Essays about: "Collective Rights"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 164 essays containing the words Collective Rights.

  1. 16. Second Home, New Home

    University essay from KTH/Samhällsplanering och miljö

    Author : Minghui Li; [2023]
    Keywords : urban village; urban regeneration; informal employment migrants; public space;

    Abstract : As a unique form of rural-urban transition settlement in China’s rapid urbanization process, the “urban village” plays a very distinctive part in promoting urbanization, being a transit point for many rural people entering urban areas. The term “informal employment migrants” usually refers to those people, who have no formal employment status and work in informal, low-skilled, low-paying jobs in the city. READ MORE

  3. 17. Mni Wiconi/Water is Life: A phenomenological approach for better understanding Native American views on nature; experienced mistreatments and acts of resistance at the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Jasmin Ashkani; [2022-09-01]
    Keywords : Dakota Access Pipeline; Native American; postcolonial; nature; tribal sovereignty; resistance; hermeneutic phenomenology;

    Abstract : The build of the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2017 caused collective protests within Native American communities as the pipeline was threatening the Sioux Nation’s access to clean water. In addition to this, the company building the pipeline, Energy Transfer, was violating treaty rights, and ignoring environmental assessment risks and tribal concerns. READ MORE

  4. 18. Small Islands Developing States: The need for International Climate Change Action.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Pone Shams Hakimi; [2022-06-01]
    Keywords : SIDS; AOSIS; Human Rights; SDGs; Climate Change; International community; Climate Justice;

    Abstract : This thesis focuses on Small Islands Developing States, SIDS, and their need for international climate change action. The aim is to explore what arguments have been used to advocate for international action to support SIDS in their climate change challenges between 2007-2017. READ MORE

  5. 19. Indigenous justice in Guatemala: Indigenous women’s access to justice versus indigenous communities’ collective rights

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Mónica Alejandra Escobedo Reyes; [2022-05-20]
    Keywords : indigenous justice; indigenous women; indigenous girls; Guatemala; legal pluralism; feminism; human rights; women’s rights; indigenous peoples’ rights;

    Abstract : In 2016, the Constitutional Court of Guatemala ruled in favor of validating the application of ancestral justice by the indigenous authorities of the community of Comitancillo, San Marcos, to an individual who raped a 10-year-old girl. In addition to recognizing the application of an ancestral punishment that consisted in asking for forgiveness and receiving some lashings from members of his family as valid, the court ordered the dismissal of the case in the legal ordinary system, claiming the aggressor had already been judged and punished. READ MORE

  6. 20. What’s harm got to do with it? The framing of accountability and harm in the EU Artificial Intelligence Act Proposal

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

    Author : Yasmin Omar; [2022]
    Keywords : artificial intelligence; European Union; regulation; accountability; harm; critical discourse analysis; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The European Union released an Artificial Intelligence (AI) regulation proposal in April 2021 aimed at laying down harmonised rules for AI circulating the Union market. The purpose of this study is to critically examine how accountability and individual, collective, and social harm was approached and framed by the proposal. READ MORE