Essays about: "European Court on Human Rights"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 110 essays containing the words European Court on Human Rights.

1. 1. Home States' Duty to Protect Human Rights - To what extent is Sweden requiring Swedish corporations to comply with human rights extraterritorially?

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

   Author : Gisela Jönsson; [2020]
   Keywords : Public International Law; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : It has been argued that multinational corporations benefit from impunity when it comes to human rights violations due to inadequate corporate regulation in host states as well on the international level. Thus, there are three purposes of this thesis: first to examine to what extent states’ duty to protect human rights can be utilised to hold corporations accountable for human rights violations in their global activities. READ MORE

3. 2. Copyright implications of computer-generated imagery using the likeness of real people

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Emmi Leinonen; [2020]
   Keywords : Copyright law; Parody; CGI; personality rights;

   Abstract : The Universal Declaration of Human Rights article 27 shows that copyright law has two functions. ‘everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. READ MORE

4. 3. Providing a Child with a Family, Not a Family with a Child - A Study in the ECtHR Case Law Regarding the Right to Adopt for Homosexual Persons from a Child's Rights Perspective

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

   Author : Thérèse Bennshagen; [2020]
   Keywords : The European Court of Human Rights; The European Convention on Human Rights; The rights of homosexual persons; Adoption; The right to respect for family life; The child s interests; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The traditional family as a heterosexual married couple with children is a norm that is increasingly being questioned and other family constellations are getting more common. In this context the relations and families of homosexual persons are being highlighted and prejudices against them are less tolerated. READ MORE

5. 4. Exporting Privacy – A Study on the Extraterritorial Application of the European Convention on Human Rights to Foreign Mass Surveillance

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

   Author : Erica Wide; [2020]
   Keywords : european convention on human rights; extraterritorial application; foreign surveillance; jurisdiction; public international law; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Staters användning av utländsk massövervakning är idag öppet diskuterat och ofta reglerat i lag. Europeiska domstolen för de mänskliga rättigheterna (Europadomstolen) har fastställt att massövervakning utan tillräckliga säkerhetsgarantier kan innebära en kränkning av individers rätt till privatliv enligt artikel 8 Europeiska konventionen om skydd för de mänskliga rättigheterna (EKMR). READ MORE

6. 5. The Protection of Human Rights in the Context of Climate Change : Non-refoulement Obligations under Article 3 ECHR to Protect Environmental Migrants?

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Emma Cederberg; [2020]
   Keywords : Human rights law; Climate change; Non-refoulement obligations; Environmental migrants; Article 3 ECHR; Slow onset events of climate change;

   Abstract : The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) notes in its Fifth Assessment Report from 2014 that states are the main cause of anthropogenic gas emissions. Furthermore, scientists predict that displacement across border for reasons of climate change will increase rapidly in the coming decades. READ MORE