Essays about: "Human Rights Principles"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 215 essays containing the words Human Rights Principles.
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1. Closing the gap? An Analysis of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Business Operations
University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionenAbstract : There is an increasing demand for responsible business conduct. Different mechanisms have been developed to promote and ensure such responsibility within corporate operations. Two of such mechanisms are the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). READ MORE
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2. The Rights of Nature in the Scandinavian Wilderness : the case of Fulufjället National Park
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för kultur och samhälleAbstract : The idea of recognizing the Rights of Nature has emerged as a response and an alternative source of stimulus to tackle today’s environmental problems causing eco-anxiety. This study intends to give insight on how a high level of environmental awareness can contribute substantially to a balanced relationship with Nature. READ MORE
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3. The “Dirty Hands Dilemma” in Politics : A Study on Political Ethics
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : When faced with an emergency situation, politicians are often forced to sacrifice their core moral principles in order to better serve the immediate public interest. This is commonly described as the Dirty Hands dilemma. Dirty Hands theorists conditionally defend politicians, but they leave the dilemma under-defined. READ MORE
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4. The ’Responsibility to Protect’ in Myanmar: Investigating the call for R2P through the Epistemic Community
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The principle of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ or ‘R2P’, adopted by states at the World Summit in 2005, establishes that states have a responsibility to protect their citizens, and if a state fails to do so, the responsibility falls upon the international community. In Myanmar, the Rohingya crisis and the military coup of 2021 has displayed the widespread systematic violations of human rights. READ MORE
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5. Neo-republicanism as a framework for a political theory of animal protection - An evaluation of Philip Pettit’s neo-republican theory of freedom and its potential for extending justice to non-human animals
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Non-human animals are often excluded from contemporary political theories, much to their detriment in terms of welfare and protection. The ‘political turn’ is a subset of animal ethicists concerned with moving beyond motivating moral status and instead discussing the politics of a shared human-animal society. READ MORE
