Search for dissertations about: "Human Rights"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 213 swedish dissertations containing the words Human Rights.

2. 1. Human Rights Learning The Significance of Narratives, Relationality and Uniqueness

   University dissertation from Stockholm : Department of Education, Stockholm University

   Author : Rebecca Adami; Sharon Todd; Agnieszka Bron; David T. Hansen; [2014]
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; human rights; narratives; relationality; uniqueness; Hannah Arendt; Adriana Cavarero; Sharon Todd; Educational Science; pedagogik med inriktning mot utbildningsvetenskap;

   Abstract : Whereas educational policy is mainly concerned with the content of Human Rights Education (HRE), philosophers of education have widely explored the subject and her social condition in terms of social justice education. This thesis draws on philosophers of education in exploring the subject rather than the content of HRE, focusing the study on ontological rather than epistemological aspects of learning. READ MORE

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

   University dissertation from Uppsala : Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Patricia Rinwigati Waagstein; Maja Kirilova Eriksson; Pär Hallström; Per Sevastik; [2009]
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; International Law; Corporate Social Responsibility; Business; Human Rights; Economic; social and Cultural Rights; Multinational Transnational Corporation; LAW JURISPRUDENCE Other law International law; RÄTTSVETENSKAP JURIDIK Övrig rätt 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

5. 3. Access to water Rights, obligations and the Bangalore situation

   University dissertation from Linköping : Linköping University Electronic Press

   Author : Jenny T. Grönwall; Johan Hedrén; Julie Wilk; Srinivasan Janakarajan; [2008]
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; access to water; rights; human rights; water rights; India; Bangalore; tillgång till vatten; rättigheter; mänskliga rättigheter; vattenrättigheter; Indien; Bangalore; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS Water in nature and society; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN Vatten i natur och samhälle;

   Abstract : The city of Bangalore in southern India is undergoing rapid urbanisation and administrative transition. Its growth puts pressure on the available water sources – being mainly the disputed inter-State River Cauvery and the hard-rock aquifers – with ensuing problems of access. READ MORE

6. 4. Exploring Responsibility : Public and Private in Human Rights Protection

   University dissertation from Department of Political Science, Lund University

   Author : Magdalena Bexell; [2005]
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; transnational oil corporations; NGOs; global governance; international norms; responsibility; accountability; public-private; corporate social responsibility; human rights; international relations; Human Rights; Political and administrative sciences; förvaltningskunskap; Mänskliga rättigheter; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap;

   Abstract : The theory and practice of international relations are replete with dilemmas related to the distribution of responsibility for human rights protection. Institutionalized notions of public and private empower and shape knowledge of what the spheres of responsibility signify for different kinds of actors. READ MORE

7. 5. Women's human rights and Islam A Study of Three Attempts at Accommodation

   University dissertation from Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell International

   Author : Jonas Svensson; Jan Hjärpe; Ann Elizabeth Mayer; [2000]
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Human rights; gender; Islam; Fatima Mernissi; Riffat Hassan; A.A. an-Na‘im; HUMANITIES and RELIGION Religion Theology Islamology; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP Religionsvetenskap Teologi Islamologi; Religionsvetenskap; Study of Religions;

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