Essays about: "human rights defenders"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 17 essays containing the words human rights defenders.

  1. 6. Defending the Defenders: International Protection for Local Human Rights Defenders in the Global South

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

    Author : Timothy Lincoln Reeves Jr; [2022]
    Keywords : Human Rights Defenders Global South International Regional Human Rights Systems Attacks violations Protection; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Local human rights defenders play a significant role in the realization and enjoyment of human rights. Working alone or in association with others, they peacefully advocate for and promote fundamental freedoms and human rights for themselves and for their fellow citizens. READ MORE

  3. 7. Process and Meaning : A Coverian Analysis of Animal Defenders International v. UK and the Procedural Turn of the ECtHR

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Arvid Skagerlid; [2021]
    Keywords : Robert Cover; Animal Defenders International; subsidiarity; the subsidiarity principle; margin of appreciation; ECHR; ECtHR; procedural turn; process-based review; procedural review; European Convention of Human Rights; European Court of Human Rights; Animal Defenders International v. the UK; democracy to come; Derrida p;

    Abstract : In this thesis, the legal theory of Robert Cover is employed to analyse the procedural turn of the ECtHR. The text studies how Animal Defenders International v. the United Kingdom (ADI) and subsequent case law relate to the margin of appreciation doctrine and how this can be understood from a Coverian point of view. READ MORE

  4. 8. Dialogs of Peace in Protection of Life: A Comparative Case Study of a Nonviolence Method by the Indigenous Guards of the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca in the Post-Peace Accord Context (2016-2021) in Colombia

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Nordiska Latinamerikainstitutet

    Author : Mimmi Clase Hagman; [2021]
    Keywords : Colombia; Peace Agreement of 2016; Ethnic Chapter; Territorial Focus; Cauca Department; Violence; Nonviolence Method; Peace; Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca; Association of Cabildos in Northern Cauca; Indigenous Guards; Kiwe Thegnas; Cyclical War; Power of Asymmetry; Conflict Resolution; Conflict Transformation; Dialogs; Puracé Coconuco; Resguardo of Paletará; Toribío; Proyecto Nasa; Colombia; Acuerdo Final de Paz de 2016; Capítulo Étnico; Enfoque Territorial; Departamento del Cauca; Violencia; Método de la No-violencia; Paz; Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca; Asociación de Cabildos del Norte del Cauca; Guardia Indígena; Kiwe Thegnas; Guerra Cíclica; Poder Asimétrico; Resolución de Conflicto; Transformación del Conflicto; Diálogos; Puracé Coconuco; Resguardo de Paletará; Toribío; Proyecto Nasa;

    Abstract : The Peace Agreement of 2016 between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People's Army raised hopes after decades of internal armed conflict, but the levels of violence continue to be high in rural areas. Cauca is the department of Colombia where most social leaders and human rights defenders have been killed since 2016. READ MORE

  5. 9. A broken promise: an insight into the killings of social leaders and the elites' resistance to the implementation of the Comprehensive Rural Reform in Colombia

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Carol Sánchez; [2021]
    Keywords : armed conflict; Colombia; social leaders; human rights defenders;

    Abstract : Four years after the signing of the Final Agreement for the Termination of the Armed Conflict in Colombia, the promises made to achieve a stable and lasting peace have by no means materialized at the expected pace. The implementation of the Agreements has focused on the demobilization of the FARC-EP while structural transformations to reduce the causes for the existence or prolongation of the conflict have been neglected. READ MORE

  6. 10. “Holy” War on Human Rights : A hermeneutic study of the complex situation of human rights activists in Afghanistan

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Zandra Bergman; [2021]
    Keywords : Human rights; religion; violence; human rights activists; human rights defenders; women’s rights; hegemony; Taliban; fundamentalism; Afghanistan;

    Abstract : Title: “Holy” War on Human Rights - A hermeneutic study of the complex situation of human rights activists in Afghanistan Author: Zandra Bergman Supervisor: Maud Eriksen Examiner: Johanna Romare Department of TheologyMaster program of Religion in Peace and ConflictMaster’s thesis, 15 credits  In September 2020, the latest attempt to bring peace to Afghanistan, the intra-Afghan peace talks formally began. The opening of the peace negotiations failed to produce the long-desired ceasefire. READ MORE