Essays about: "National Human Rights Institutions"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 42 essays containing the words National Human Rights Institutions.

1. 1. Pursuing Justice:The Criminal Liability of the Christian Clergy in the Cultural Genocide of Indigenous Peoples in Canada and Australia

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

   Author : Laura Leila Szücs; [2023]
   Keywords : Human Rights; Indigenous Rights; Genocide; Cultural Genocide; Stolen Generation; Residential School System; Canada; Australia; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Indigenous populations often bore the brunt of Christian settler colonization resulting in marginalization, assimilation, Christianization, and cultural elimination. Most perpetrators of colonial injustices go unpunished and wrongdoings unacknowledged, barring the possibility of genuine international and national reconciliation for indigenous peoples. READ MORE

3. 2. The shadow pandemic : a feminist institutional perspective on civil society's work on gender-based violence in post COVID -19 South Africa

   University essay from Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm/Avdelningen för mänskliga rättigheter och demokrati

   Author : Louise Lindfors; [2023]
   Keywords : Gender-based violence; institutional feminism; CSO civil society organizations; grassroot activists; South Africa;

   Abstract : This field study is a thematic and feminist institutionalist analysis on how the civil society and grassroot activists in Gauteng province, South Africa, has been affected and mitigated during and after the COVID -19 pandemic in their work against gender-based violence. The data consist of five semi structured interviews with primary sources, divided in the two sub-groups of activists and formal NGO representatives. READ MORE

4. 3. Navigating the Global-to-National Interface: Exploring the Impact of International Development Agendas on National Policy Shaping: A Study of CRPD implementation in Armenia

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

   Author : Marine Manukyan; [2023]
   Keywords : CRPD; Disability; PWD; SDG; Policy-shaping; Human rights; Development; Global Governance; Policy Transfer; Armenia; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Armenia started the disability policy reforms since the ratification of the UN CRPD in 2010. The final laws however were adopted only in 2021 and are not fully in force till now. The objective of this study is to comprehensively investigate the influence of international development agendas on national policy-shaping. READ MORE

5. 4. Concepts of democracy and human rights in abortion debate : Theme analysis of the abortion discourse in Poland

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

   Author : Zuzanna Houjeiri; [2023]
   Keywords : democracy; human rights; abortion; Poland; discourse analysis; theme analysis;

   Abstract : Democracy and human rights are concepts whose definition depends on contextual cues. The paper analyzes what themes related to those concepts can be found in the context of abortion discourse in Poland in the years 2020-2023 and how they define or redefine these ideas, especially in the context of democratic regression. READ MORE

6. 5. Governing During the Pandemic : Changes in Risk Governance and Power in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

   Author : Sara Kringsberg; [2023]
   Keywords : COVID-19; Risk Governance; Policy Change; Policy Window; Crisis; Responsibility; Power; Window of Opportunity; COVID-19; riskstryning; policyförändring; makt; ansvarsfördelning; kris;

   Abstract : Background: The COVID-19 pandemic showed that disastrous events can develop in ways both new and surprising. It demonstrated that an infectious disease can easily spread over the globe in a matter of weeks. READ MORE