Search for dissertations about: "Protection of human rights"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 34 swedish dissertations containing the words Protection of human rights.
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1. Protection of Personnel in Peace Operations : The Role of the 'Safety Convention' against the Background of General International Law
University dissertation from Stockholm : Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The 1994 Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel (Safety Convention) was the first multilateral convention to deal specifically with the protection of personnel engaged in peace operations. It should be viewed against the background of the increasingly volatile environments in which peace operation personnel were required to operate at the beginning of the 1990s. READ MORE
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2. Exploring Responsibility : Public and Private in Human Rights Protection
University dissertation from Department of Political Science, Lund UniversityAbstract : 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
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3. The United Nations Reformed : Responsibility, Protection and the Standing of States
University dissertation from Linköping : Linköpings universitetAbstract : This study is about reform of the United Nations. The study does not address reform proposals that set out to change the organizational structure of the UN, but focuses on initiatives that affect the normative basis of the international society that the United Nations and the UN Charter enable and sustain. READ MORE
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4. Institutionalisation of corporate social responsibilities : synergies between the practices of leading multinational enterprises and human rights law/policy
University dissertation from Department of Law, Lund UniversityAbstract : The study accounts for recent developments in corporate voluntarism and assesses the evolving corporate social responsibility (CSR) regime. CSR proposes a new norm for how large businesses should approach complexity in a modern economy. The first chapter anchors the CSR discussion in a company law and corporate governance context. READ MORE
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5. Making Corporate Social Responsibility an International Concern : Norm Construction in a Globalizing World
University dissertation from Stockholm : Acta Universitatis StockholmiensisAbstract : Since the mid-1990s the issue of corporate social responsibility has become an interest of various actors in the international system and an important item on the international agenda. In spite of the absence of a common definition, the concept generally involves claims on transnational corporations to take responsibility for the promotion and protection of human and labour rights in countries where they operate or otherwise conduct business. READ MORE
