Essays about: "human rights-based approach"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 63 essays containing the words human rights-based approach.
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21. Achieving Sustainable Environmental Peace in Asymmetric Transboundary Water Conflicts – Human Rights-Based Approach to Water Cooperation in the Israel-Palestine Case
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : As a result of the rapid population growth, the increasing economic interests and the global climate crisis, disputes over freshwater resources become more frequent and severe. Although many States pursue environmental cooperation to avoid or resolve water conflicts, such cooperation agreements often suffer from a weak political will to implement just cooperation mechanisms. READ MORE
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22. A paradigm shift from voluntary to court-ordered climate change mitigation? The potentials and challenges of a human rights-based approach
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : The central theme of this thesis is anthropogenic climate change; governments' inability to create an effective, inclusive response mechanism that manages to mitigate anthropogenic emissions; and advocates efforts to coerce States to act by invoking State responsibility in adjudicatory dispute settlement processes. States' failure to act in accordance with scientific risk assessments and to mitigate polluting activities has led underrepresented groups to increasingly lose trust in their respective executive and legislative branches, and, by means of protest, these advocates are now turning to court. READ MORE
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23. Demanding justice- Corporate responsibility for Climate Change impacts on Human Rights
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierAbstract : Climate change is one of the most complex challenges of our time, as its consequences are reflected in a variety of social and political areas that are interlinked. The problem of 'climate change' has evolved from an environmental problem, to a political issue and, ultimately to an object of jurisprudence. READ MORE
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24. Humanizing (Anti)corruption: The socio-legal values of a human rights-based approach to corruption
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierAbstract : This master’s thesis intends to contribute to the current academic and policy debate on the values of determining whether a particular human rights violation was caused by a corrupt behavior; and to defend a human rights-based approach to corruption, based on its added socio-legal values. With this purpose, it analyzes and compares the legal reasoning and socio-legal dynamics of three human rights court cases involving and not involving corruption. READ MORE
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25. Stories from Liberia
University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheterAbstract : This thesis and minor field study have aimed to examine the relationship between infrastructure (defined as water, electricity and roads) and Human Rights and how this affects the individuals perceived Human Rights, but also how we can better understand this relationship. The field study was conducted locally in Liberia and resulted in nineteen different interviews. READ MORE
