Browsing Norsk senter for menneskerettigheter by Title
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)This paper analyzes the legitimacy of the newly adopted Russian Foreign Agent Law, which compels all politically active non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that receive foreign funding to register as ‘foreign agents’ ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)While the lack of employment opportunities has significantly contributed to the social and economic marginalization of persons with disabilities, the right to work is now clearly set out in Article 27 of the newly enacted ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)The Alien Tort Statute is a 1789 US provision used for raising claims on international core crimes even when committed against foreigners, on foreign soil and with foreign corporations’ complicity. Its uniqueness may permit ...
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Addressing the Right to Self-Determination: The Okinawans’ Claims from the Group-Based Rights PerspectiveRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)This paper discusses the Japanese society from the group-based rights perspective. International human rights law provides the rights mostly in an individualistic form. But there is also a development of the international ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)One key tool in a rights-based approach to enhancing women’s participation in governance is affirmative action. Enabling women’s access to and active participation in governance institutions through women’s Facilitating ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)The African Peer Review Mechanism was launched in 2002 as a ground-breaking initiative, promoting broad-based participation in development in Africa, and signalling a reconstitution of sovereignty on the continent. The ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)The research presented in this thesis examines the potentiality of artificial intelligence as an interrogator within a police interrogation to promote a non biased environment in an effort to mitigate the ongoing racial ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)This research projects investigates the construction of human dignity in the lived experience of poor, Roma women in Oslo, Norway. It seeks to contribute to a more inclusive, less abstract interpretation of human dignity, ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)How can we assess the epistemic quality of democratic decision-making? Sceptics doubt such assessments are possible, as they must rely on controversial substantive standards of truth and rightness. Challenging that scepticism, ...
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(Research report / Forskningsrapport / PublishedVersion, 2016)Den övergripande fråga som ställs i rapporten är: hur kan universitet och högskolor upprätthålla kvalitet i utbildningen? Undersökningen bärs upp av tre delar där vi studerar 1) om högskolepedagogiska kurser stärker lärare ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)Recently, theorists have sought to justify transnational democracy by means of the all-affected principle, which claims that people have a right to participate in political decision-making that affects them. I argue that ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)Tanzania’s natural resources are rich and diverse. Yet, the extractive industries, that work to remove these resources, are riddled with corruption, non-transparency, and limited accountability and governance. This thesis ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was the first international treaty concerned with the protection and promotion of women's human rights following its adoption in 1979 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)While several perspectives could be used to approach the issue of child trafficking, through this study I aim to present from a human rights perspective the key legal, political, and social factors that may explain the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)In 2014, the Norwegian Government voted in favour of prohibiting the practice of immigration detention of asylum-seeking children. Paradoxically, 2014 was also the year when 330 asylum-seeking children were detained at ...