Essays about: "justice in the philippines"
Found 5 essays containing the words justice in the philippines.
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1. Investigating the Gap between Informal Urbanization and Formal Planning and Governance Practices in Metro Manila, Philippines
University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studierAbstract : Metro Manila, Philippines is one of the densest and fastest growing metropolitan regions in the world, of which informal urbanization is a significant contributor. This rapid informal urbanization is a dynamic yet uncoordinated force shaping the city-region, in conflict with the vision of a modern, globally-competitive city-region painted in formal planning instruments. READ MORE
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2. An alternative agenda for gender just peace? : social justice and women’s peace advocacy amid the consolidation of Bangsamoro autonomy in the Southern Philippines
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and ManagementAbstract : Although the Bangsamoro peace-process in the Southern Philippines has been valued for its gender commitments and potential to build just and sustainable peace, discrimination of the Bangsamoro peoples and other minorities prevail. This thesis uncovers how women peace advocates understand social justice and its remedies in the context of the Bangsamoro peace-process, and which opportunities they have to advance a transformative agenda for justice in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). READ MORE
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3. Tackling Violence Against Women through Human Rights Law-Inspired Approaches (With Observations from the Philippines).
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Violence against women (“VAW”) is a global matter; and human rights law-inspired approaches, also universal in nature (it is argued), can be the missing link in tackling a global problem. In underlining the universal applicability of human rights standards, principles and norms; it is suggested that drawing inspiration from human rights-based approaches would contribute to implementation of holistic and wholesome methods through which victims of VAW can be better served and VAW in its entirety can be tackled, even preventatively. READ MORE
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4. Who Owes Whom?
University essay from Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : This thesis sets out to analyze a potential reframing of who owes whom? The orthodox external debt discourse describes how countries in the global South are heavily indebted to the industrialized North. However, since the industrial revolution, 20 per cent of the world’s population living in the global North has emitted 75-80 per cent of the carbon trapped in the atmosphere today. READ MORE
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5. WALK! Framing a successful agrarian reform campaign in the Philippines.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudierAbstract : Agrarian reform is a long standing issue in the Philippines and has seen a number of peasant uprisings, revolts and rebellions ever since colonial times. In the wake of the Marcos era, the new constitution came with new promises of agrarian reform and set up the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) to implement (re-)distribution of lands. READ MORE
