Browsing by Title
Now showing items 783-802 of 847
-
Ugandas nascent oil industry and the protection and promotion of human rights
(2013)This thesis analyses the human rights implications associated with Uganda’s nascent oil and gas industry. It highlights Uganda’s past human rights record and analyses the threats and opportunities with a view to identifying ... -
The Ukrainian puzzle : pieces of the international community and a human security based approach
(2015)This thesis will make the case that peacekeeping operations and the doctrinal agenda they require create a strategy that, although boasting a massive bearing on the lives of civilians in conflict, does not afford for ... -
The umbrella agreement on personal data transfers for law enforcement: a transatlantic trojan horse? : judicial redress for privacy and data protection violations relating to transatlantic data transfers for law enforcement purposes
(2016)Terrorism has been a major concern for nations across the world. Since 9/11, the international cooperation in the fight against terrorism has only intensified. The largescale use of surveillance technologies has had a ... -
Un droit d’initiative sans limites : la revision partielle de la Constitution suisse par la voie de l’initiative populaire n’est pas soumise au respect des droits de l’homme
(2011)Switzerland possesses well-developed instruments of direct democracy and has an absolute conception of the notion of popular sovereignty. The “right of initiative” gives to the Swiss citizens the possibility to make a ... -
(Un)justified interventionism of the ECtHR in the execution process? From declaratory judgments to indications of non-monetary measures
(2018)This thesis will mainly explore the evolving role of the European Court of Human Rights towards the indication of non-financial remedial measures in Court judgments in order to provide redress to successful applicants that ... -
Under our umbrella : the evolution of disability rights through legal instruments and increased civil society participation
(2016)This research thesis was focused on the evolution of disability policy, from the perspectives of International, regional and national (Zambia and France) legislations that have been put in place for their protection. The ... -
Understanding the deep roots of the polarisation in Venezuela : searching appropriate methods to build a culture of peace
(2013)Considering that nowadays Venezuela is undergoing through a face of transition due to the recent death of the President Hugo Chávez it poses a turn of the political process that started with his raised to the presidency ... -
The underworld of the United Nations peacekeeping operations : a European Court of Human Rights perspective
(2016)The image of the UN began to be tainted in the past 20 years due to numerous allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation committed by personnel related to its peacekeeping operations.The current study briefly assessed the ... -
An uneasy decade: examination of the first ten years of explicit interaction between human rights law and the ICSID Investor-State Arbitration Tribunals
(2013)The investor – state tribunals have gone from attempting to give effective protection to investors’ rights for scarce, individual complaints to addressing fundamental questions about state measures taken for public purpose. ... -
Unfair pre-trial detention and corruption in the criminal justice system. The case of Cameroon
(2015)The massive over-use of pre-trial detention around the world and its excessively prolonged duration represent an alarming but still overlooked human rights abuse undermining the right to presumption of innocence, the right ... -
Universal right to education in Europe? With focus on the Roma in Croatia
(2012)The present thesis explores the situation of the Roma minority and their right to education in Croatia. Since education provides the opportunity to empower oneself and to fully participate in society. it constitutes one ... -
Unlocking the door to justice: domestic workers in diplomats households
(2013)Domestic workers who are employed in diplomats’ households face a huge challenge when their rights are violated. Due to the immunity of their employers, domestic workers have limited access to courts. This ... -
Unmuting voices: Dayak women’s narratives on structural and gendered injustice in oil palm expansion in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
(Global Campus, 2017)This thesis explores how the oil palm expansion process, driven by the capitalisation of nature and labour, renders structural injustice to the Dayak indigenous people in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Using feminist political ... -
Unravelling the puzzle of piracy : a Somali perspective
(2013)The UN Security Council has issued ten resolutions dealing specifically with piracy off the coast of Somalia. There has since been a growing concern among international, regional and maritime actors about the potential ... -
Unravelling the puzzle of piracy: a Somali perspective
(EIUC, 2014-10)The UN Security Council has issued ten resolutions dealing specifically with piracy off the coast of Somalia. There has since been a growing concern among international, regional and maritime actors about the potential ... -
Unresolved cases of Haitian child trafficking in the Dominican Republic : the missing links between the official discourses and the reality
(2012)The presence of Haitian children in the streets of Dominican Republic increased after the terrible earthquake that occurred in Haiti the 12 January 2010. However, it is not a new phenomenon. Studies already dating from ... -
UNSCR 1325 and OSCE police missions: is gender really mainstreamed?
(2011)United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 adopted by the Security Council in 2000 is seen both as an instrumental tool and a benchmark, as it was the first time that the Security Council acknowledged the disproportionate ... -
Up in arms: contradictions and gaps of the arms transfer policy of the EU
(2016)The consolidation of the inclusion of Human Rights standards within the main legal instruments that regulate arms transfers is as such a big step further in the field of arms control. This fact becomes specially important ... -
The use of history in democratization-processes : symbols, traditions, education and truth and justice policies in Europe
(2011)This research analyzes the different ways history is used by states in democratization-processes, both in the short term transition to democracy as for the long term consolidation of democracy. After an attempt to define ...
