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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Human Rights Organizations"”.
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Beyond the Cloth: Exploring How Women are Represented in Human Rights Organizations through Bangladesh's Garment Industry
… thesis conducts a textual analysis of several human rights organizations. It looks at how human rights organizations represent women in the garment industry. I investigate a variety of organizations and look at how they utilize women’s voices to demonstrate how human rights organizations frame …
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The danger of the single legal story: the effects of international human rights legalization on land issues in Africa
… of the constraints inherent in international human rights law, upheld as the gold standard for safeguarding the rights of rural communities in the context of resource extraction within the African landscape. The objective is to render visible the constraints imposed by international human …
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Land Grabs and Implications on Food Sovereignty and Social Justice in Senegal
… the diverse perspectives of market enthusiasts, human rights organizations, peasants, the state, and international financial organizations on large-scale land acquisitions. Based on primary research, I argue that the state of Senegal plays an active role in permitting “land grabs” and that they …
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TRUTH COMMISSIONS IN TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE. WORKING THROUGH THE PAST IN CHILE AND ROMANIA
… parties, victim’s groups, civil society, human rights organizations, the judiciary, and the media participate in truth commission processes to achieve multiple objectives. What makes them essentially deliberative is that the commissioners and the staff constantly makes choices when they …
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THE PROMOTION OF THE AFRICAN HUMAN AND PEOPLES' RIGHTS SYSTEM IN THE GAMBIA, A CROSS CULTURAL & AFRICOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
… and effectiveness of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, African human and Peoples' rights organizations, and the government of the Gambia in their efforts to propagate the institutions and legal instruments of the African Human and Peoples' Rights System (AHPRS) in general and …
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Peacebuilding and Gender Inclusivity: The Case of Nagorno-Karabakh
<p>The work of women’s groups and civil society organizations led by women in conflict zones is underestimated and under resourced, yet these groups continue to be a voice of the marginalized. By examining the case of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, focusing on the …
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Mediating Gender Violence: "Witnessing Publics," Activism, and the Ethics of Human Rights Claim Making
Based on fieldwork with human rights organizations in New York City and Belize, Central America, this dissertation explores--through the prism of ethics--how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) represent violence against indigenous women--in text, image, and action--as human rights "evidence." By …
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Food Sovereignty: A Critical Case
… to a global imposition of intellectual property rights over seed and agriculture science, thus catalyzing a process of accumulation by dispossession. Those who have been dispossessed of their seed, knowledge, food cultures, and social relations of production, however, have not stood idly by. NGO, …
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The Burden of Witnessing: Media and Mobilization in the Age of Genocide
… fallen to media actors including journalists and human rights organizations from international NGOs to local grassroots social movements, who use cameras to document abuses and appeal to action. Embedded in these uses is the Enlightenment conviction that exposure, the making public of these …
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An Inferentially Robust Look at Two Competing Explanations for the Surge in Unauthorized Migration From Central America
… advocates, progressive media outlets, and human rights organizations identify poverty and violence (the Poverty and Violence Hypothesis) in Central America as the primary triggers responsible. In contrast, while most government officials, conservative think tanks, and the agencies that work …
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Suelen callar : the institutional perceptions and treatments of the sexuality and sexual abuse of people with intellectual and psychological disabilities in Guatemala
The understandings and treatments of the sexual rights of people with intellectual and psychological disabilities vary in different societies. However, one issue that is common in most societies is that this group of people experiences the highest rates of sexual violence and is regularly …
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Retracing Footsteps of the Literati: Towards Understanding Literacy Development through Stories of Malawian Teacher Educators
… is a single song in which nations, governments, human rights organizations, communities, and parents harmoniously blend their voices, it is that being literate is valuable and valued. Being literate entails one's access to and interaction with text in one's environment (Harris & Hodges, 1995). …
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Moterų santuokinė migracija Rytų ir Pietryčių Azijoje: Pietų Korėjos atvejo analizė /
… anthropologists, sociologists, culturologists, human rights organizations, East and South-East Asian and Korean researchers and those who are interested in globalization, multicultural families and cross-border marital migration.
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Kuduro, rap and resistance: Politics of music and activism in ‘new’ hegemonic Angola
… citizenship, electronic capitalism, visibility, human rights I introduce kuduro music as a vantage point to uncover the political landscape of Angola where critical voices do not emerge with ease. I argue that kuduro, the globally known and disseminated genre of dance music, has been hijacked by …
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El impacto del régimen de excepción en la presunción de inocencia de las Niñas Niños y Adolescentes, capturados en el departamento de San Salvador, 2022–2023
… impactando negativamente en sus derechos humanos dejando al margen los mecanismos de protección. El objetivo principal de la investigación es determinar de qué manera el derecho de presunción de inocencia es vulnerado por los cambios ocurridos y cómo las instituciones de seguridad y …
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Non-Governmental Organizations and Anti-Racist Resistance in Greater Rio de Janeiro
… the relationships between non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and local anti-racist activists and organizers in Greater Rio de Janeiro. Through fieldwork carried out from 2019 to 2021, this work considers how the region’s contemporary organizing and activist terrains become dominated and …
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The politics behind the establishment of United Nations-mandated fact-finding missions: the case of Myanmar
… been seen to involve systematic violations of human rights. Crimes such as arbitrary arrest, torture, or forced labour already featured centrally in the work on Myanmar by human rights organizations in the 1980s, and these and many other apparent human rights violations, to a certain extent, …