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1. Comfortably numb : Exploring the impact of moral disengagement on luxury emissions
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUSAbstract : Those least responsible for climate change are most vulnerable to its impacts, raising the question of climate justice and moral responsibility for emissions. This thesis combines Shue’s concept of subsistence- and luxury emissions, with Bandura’s theory of moral disengagement. READ MORE
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2. Digital natives’ experience of early and continuous exposure to pornography
University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : With the technological advancements of the 21st century, online pornography has become increasingly available to children and adolescents, and this research aims to investigate how individuals who started watching pornography at an early age experience pornography. The study implements a phenomenological approach and is based on 13 qualitative interviews with participants who started watching pornography before the age of 15. READ MORE
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3. LGBTQ+ People & Disasters - A Queer Human Rights-Based Critique of Vulnerability
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : 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
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4. The Chilean Old-Age Pension System in Light of International Human Rights Law and the Inter-American Jurisprudence on the Right to Social Security
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : In the early 1980s, during the darkest years of Pinochet’s dictatorship, an apparently innocuous but radical decision was made: to implement an old-age pension system based on individual accounts mandatorily administered by private for-profit entities called ‘pension fund administrators’ (‘AFPs’, by its acronym in Castilian), in which the workers’ social security regarding old-age pensions was in practice totally dependent on their individual saving capacity during their working life. This was a completely novel system at that time, even at the international level, and part of a package of reforms allegedly directed to refound and modernise the country, deeply transforming the functions of the State and the role of the private sector, and causing a multiplicity of consequences felt until today in all possible areas of society and where, of course, human rights are no exception. READ MORE
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5. A Feminist Mixed Methods Analysis of Gender Equality Concepts and Data for Sustainable Development Goal 5 Baseline Indicators in Kenya
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of GenderAbstract : Background: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were launched in 2015 to be achieved by 2030. Goal 5 aims to achieve gender equality and empower women and girls. This study conducts a feminist analysis of gender equality concepts and data with the aim of finding adequate baseline indicators for measuring SDG 5 progress in Kenya. READ MORE
