Essays about: "Muslim minority rights"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words Muslim minority rights.

1. 1. Responsibility to Protect and International Law - The Case of the Rohingya

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

   Author : Alice Ribbenvik; [2020]
   Keywords : Public international law; responsibility to protect; Rohingya; Myanmar; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Rohingya-muslimerna i Myanmar har utsatts för diskriminering och förtryck i många decennier. Sedan 2012 har våldet i Myanmar eskalerat till vad många menar är folkmord. De påstådda brotten har fått uppmärksamhet i det internationella samfundet och särskilt inom området internationella mänskliga rättigheter. READ MORE

3. 2. The Death of a Culture – A Critical Analysis of the Concept of Cultural Genocide in International Law

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

   Author : Rui Johnson Petri; [2019]
   Keywords : public international law: international human rights law: international criminal law: cultural genocide; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Som ett led i att homogenisera den kinesiska befolkningen, har den kinesiska regeringen under längre tid bedrivit en kampanj för att avskaffa Xinjiang-provinsens inhemska folkgrupp Uigurer. Massiva konverteringsläger har inrättats där Uigurerna tvingas avsäga sig sin kultur, etnicitet och religion. READ MORE

4. 3. All bark and no bite? : European Union Human Rights and Democracy Advocacy & Development Aid: A case study of Myanmar and the Rohingya

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

   Author : Nora Nattorp; [2019]
   Keywords : Development aid; human rights; Myanmar; European Union; normative power;

   Abstract : The principles of human rights and democracy have been of great importance for a long time and for many actors globally, especially for the European Union. This paper has the purpose of examining the European Union’s bilateral development aid and its relation to the organisation's human rights and democracy promotion. READ MORE

5. 4. Civil Society and Democratic Ideas : A Case Study Based on Sweden’s Young-Muslims, A Court-Verdict

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Ifrah-Degmo Mohamed; [2018]
   Keywords : Keywords: Power; Democratic ideas; Trust; Institutional Decision-Making Social Capital; Discriminating-Taste; Human Rights –Principles; Civil society and Equality;

   Abstract : Abstract   This thesis explores the role of civil society organizations and the democratic participation of minority groups in Sweden. It is based on an analysis and interpretation of a major court decision that denied government support (MUCF) for a Muslim Youth organization (SUM) in 2016. READ MORE

6. 5. Minority Participation in the Public Sphere – A Critical Analysis of Claim-Making on Muslim Rights and Islam in Swedish News Media

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Katharina Kehl; [2014]
   Keywords : minority participation; Muslim minority rights; Islam in Europe; public sphere; political claims analysis; politics of recognition; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : As Muslim communities have become more permanently established in Western European societies, debates around the public practice of Islam in these societies have become more prevalent, while the “global war on terror” rhetoric has aided the construction of Muslim minorities into “Others” along lines of religious and cultural differences. Based on theories of minority participation in the public sphere as part of the political process of contestation over group rights in complex pluralistic political communities, this thesis investigates the debate around Muslim rights and Islam in Sweden during the years 1999 – 2008 as reported by the five largest Swedish daily newspapers. READ MORE