Global Campus Awarded Theses
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Every year the regional master’s programmes of Global Campus of human rights select the best master theses of the previous academic year. The selected seven GC master theses cover a range of different international human rights topics and challenges.
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Understanding the Right to Change Legal Gender: A Case Study of Trans Women in Sri Lanka
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)In Sri Lanka, the lives of trans women have faced discrimination, stigmatisation, marginalisation and criminalisation. These legal, administrative and socio-cultural factors urged the state authorities to contribute to ... -
Lebanon’s October Uprising: A Clean Slate for Syrian Refugees?
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)Lebanon’s October uprising of 2019 set off a country-wide movement calling for change affecting the core of the political system. With corruption and clientelism being endemic to the sectarian political establishment ... -
Protection of Children’s Rights to Privacy and Freedom from Online Exploitation and Abuse in Southern Africa. A Case Study of South Africa and Zimbabwe
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)In the past few years there has been an increase in the number of children using the internet. The COVID-19 pandemic has further contributed to the increase in internet usage by children due to the measures taken ... -
Access to Justice for Persons with Disabilities in Kenya: from Principles to Practice
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)Approximately 15% of the world’s population experience a form of disability, with a significant number of them experiencing a severe disability. According to the 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census, about 2.2% of ... -
#Fridaysforfuture. Beyond the Hashtag on Youth Activism for Climate Justice: A Case Study of Slovenia’s Youth for Climate Justice (Mladi Za Podnebno Pravičnost, MZZP)
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)The Anthropocene logic of the ‘faster-higher-further’ perpetuates the continuous human wish and grind for more, constructing a chain of production and consumption that in reality ends up being detrimental to our ... -
“Forgotten Victims of War”. Invisible, though Stigmatised: the Case of Children Born of Wartime Rape and Conflict- Related Sexual Violence
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)Conflict-related sexual violence has many disastrous consequences, yet one consequence that is systematically ignored is the children being born as a result from such violence. This research focuses on children born of ... -
Mi derecho a tener derechos. Políticas públicas de autonomía progresiva y egreso dirigidas a adolescentes bajo cuidados alternativos en Santa Fe
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)En la provincia de Santa Fe (Argentina) la población de adolescentes que se encuentra alojada en el sistema de cuidados alternativos constituye un grupo relevante con respecto a la población total de niñas, niños ... -
Right to data privacy in the digital era: a critical assessment of Malawi’s data privacy protection regime
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)The proliferation of information communication technology (ICT) and consequent increase in the processing of personal data threaten the right to data privacy and related human rights. Although Malawi has comparatively ... -
Between the domination of transnational companies and its discourse on business and human rights: contract farming and banana small farmers in the Davao region (The Philippines)
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)This research examined violations towards small farmers’ rights over banana plantations – with the emphasis that the farmers held their agreements with transnational agribusiness corporations in Santo Tomas and Compostela ... -
When the forest screams. The rights of nature and indigenous rights as a mutually reinforcing resistance platform for the indigenous peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)Indigenous peoples from the Ecuadorian Amazon have historically been dispossessed from their cultural heritage and ancestral territories. In the past, these actions have been justified by the need for natural resources derived ... -
Politics of memory of the recent past in Brazil: the federal government’s role in constructing collective memory between 2003 and 2016
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)Towards the end of the 2010s, the Brazilian federal government once again made discussions about the recent past – regarding the military regime that occurred between 1964 and 1985 – public. This time, however, these ... -
Prosecution of crimes of appropriation of private property before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the international residual mechanism for criminal tribunals
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)Property rights enjoy protection not only during peacetime, but also in times of armed conflict. However, despite the existence of a well-established legal framework, these rights continue to be violated in armed conflicts ... -
Refugees and migrant access to health in transit countries: politics of adaptability, enactment of slow death and inevitability of pain: an ethnography of poor urban neighborhood in Rabat (Morocco)
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)This thesis project builds on three months of ethnographic and interview research undertaken between February-May 2019 to explore refugee and migrant access to health in one of Rabat’s poor neighbourhoods, Youssoufia, which ... -
From democracy to autocracy? Growing threats to civil society and media in Kyrgyzstan
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)Despite the repeal of the ‘foreign agent’ law in 2016 which was initiated in Kyrgyzstan to limit activities of human rights defenders, government officials still continue to oppress them by using other legislative restrictions. ... -
United Nations’ doublethink: economic sanctions and human rights protection
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2018)The most common understanding of ‘use of force’ is associated with military coercion. Examinations in the political and public spheres as well as legal inquiries are extensively provided to most armed conflicts, also in ... -
Community intervention as a means to destigmatize child soldiers and permit reintegration: a comparison case study of Uganda and Iraq
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2018)The stigmatization of former child soldiers inhibits and prevents a child’s reintegration by re-victimizing and re-traumatizing the child and also making the child an outcast in their community. Additionally, there is ... -
“Resistilience”: women’s resistance and resilience in post eviction in North Jakarta
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2018)ABSTRACT The home is mainly a place of paid and unpaid care work for women in poor urban communities in North Jakarta. This thesis substantiates the claim that forced eviction constitutes not only a violation of human ... -
The constitutionality of religious education in Uganda
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2018)The 1995 Constitution of the Republic of Uganda is the first of Uganda’s constitutions to attempt to regulate church-state relations. Article 7 provides that Uganda ‘shall not adopt a state religion.’ This study attempts ... -
Between localised practices and global imaginaries of boycott and peace: decolonial reflections on BDS in Palestine
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2018)Since its formal inception in 2005, the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) has been a central tactic of the global struggle against the Israeli occupation of Palestine and its normalisation. It has also been at the ... -
The influence of extractive companies on police action in socio-environmental conflicts in Peru: analysis and legal contributions from the cases of Xstrata and Yanacocha companies in the period 2011-2012
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2018)This research analyses the influence that extractive companies have on police intervention through extraordinary services in socioenvironmental conflicts, in the Peruvian regions of Cusco and Cajamarca between 2011-2012. ...
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