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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Social Rights"”.
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The intersection of international and EU law for social rights protection of vulnerable groups: a focus on racial and ethnic groups
With a special emphasis on the social rights of racial and ethnic groups, this thesis aims to provide a critical analysis of the current state of social rights protection under EU law and offer recommendations for improvement to ensure greater social justice and equality for all. It aims to …
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An ethical assessment of the impact of inequitable land ownership patterns on women’s economic and social rights: a case study of Mumbwa district
… land ownership patterns on women’s economic and social rights in Mumbwa district. Despite more women than men being dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods, the majority of women in Zambia do not own land due to inequitable land ownership patterns. The problem is that while it is generally …
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An ethical assessment of the impact of inequitable land ownership patterns on women’s economic and social rights: a case study of Mumbwa district
… land ownership patterns on women’s economic and social rights in Mumbwa district. Despite more women than men being dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods, the majority of women in Zambia do not own land due to inequitable land ownership patterns. The problem is that while it is generally …
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La protezione dei diritti sociali nell'ordinamento dell'Unione Europea
This study deals with the protection of social rights in Europe and aims to outline the position currently held by these rights in the EU law. The first two chapters provide an overview of the regulatory framework in which the social rights lie, through the reorganisation of international sources. …
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State Transformation and European Integration: The Expression of Rights (1990-2014)
… on the expression of civic, political, and social rights in these states. Without an accurate understanding of how integration has transformed states, those involved in the creation of state institutions--now and in the future--cannot hope to know how their societies will be affected by …
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Nuovi equilibri tra la tutela della concorrenza e la tutela dei diritti sociali
… of trade competition and the protection of social rights in the Italian, European and international legal systems, the research aims to identify the points of contact and the differences between the approaches adopted at different levels of government. In particular, while in Italy and the …
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The Impact of EU Fundamental Rights on the Employment Relationship
… the impact of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (the Charter) on the employment relationship. The Charter has long been praised for its inclusion of socio-economic rights alongside traditional civil and political rights. It might have been thought, therefore, that the Charter would be a …
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Civil Society's Role in Democratisation: An Assessment of the Central Bolivian Labour Confederation's Role in the Political Economy of post-Neoliberal Bolivia
… political democracy has not led to comprehensive social rights. One possible reason for the stalled democratisation currently facing Bolivia is the nearly quarter of a century of comprehensive neoliberalism, which began in 1986. During this period policy formation was largely decided by small, …
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German Nationality: an Illustration of Institutionalized Discrimination
… residents, mostly ethnic Turks, with vague social rights and no political groups. This thesis is an attempt at uncovering the developments that have lead to this situation by examining the history of German citizenship within the context of a large disenfranchised ethnic minority since the …
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Tryggheten inför rätta : Om rätten till förtidspension enligt förvaltningsdomstolarna under tre decennier
… challenges of the future. At the same time the Social Insurance Agency has been criticized both for treating similar disability cases differently and not adhering to the letter of the law. During the last decades a number of reforms with the aim to strengthen both the rule of law and the …
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Building the border: The treatment of immigrants in France, 1884-1914
… of a citizen-foreigner border. The border was a social structure which functioned both to exclude alien workers from political and social rights and to subordinate foreigners in the labor market and the occupational hierarchy. It was formalized and reinforced by several French ""immigrant …
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Redressing Social Inequality through Transitional Justice
By questioning whether addressing social inequality can be considered a form of transitional justice, this dissertation leads a critical discussion on the assumptions of traditional or narrow understandings of transitional justice, how these obscure the potential for transitional justice to tackle …
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Lietuvos Respublikos Valstybinio socialinio draudimo fondo mokamų pensijų administravimo analizė /
Bachelor's thesis dealt with the social benefits and the strategic aspects of governance. Thesis consists of theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part (Chapters I and II) gives an overview of the welfare state model, the state social insurance system concept, Lithuania and other Baltic …
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Outcomes of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in the Arab World
… and it is currently the 2nd most ratified human rights convention after the Convention on the Rights of the Child. However critics argue that many of the states that ratified CEDAW continue to discriminate against women and girls. The region of the world where critics seem to focus much of their …
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The role of the disability grant in the lives of visually disabled adults on the Cape Flats
… spectrums of studies have been conducted around social assistance, producing a range of evidence that shows how it impacts on beneficiaries. The question remains as to the effectiveness of cash transfers like the disability grant in minimising poverty for disabled adults and their families. There …
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Rights, mobility and integration of intra-corporate transferees in Europe: the case of Slovakia and England
… of international labour law, EU law, human rights and migration. It focuses on workers employed and transferred temporarily across borders by multinational corporations within their company structure – intra-corporate transferees (ICTs) – and on their family members. The thesis analyses the …
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Theorizing 'Transitional Justice'
… for criminal prosecutions following mass human rights violations and advocates of restorative justice claiming that non-prosecutorial forms of justice like truth-telling are better suited for post-conflict societies. This debate was eventually settled, at least in the field, by a belief that …
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Regionalist Social Movements in Contemporary Chile: Production of Space, Place, Territory, and Scale Through Collective Action
… the organization of several territorially based social movements in Chile has expressed a significant level of social discomfort about the political and economic system of the country. The central objective of this dissertation is to analyze how motivations, achievements, and failures of these …
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The transformative potential of human rights : the human right to water and the courts
… to explore the transformative potential of human rights and examine the role of the court as a safeguard against majoritarian and neoliberal excess. The courts, despite their institutional limitations, have a significant role to play in facilitating the enjoyment of the full catalogue of economic …
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International criminal law and refugee protection: The interplay between international criminal law and Article 1F(A) of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
… a comprehensive codification of refugee rights internationally. Whilst assuring basic civil and social rights to millions of refugees worldwide, the Convention in Article 1F(a) seeks to exclude from its protection individuals determined to have committed international crimes prior to …
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