Browsing Human Rights by Title
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Ensamkommande och försvunna barn är också rättighetsbärare – En analys av barnrättsperspektivet och sociala konstruktioner i uppdrag, kartläggning och åtgärdsförslag om ensamkommande barn som försvinner
(2019-09-20)In 2015, over 35 000 unaccompanied minors arrived in Sweden. As a result of a more strictly regulated migration policy and changes in legislation, some of them have deviated. The knowledge about deviation is low, whereupon ... -
Factors Influencing Child Trafficking: An analysis of cases reported in Ghana
(2018-09-25)Trafficking in persons is a global challenge. Several millions of victims are affected by trafficking annually. Most of these victims are children who are exploited sexually and into forced labour. There have been global ... -
”Det får ju inte drabba barnen” – en studie om villkor och mänskliga rättigheter inom ekonomiskt bistånd
(2017-12-06)Everyone has the right to an adequate standard of living according to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and cultural rights article 11. In Sweden, one way of working with the realization of this article is the ... -
Financialization and human rights abuses provoked by business: the case of Samarco disaster in Brazil
(2017-09-13)The aim of this study is to explore the implications of the financialization process on human rights compliance by business, based on an analysis of the Samarco case, in Brazil. In 2015, Samarco Company’s tailing dam ... -
Förbud mot rasistiska organisationer i Sverige (?) : En idealtypsanalys av den svenska riksdagsdebatten 1968-2019
(2021-10-14)In 1971, Sweden ratified The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), without making a reservation to Article 4b. This particular article obliges all ratified states to ... -
Från barn till flyktingbarn - en diskursanalys av dokument som används vid arbete med barns asylutredningar
(2021-02-09)The Swedish Migration Agency assesses and decide on children's asylum cases in Sweden. The Swedish Aliens Act, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and, since 2016, the Temporary Act, are the main laws applied when ... -
Human rights within the discussion of entrepreneurship: On a secondary level in the education system
(2014-06-27)In Sweden in the year of 2011 a new curriculum was put in place on the secondary level. This curriculum contains the introduction of human rights and the demand that human rights shall be visible within all subjects on the ... -
Humanizing (Anti)corruption: The socio-legal values of a human rights-based approach to corruption
(2019-09-03)This master’s thesis intends to contribute to the current academic and policy debate on the values of determining whether a particular human rights violation was caused by a corrupt behavior; and to defend a human rights-based ... -
I don’t see a future being gay in this country: A non-legally binding charter and its consequences for queer women in Poland.
(2021-10-14)LGBTQ rights are under attack in Europe. Poland is one of its most homophobic countries and many municipalities have announced themselves ‘LGBT-free zones’ by adopting the Family Charter (henceforth the Charter), which is ... -
I skuggan av en brottsutredning: En rättssociologisk undersökning om Polismyndighetens brottsofferstöd
(2022-02-03)The judicial system in Sweden has a tradition of focusing on the perpetrator of the crime. The lesser focus on victims may lead to a decreased focus on victims’ human rights. This raises the question of how victims of crime ... -
Indigenous justice in Guatemala: Indigenous women’s access to justice versus indigenous communities’ collective rights
(2022-05-20)In 2016, the Constitutional Court of Guatemala ruled in favor of validating the application of ancestral justice by the indigenous authorities of the community of Comitancillo, San Marcos, to an individual who raped a ... -
Intersectionality and the Vulnerability of Irregular Migrant Women to Sexual Assault: the Journey and Arrival to the U.S./Mexico Border
(2017-08-09)This research looks at the sexual assault of irregular migrant women on the journey and arrival to the United States/Mexico border from an intersectional perspective. It aims to analyze this topic through understanding ... -
Kvinnors rättigheter i riksdagsdebatten: en studie av hur kvinnors rättigheter debatterats i kammaren mandatperioden 2010-2014
(2016-09-14)Women’s rights are debated today in Sweden as well as in the rest of the world, though it is not a new topic. Ever since the subject first started being discussed the view on what rights women should have and how they ... -
Lärares gemensamma teoretiska utgångspunkt i att arbeta mot rasism i undervisningen: En idéanalys av Lgr22
(2022-12-22)Sweden has ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), which both establish every person’s rights in the conventions without any ... -
Marginalisation of bisexual asylum seekers: a discourse analysis of Swedish case law
(2024-03-15)Bisexual individuals are often construed as ‘half homosexuals’, and thus seen as less vulnerable to sexual minority intolerance and persecution. According to bisexuality scholars, however, bisexual individuals are subjected ... -
Mäns våld mot kvinnor i nära relationer - En kvalitativ intervjustudie om socialsekreterares upplevelser av att arbeta med våldsutsatta kvinnor
(2024-03-15)Men`s violence against women is a global problem and it is something that has existed for many years. It is a problem that many human rights organizations highlight and that the Women`s Convention works to abolish all ... -
“Mäns våld mot kvinnor ska upphöra” En kritisk diskursanalys av Sveriges nationella våldsförebyggande program på området mäns våld mot kvinnor (2022)
(2024-03-15)Combating men’s violence against women has long been on the political agenda in Sweden and has intensified over the years. A national violence prevention program in the area of men’s violence against women has been in place ... -
Mänskliga rättigheter i samhällskunskapen: Utifrån ett lärarperspektiv
(2013-03-05)Human rights have been added to the new curriculum which came into force the 1st of July 2011 in the Swedish Upper Secondary school. The purpose with this master thesis is to compare the old and the new curriculum as part ... -
Media Discourse of the Right to Privacy under Surveillance: An analysis of the media coverage from post-9/11 to post-Snowden US
(2018-09-21)The right to privacy in the age of surveillance is a long-standing controversial issue. This controversy first heightened in 2001, after 9/11 terrorist attacks; and again in 2013, after Edward Snowden‘s mass surveillance ... -
Mental Health Rights of Incarcerated Mothers who are Accompanied by their Children in a Kenyan Prison
(2016-09-29)The purpose of the study is to examine how incarcerated mothers accompanied by their children in prison are able to claim their right to mental health care as well as if and how this right is fulfilled. Instead of the ...