Search for dissertations about: "Rights"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 672 swedish dissertations containing the word Rights.

  2. 21. Time to farm : A qualitative inquiry into the dynamics of the gender regime of land and labour rights in subsistence farming: an example of the Chiweshe communal area, Zimbabwe

    Author : Karin Steen; LUCSUS; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Food production; gender dynamics; institutional change; labour rights; land rights; polygyny; power; rights-in-person; subsistence farming; sub-Saharan Africa;

    Abstract : In the context of multiple stressors such as land shortage and food insecurity, the thesis deals with gendered land and labour rights as a social aspect of food production in subsistence agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. Using the Chiweshe communal area in Zimbabwe as an example, it identifies, investigates and draws conclusions on higher order social processes of gender, power and incremental institutional change in a local context. READ MORE

  4. 22. Virtue Ethics, Bioethics, and the Ownership of Biological Material

    Author : Barbro Björkman; Sven Ove Hansson; Brad Hooker; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Biological material; ownership; rights; organ; donation; property; commodification; kidney; virtue ethics; natural rights; transplantation; transplant; social organisation; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen;

    Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis is to show how some ideas in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics can be interpreted and used as a productive way to approach a number of pressing issues in bioethics. Articles I-II introduce, and endorse, a social constructivist perspective on rights (as opposed to the more traditional natural rights idea). READ MORE

  5. 23. A Right to Self-Determination and a Privilege to Independence : A Legal Assessment of the Prospects for Peace & Security in the Middle East

    Author : Marie-Hélène Boccara; Jan Klabbers; Karen Knop; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : International law; International Law; Middle East; West Bank; Self-Determination; Independence; Secession; Hohfeld; Rights; Human Rights; Democracy; Folkrätt; Folkrätt; Mellanöstern; Israel; Västbanken; Gazaremsan; Självbestämmanderätt; Privilege; Självständighet; Demokrati; Mänskliga rättigheter;

    Abstract : This thesis A Right to Self-Determination and a Privilege to Independence: A Legal Assessment of the Prospects for Peace & Security in the Middle East, deals with the concept of self-determination and its application to the Middle East conflict with the “Palestine Question” in its midst. The thesis has two parts, Part I Self-Determination: Revisited Content and New Legal Boundary and Part II The Arab-Israeli Conflict with the respective conclusions and analysis intertwined in the final Chapter 5. READ MORE

  6. 24. Biobank Research : Individual Rights and Public Benefit

    Author : Joanna Stjernschantz Forsberg; Stefan Eriksson; Mats G. Hansson; Angus Dawson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Biobank; Ethics; Consent; Returning results; Individual rights; Public good; Medicinsk vetenskap; Medical Science;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between individuals and society in the context of healthcare and medical research, more specifically concerning the rights and duties of individuals in regard to biobank-based research. My starting point is that we all have a strong vested interest in improved healthcare, and therefore the possibilities to conduct important research should be optimized. READ MORE

  7. 25. Ethical aspects of owning human biological material

    Author : Barbro Björkman; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; biological material; ownership; rights; organ donation; property; commodification; kidney; virtue ethics; natural rights; transplantation; transplant; social organisation; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen;

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