Essays about: "torture"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 71 essays containing the word torture.

1. 16. Universal Jurisdiction and the Fight Against Torture: Ensuring Accountability Through a Human Rights Centred Approach

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

   Author : Elina Hammarström; [2020]
   Keywords : universal jurisdiction; torture; accountability; public international law; human rights; human rights approach; UNCAT; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Within international human rights law, the prohibition of torture is absolute and uncontroversial. However, despite considerable efforts to end it, torture remains a pervasive problem all over the world, in part due to the widespread impunity for such acts. READ MORE

3. 17. From Victory to Defeat? How Human Rights Infringements in Foreign Policy During the War on Terror Contributed to the Decline of Democracy in the US

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Marco Bouwmans; [2020]
   Keywords : decline of democracy; foreign policy; human rights infringements; War on Terror; equality; historical institutionalism;

   Abstract : As democracy globally declines according to the indices that measure the level of democracy around the world, existing literature lines up a wide spectrum of explanations for this decline. However, the impact of foreign policy on the domestic democratic system is widely overlooked. READ MORE

4. 18. The extraterritorial application of the European Convention on Human Rights and the United Nations Convention against Torture in frozen conflict regions as a tool of ensuring the prohibition of torture — the cases of Transnistria and Abkhazia

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

   Author : Lidia Carchilan; [2019]
   Keywords : frozen conflict; grey zones; extraterritoriality; jurisdiction; state responsibility; torture; de facto governments; effective control; Transnistria; Abkhazia; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The existence of frozen conflicts in Europe are posing difficulties in the application of international human rights treaties. This is due to, de facto governments of break-away regions not cooperating with international mechanisms and refusing to comply with regional and international instruments. READ MORE

5. 19. Sexual violence in non-international armed conflict: a tactic of warfare or an act of torture under international law?

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

   Author : Tyson Nicholas; [2019]
   Keywords : Conflict-related sexual violence; sexual violence in armed conflict; war crime; crime against humanity; genocide; torture; tactic of warfare; international humanitarian law; international human rights law; international criminal law; non-international armed conflict; UN Security Council Resolution 1820 2008 ; Un Security Council Resolution 1325 200 ; Women Peace and Security; South Sudan; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Conflict-related sexual violence should not be regarded just a symptom of war or evidence of its violent excess. It is criminalised as a violation of international law, as a war crime, a crime against humanity and, in some cases, as a component of genocide. READ MORE

6. 20. Sanctions as a tool for compliance : A quantitative study on violations of international humanitarian law and imposition of economic sanctions

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

   Author : Johanna Mäkinen; [2019]
   Keywords : economic sanctions; international humanitarian law; child soldiers; terror; torture; sexual violence; one-sided violence;

   Abstract : The 1990’s did not only see the end of the Cold War, it experienced several man-made humanitarian crises, an emerging debate on the responsibility to protect, and an increased number of sanctions. All at the same time. READ MORE