Essays about: "promotion and protection of human rights"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 29 essays containing the words promotion and protection of human rights.

  1. 21. Levelling the Playing Field - the Mandate of Multilateral Development Banks to Apply Labour Standards

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Monica Chmiel Mejborn; [2010]
    Keywords : International Human Rights Law and International Labour Rights; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This thesis examines five Multinational Development Banks (MDBs) mandate to apply labour standards in their operations. The MDBs are international organizations often set up with a mission to enhance economic growth and reduce poverty. An overwhelming majority of the members of the MDBs are also members of the UN and ILO. READ MORE

  2. 22. Japan: A Rising Champion of Human Rights and Democracy in East and Southeast Asia? : The 21st century, a changing approach with old continuities

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : André Asplund; [2010]
    Keywords : East and Southeast Asia; Democracy; Human Rights; Japanese Foreign Policy; North Korea; Cambodia; Myanmar; China; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study explores and provides an understanding of how Japan, in its foreign policy, has approached the protection and promotion of international human rights and democracy in East and Southeast Asia during the 21st century. It sheds light on the Japanese government’s official policies stated in forums like the national Diet and the United Nations, and it analyzes the main characteristics of the Japanese approach. READ MORE

  3. 23. The Human Right to Health - A Study of HIV/AIDS in Vietnam

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Johan Jonzon; [2008]
    Keywords : Folkrätt; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Although infectious diseases kill around 17 million people a year, some states spend less then one percent of their budget on health. The promotion and protection of health is a fundamental condition for well being and the possibility to leave a life in dignity. The world has now for 20 years been facing an extremely dangerous epidemic. READ MORE

  4. 24. The Economization of Migration

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Martin Håkansson; [2007]
    Keywords : Folkrätt; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Being acquainted with four of the most famous games in game theory, we will learn that players often are better paid off cooperating with each other, but that the structure of the game forces them to defect from cooperation. Only when confronted with the zero-sum game the players have no incentive to cooperate. READ MORE

  5. 25. Equality and Development

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Kristin Stjernrup; [2007]
    Keywords : EG-rätt; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The connection between human rights and development co-operation in the context of the European Union, which are the matters concerned in this paper, has proven to be both a contentious and complex subject. Human rights and development co-operation are two areas of practice and law, which in the past of the EU has not had an explicit relationship. READ MORE