ MORE

3. 2. Constituent Human Rights: A Spinozan study of the radical within human rights theories and the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Morgan Björö; [2022]
   Keywords : Spinoza; constituent human rights; production; Negri; constituent power; human rights; power; radical human rights theory; Capitol Hill Occupied Protest; ontology; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The global human rights regime can only recognise rights that are already known and given, what I’m calling constituted human rights. This mantra poses some immediate obstacles: it effectively invisibilises issues of the productivity and antagonism of human rights movements, the unknown and indeterminate future, and human rights that don’t yet exist. READ MORE

4. 3. Revisiting Persecution due to Socio-Economic Deprivation: a Reading of the Refugee Definition in light of the CRPD

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

   Author : Stavroula Kalea; [2020]
   Keywords : persecution; refugee definition; persons with disabilities; disability-specific; socio-economic deprivation; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The discussion of what the notion of ‘persecution’ entails seems to be evergreen during a time when people are more and more on the move fleeing deprivation of socioeconomic rights. A ‘human rights approach’ to the refugee definition, namely an interpretation by reference to human rights standards, is now endorsed in relevant scholarship. READ MORE

5. 4. The Rule of Law in Jamaica: A Study on how the Efforts of Civil Society may serve to strengthen the Rule of Law in Jamaica

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Alicia Epstein; [2006]
   Keywords : Jamaica; The Rule of Law; Human Rights; Civil Society; Accountability; Social sciences; Samhällsvetenskaper; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Social Sciences; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : In this essay we discuss the importance of the rule of law for upholding fundamental rights within the liberal democratic state formation. The case in point is that of the Jamaica state and its longstanding record of arbitrary human rights practices. READ MORE