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Showing 1 to 20 of 1840 for “"Human rights"”.
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From business 'and' human rights to human rights 'in' business
In 2011, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council endorsed the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which set out the norm of ‘corporate responsibility to respect human rights’. This interpretive qualitative study explores the meaning-making processes of human rights and business …
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Climate Change and Human Rights. Exploring Human Rights-Based Climate Litigation
… of climate change litigation grounded in human rights arguments. Its beginning focuses on uncovering the litigants’ incentives and legal position by studying the interconnectedness of climate change and human rights in their relevant international and regional frameworks. Following this …
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Profits versus human rights : accountability for corporate complicity in human rights violations
… to examine the interplay between business and human rights within the context of political transitions from authoritarian to democratic rule. In the wake of the globalisation process and the subsequent breakdown of the Westphalian state system, transnational corporations (TNCs) have acquired …
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Evaluating Human Rights INGOs
… organizations (INGOs) that focus on tackling human rights issues have grown rapidly. These organizations operate internationally and work with governments, legislatures, social movement leaders, activists, donors, and individual citizens. As the number of operating INGOs has risen …
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Genetic manipulation and human rights
… of genetic manipulation within the frame of human rights. The thesis tries to dig deep into the process of genetic manipulation and explain how postmodern philosophy of human nature can reflect dangerously on the hardly-gained human rights.
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Two approaches to human rights
Contemporary philosophy of human rights is dominated by two seemingly opposed approaches. This dissertation is concerned with the choice between them. The traditional approach to human rights is characterized by the belief that human rights are moral rights that all human beings possess simply in …
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Islam, democracy, and human rights : can universal human rights be applied in our relativistic world?
… on the compatibility of the international human rights with the diverse cultural and religious values of our world, in particular, the Islamic Shari'ah, consisting of values that not only extend across different regions but even form an important factor of legitimacy for most Islamic …
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The Law and Human Rights: Is the Law a Mere Parchment Barrier to Human Rights Abuse?
… global analysis of the impact of law on human rights, analyzing the impact of twenty-three constitution provisions and an international covenant on three measures of human rights behavior, over the period of 1976-1996. Three sets of constitutional provisions are analyzed, including 1) ten …
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Theories of human rights in relation to understandings of human rights education: the relevance to diversity
This study explores theories of human rights in order to assess how these are reflected in human rights education (HRE). It uses and develops Dembour‟s (2006) four way categorisation of human rights schools, that is, the natural law, deliberative, protest and discourse schools. The thesis is …
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Human rights and jus Cogens: Questioning the use of normative hierarchy theory in human rights law
… law. As such the recent trend of placing human rights norms in the catalogue of jus cogens has had a significant impact on both domestic and international law. For instance, in Barcelona Traction, Light and power Co, Ltd (Belgium v Spain), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), when …
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UN Peacekeeping Impacts on Human Rights
… operations by the United Nations on the human rights abuses associated with civil wars. Previous research has consistently found evidence that civil wars increase human rights abuses; however, the literature has not adequately analyzed possible factors that could decrease this violence or …
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Visual Recognition of Human Rights Violations
This thesis is concerned with the automation of human rights violation recognition in images. Solving this problem is extremely beneficial to human rights organisations and investigators, who are often interested in identifying and documenting potential violations of human rights within images. It …
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Towards a Theory of Human Rights in Practice: The Role of Plastic Human Rights and International Human Rights Obligations in the UN’s Approach to Cholera in Haiti
… contributes a socio-legal perspective on human rights in practice. The dissertation examines how and why the UN’s international human rights obligations did not gain traction in the reality of the peace operation in Haiti and the organisation’s response to the cholera crisis. The analysis …
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(Transnational) Corporations and Human Rights: an exploration into the accomodation of capital in international human rights law.
… in, if not instigators of, a variety of human rights violations. Despite this evidence, the international community of states has been unwilling or unable to respond to these violations in any adequate measure. At the same time, the discourse of human rights has become integral to state …
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Muslim Perceptions of Human Rights in the Light of Culture, and the Need for Human Rights Education
<p>Studies have pointed out that human rights education (HRE) can help improve cultures and social life by empowering individuals, groups, and communities. HRE can also push cultures to change their perspectives toward other human beings and their own rights. Yet it may be important to consider a …
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I Am Human Rights: Leveraging Social Media Identity Recasting for Human Rights Acceptance in the United States
… evolution. It then posits that in order for human rights to become normalized in the United States, human rights NGOs must adopt the same strategics as their for-profit competitors or risk losing the next generation and becoming obsolete.</p>
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The use of mobile phones for human rights protection: the experiences of Zimbabwean Human Rights Non-Governmental Organisations
… Zimbabwe has experienced a long history of human rights violations stretching from the times of Rhodesia to post-coalition years. The violations have been in various forms, including the use of physical force and the constriction of political, media and electoral spaces. Human Rights NGOs, …
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The Human Rights Act 1998 in Constitutional Context: The Common Law, The Rule of Law, and Human Rights
The Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) is seen as a landmark piece of constitutional legislation that brought about many legal and political changes in the United Kingdom’s human rights architecture. Yet the HRA is vulnerable to repeal; successive governments have promised to repeal or otherwise alter the …
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