Search for dissertations about: "Human Rights Perspective"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 52 swedish dissertations containing the words Human Rights Perspective.

  1. 1. Human rights as law, language, and space-making : women’s rights movement in post-revolutionary Egypt

    Author : Emma Sundkvist; Lena Halldenius; Linde Lindkvist; Mulki Al-Sharmani; Mänskliga rättigheter; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Egypt; Human rights; Women s movement; Post-revolution; Feminist activism; Mänskliga rättigheter; Kvinnorörelsen; Mänskliga rättigheter; Human Rights; Egypt; Human rights; Women s movement; Post-revolution; Feminist activism;

    Abstract : This dissertation analyses feminist activists’ use of human rights in post-revolutionary Egypt from 2011 to 2019. Drawing on interviews with feminist activists under three fieldwork trips, the dissertation investigates how: activists tried to implement gender equality in the country’s new constitutions, navigated the shrinking public space after 2013, sustained their activism against sexual violence despite a fragmented movement and repressive politics, and how we can understand contentious streets activism against sexual violence from a human rights perspective. READ MORE

  2. 2. Corporate Human Rights Responsibility : A Continuous Quest for an Effective Regulatory Framework

    Author : Patricia Rinwigati Waagstein; Maja Kirilova Eriksson; Pär Hallström; Per Sevastik; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; International Law; Corporate Social Responsibility; Business; Human Rights; Economic; social and Cultural Rights; Multinational Transnational Corporation; International law; Folkrätt; Private International Law; Internationell privaträtt;

    Abstract : This study is build by a premise that there is a need to include regulatory approach in the discourse of business and human rights particularly of economic, social, and cultural rights which often neglected. The study is not expecting to produce exhausted set of rules which can directly or effectively applicable to all global corporation nor a set of global treaty which can cover the whole aspects of corporation and human rights. READ MORE

  3. 3. The Chinese Conception of Human Rights. The Debate on Human Rights in China, 1898-1949

    Author : Marina Svensson; Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; China; Languages and literatures of South and South-East Asia; Chinese; Human Rights; Cultural Relativism; Kinesiska och språk och litteratur från Syd- och Sydostasien; History of Ideas;

    Abstract : This thesis studies the introduction of the idea of human rights to China, and traces the continuing debate on human rights during the period 1898 to 1949. The writings of advocates of human rights such as Zou Rong, Chen Duxiu, Luo Longji and Zhou Jingwen, among others, are discussed and analysed, as are those of critics of the idea of human rights, such as Liang Qichao, Sun Yat-sen, and Wu Jingxiong. READ MORE

  4. 4. As if Peoples Mattered: Critical Appraisal of "Peoples" and "Minorities" from the International Human Rights Perspective and Beyond

    Author : Zelim Tskhovrebov; Juridiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Self-Actualization; Individuation; Games; Self-Determination; International Law; Peoples; Minorities; Human rights; Mänskliga rättigheter;

    Abstract : The subject matter of the thesis is the comprehensive - legal and multidisciplinary - analysis of the terms 'peoples' and 'minorities' in international law. The argument of the author proceeds in four parts: the Problematique which deals with the 'minority challenge' and the international normative response to that challenge; the Critique, criticizing the basic underlying assumptions of the discourse; the Diagnostics, diagnosing the causative factors behind the normative 'malaise'; and the Resolutique, recapping the best international law of human rights offers for the solution of the 'minority' problem on the one hand, and suggesting new ways of looking on the problem, on the other. READ MORE

  5. 5. Making just rights? Mainstreaming Women?s Human Rights and a Gender Perspective

    Author : Sari Kouvo; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

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