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Do Human Rights Violations Increase the Risk of Civil War? Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
Despite the fact that there are strong assumptions surrounding the effects of human rights violations on the risk of civil war onsets, very few researchers have actually tested the relationship in an empirical and systematic ...
Gender Based Discrimination in Marriage and Family Life : A Case Study of Pakistan Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Traditional values and conservative religious interpretations are considered to be a great challenge to the international human rights regime. This is true especially in the case of Pakistan where women’s human rights are ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
The thesis is the result of the field work done with a group of children living in a shelter named "Hijos de la Luna" which took place in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico during 2010 and 2011. By implementing the human rights ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This paper aims to shed light on labour rights, specifically the freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining. The thesis attempts to justify labour rights historically, philosophically, morally and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
The thesis is analysing the way in which the fourth industrial revolution is affecting the right to work, rights at work and the right to social protection and the capacity of states to protect, respect and fulfil those ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
In this thesis the primary task has been to explore the potentials in Martha Nussbaum’s capabilities approach, especially in terms of how she balances norms requiring respect for cultural diversity and individual choice ...
Sexual violence : Sexual violence against women in Iran compred with International Human Rights Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Rape, forced marriage, forced pregnancy; sexual slavery, forced prostitution and forced sterilization are taken as sexual crimes by the world community. Besides that the specific customs and traditions, as well as superstitious ...
The Politics of Human Rights and Global Justice : Rawls and Habermas on the Prevention of Gross Violations of Human Rights Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
The thesis compares the ideas of two prominent figures in contemporary political philosophy, John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas, about humanitarian intervention and initiatives to preempt such moves. Indeed this thesis asks ...
Implementing Universal Education as Human Right and as a Millennium Development Goal: Diverging or Converging Approaches? Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
The present thesis was directed to understand the conceptual and operational implications of approaching the objective of universal education as a human right and as a MDG in the context of development activities. The two ...