Essays about: "contemporary slavery"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words contemporary slavery.

  1. 1. Unfolding Slavery: a comparative analysis of definitions and positive obligations in the IACtHR case of Hacienda Brasil Verde Worker v. Brazil and the ECtHR case law on slavery and forced labour

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

    Author : Flávia Cieplinski; [2018]
    Keywords : International Human Rights Law; Inter-American Court of Human Rights; Slavery; Servitude; Forced Labour; Trafficking in Persons; Positive Obligations.; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In October 2016, the IACtHR issued the judgment of the case of Hacienda Brasil Verde Workers v Brazil. The case concerns the subjection of 85 workers to slavery-like conditions in a private-owned livestock farm located in the north of Brazil. Brasil Verde Workers v. READ MORE

  3. 2. Humanitarian interventions - Should it be legal under contemporary international law?

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

    Author : Maria Alderin; [2018]
    Keywords : Public international law; Humanitarian interventions; Human rights; Responsibility to protect; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Humanitarian interventions is a well debated subject within international law. When it comes to the legality of humanitarian interventions the international community is divided and a lot of material regarding such interventions can be found. READ MORE

  4. 3. Digital Memory of a Neglected Colonial Past: Visual Representation of Danish Colonialism and Slavery in the U.S. Virgin Islands

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Diantha Jayananthan; [2017]
    Keywords : Colonialism; Memory; Representation; Art; U.S. Virgin Islands; Slavery;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how digital mediations of art and performances can contribute to shaping new memories and perceptions about the Danish colonization of the U.S. Virgin Islands. READ MORE

  5. 4. Representations of motherhood in Erdrich’s Love Medicine and Morisson’s Beloved

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

    Author : Linnea Hallström; [2017]
    Keywords : Motherhood; Erdrich; Morrison; feminist theory;

    Abstract : This thesis is a comparative analysis of the African American author Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved and the Native American writer Louise Erdrich’s novel Love Medicine. The focus of this essay will be the theme motherhood. READ MORE

  6. 5. Slavery: part of history or present problem? - A bachelor thesis regarding the issues of contemporary slavery, with a special interest in how contemporary slavery is dealt with in the UK.

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

    Author : Amanda Persson; [2015]
    Keywords : rättshistoria; public international law; folkrätt; EU-rätt; EU law; modernt slaveri; nutida slaveri; samtida slaveri.; modern slavery; contemporary slavery; legal history; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This bachelor thesis deals with the existence and the issues of contemporary slavery. Contemporary slavery is a term that includes the types of slavery that are present in modern society. READ MORE