Essays about: "un treaty"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 48 essays containing the words un treaty.

  1. 6. A system of weightlessness – Applying the EU general principle of proportionality to secure fundamental rights protection under contemporary EU investment agreements

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

    Author : Pontus Andersson; [2022]
    Keywords : international investment law; public international law; EU law; comparative law; fundamental rights; proportionality; CETA; fair and equitable treatment; right to regulate; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : At the heart of modern investment law it has since long resided a conflict between extensive investment protection norms and public policy interests of host states. After receiving exclusive competence to conclude international investment agreements governing this interrelation, the EU has tried to cater for those latter objectives through the design of these agreements. READ MORE

  3. 7. Getting hard to resist: Prospect of mandatory human rights due diligence in Ukraine

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

    Author : Ihor Konopka; [2021]
    Keywords : Business and human rights; corporate respect for human rights; due diligence; human rights due diligence; mandatory human rights due diligence; corporate civil liability; Ukraine; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The 2011 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) introduced human rights due diligence (HRDD) as a societal expectation to businesses to implement a new kind of due diligence risk management process to ‘know and show’ they respect human rights. Ten years later, mandatory human rights due diligence (mHRDD) legislation imposing a legal duty to carry out HRDD has become mainstream across Europe. READ MORE

  4. 8. The Worst Laid Plans of Mice and Men : NATO and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Oliver Ösmark; [2021]
    Keywords : NATO; nuclear disarmament; nuclear weapons; TPNW; Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons; quantum social science;

    Abstract : After the Cold War ended, the process of nuclear disarmament began to stagnate and in recent years there are signs of backsliding. Efforts to revive the disarmament regime over decades culminated with the drafting and ratification of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in 2017 and 2021 respectively, much to the dismay of nuclear weapons states. READ MORE

  5. 9. Taxing the Digital Economy in Developing Countries - A Legal Comparison Between OECD’s Pillar One and UN’s Article 12B

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

    Author : Elma Hadzovic; [2021]
    Keywords : skatterätt; international tax law; OECD; Pillar One; UN; Article 12B; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Beskattning av den digitala ekonomin har varit en av de mest centrala delarna i den internationella skattekontexten under det senaste decenniet. Digitaliseringen har gett upphov till nya affärsmodeller som har lett till ett ökat tryck på det internationella skattesystemet som inrättades på 1920-talet. READ MORE

  6. 10. Access to Safe and Legal Abortion- a Human Right? : A study of the protection for access to Safe and Legal abortion within Public International Law

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Cornelia Frank; [2020]
    Keywords : Public International Law; Human Rights; Women s Rights; Abortion; Safe and Legal Abortion; Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights;

    Abstract : Abortion is a controversial issue. It is subject of heated debates stemming from morality and ethics. Abortion is also, however, a question of rights. Access to abortion weighs the rights of the foetus against the rights of the mother. READ MORE