Essays about: "promotion and protection of human rights"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 29 essays containing the words promotion and protection of human rights.

  1. 6. LGBTQ+ People & Disasters - A Queer Human Rights-Based Critique of Vulnerability

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

    Author : Christopher Cowan; [2022]
    Keywords : mainstream vulnerability analysis; disaster risk reduction; LGBTQ ; sexual and gender diversity; queer theory; queer legal theory; heteronormativity; subordination; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Climate change and hazard events pose an existential threat to human rights. Hazard events were traditionally viewed as ‘natural disasters’ which were beyond our control and the people caught up in them were unfortunate victims to the unstoppable force of nature. READ MORE

  3. 7. The Power of the Human Rights Council : A comparative case-study of Afghanistan and Russia

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Amanda Lind; [2021]
    Keywords : Human Rights; UN; Special Procedures; Universal Periodic Review; protection; promotion; civil rights;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to study the power and capacity of the UN Human Rights Council to promote and protect human rights through the recommendations by the Special Procedures and the Universal Periodic Review. The aim is then to analyse the recommendations and their effect by using the Concept of power by Robert Dahl (2007). READ MORE

  4. 8. Starving for Justice? The Compatibility of the United States of America's Unilateral Coercive Measures with the 'Right to Food' in Venezuela

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

    Author : Colm Daragh Kelly Ryan; [2020]
    Keywords : Human Rights Law; Economic Sanctions; Unilateral Sanctions; Unilateral Coercive Measures; Economic Rights; Social Rights; Foreign Policy; Food; Right to Food; USA; United States; Venezuela; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Unilateral coercive measures are a foreign policy tool that are thousands of years old and used by states in response to foreign policy concerns. Their use has become more common throughout the 21st Century, and this raises concerns from a human rights perspective. READ MORE

  5. 9. Normative or Power? Genealogical analysis of citizens' rights promotion within the EU visa liberalisation policy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Nijat Eldarov; [2019]
    Keywords : European Union; normative power; visa liberalisation; power relations; critical security studies.; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Since 2008, the European Union requires the candidate and neighbourhood countries to undertake reforms in the field of citizens’ rights, including protection of minorities in order to give their nationals access to the Schengen area for the short-term stays. However, within the visa liberalisation procedure, the European Union has demonstrated ambivalence in monitoring the implementation of these normative reforms. READ MORE

  6. 10. Media Discourse of the Right to Privacy under Surveillance: An analysis of the media coverage from post-9/11 to post-Snowden US

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Kuntal Roy; [2018-09-21]
    Keywords : Privacy; surveillance; critical discourse analysis; media construction; media representation; national security; social control;

    Abstract : The right to privacy in the age of surveillance is a long-standing controversial issue. This controversy first heightened in 2001, after 9/11 terrorist attacks; and again in 2013, after Edward Snowden‘s mass surveillance disclosure. READ MORE