Search for dissertations about: "NGOs and human rights"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words NGOs and human rights.

2. 1. NGOs as child rights implementers in India : How NGO workers negotiate human rights responsibility in 'partnership' with a neoliberal and restrictive state

   Author : Therese Boje Mortensen; Mänskliga rättigheter; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; child rights; India; NGOs; NGO-state partnerships; human rights; CHILDLINE; duty bearing; ethnography; conceptual analysis; implementation gap; neoliberalism; state;

   Abstract : Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) increasingly enter into “partnerships” with states to implement human rights, a phenomenon that has been studied both as a necessary inclusion of civil society in human rights practice, and as a slippery slope towards a neoliberal state retreat. What remains to be studied is how this partnership practice shapes the concepts of human rights and their duty bearers. READ MORE

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

   Author : Magdalena Bexell; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   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

5. 3. Controlling the Swedish state : Studies on formal and informal bodies of control

   Author : Isabel Schoultz; Tove Pettersson; Åström Karsten; Penny Green; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Parliamentary Ombudsman; Chancellor of Justice; United Nations; European Court of Human Rights; NGOs; control of the state; accountability; state crime; Sweden; techniques of neutralizations; problem representations; immigration; kriminologi; Criminology;

   Abstract : The dissertation aims to develop an understanding of the outcomes and limitations of formal and informal control of the Swedish state, and of the positions and strategies of the social agents involved in this field. The dissertation contributes with new perspectives on controls directed at the state, comparing various control organs (the Parliamentary Ombudsman, the Chancellor of Justice, the United Nations, the European Court of Human Rights and NGOs) and focusing on a wide range of wrongs and harms by the Swedish state. READ MORE

6. 4. The Legal Status of Non-Governmental Organisations in International Law

   Author : Anna-Karin Lindblom; Philippe Sands; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Law; NGOs; non-governmental organisations; subjects of international law; international legal personality; non-state actors; rättsvetenskap; juridik; icke-statliga organisationer; NGO:s; folkrättssubjekt; folkrättssubjektivitet; icke-statliga aktörer; LAW JURISPRUDENCE; RÄTTSVETENSKAP JURIDIK; Private International Law; Internationell privaträtt;

   Abstract : Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are increasingly the subject of public debate, and it is often asserted that they play an informal role within the international legal system. At the same time, the classical concepts related to the subjects of international law seem to be constructed for a situation where non-state actors have no or limited international legal personality. READ MORE

7. 5. Games of Justice: Ethnographic Inquiries on Space, Subjectivity and Law in Northern Kurdistan

   Author : Cansu Bostan; Rättssociologiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Law and justice; Spatialization; Truth-subjectivity regime; Game of truth; Becomings; Ethnography; Amed; Northern Kurdistan;

   Abstract : This study presents an ethnographic exploration of subjective experiences relying on different historicizations and the ways they inform the connections between law and justice in Northern Kurdistan. By analyzing law and justice as ethnographic objects whose forms and functions are contingent upon being named and attributed meanings, inquiries focus on various historicizations/spatializations in Northern Kurdistan to understand: i) the modern spatiotemporal boundaries of the Turkish nation-state, its law and justice narratives, ii) experiences informing justice aspirations and their translations into the experience-distant language of state law, and iii) appearing/disappearing mechanisms attributed justness and functions of legality beyond the state law. READ MORE