Global Campus Europe (EMA) Awarded Theses: Recent submissions
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Improving the International Regulation of Cybersex Trafficking of Women and Children through the Use of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)Today, perpetrators of human trafficking for sexual exploitation are using cyberspace to recruit, advertise and exercise control over women and children, who are intrinsically more vulnerable to this crime. The Internet ... -
When Forgetting Is Dangerous. Transitional Justice, Collective Remembrance and Brazil’s Shift to Far-Right Populism
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)Transitional justice measures such as, inter alia, trials, truth commissions and institutional reforms or a lack thereof impact how societies deal with the past and help shape the collective memories of societies and ... -
Democratic Deficit Theory: A Reversed Approach Why Radical Political Changes in Member States Affect the Quality of Democracy in the EU
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)The thematic of the democratic deficit has stirred passions and created divisions among scholars, who find no consensus on how to answer it. Too often, the methodological approaches implemented to deal with the democratic ... -
Environmental Justice, Climate Change and Human Rights. Different Contributions, Different Consequences and Different Capabilities Should Equal Different Human Rights Obligations
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)The current environmental crisis poses itself as one of the biggest threats to the enjoyment of human rights. Everywhere, people´s human rights are at risk; however vulnerable communities, particularly the ones in poorer ... -
Securitising Children Rights: Victims and Heirs of Terrorism. A Critical Analysis of France’s Approach to Children of Foreign Terrorist Fighters
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)The complex reality of children of ISIS foreign terrorist fighters stranded in inhumane camps in Syria presents an unprecedented phenomenon but one for which a rights-based approach exists under the international child ... -
Blockchain and journalism: the intersection between blockchain-based technology and freedom of the press
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)Quality journalism is essential to democracy, as it is a means of empowering people with information. Yet, journalists, and press freedom itself, are under threat. The number of journalist assassinations and forced di ... -
“A community of shared destiny” : how China is reshaping human rights in Southeast Asia
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)As China re-emerges on the world stage as a great power, fuelled by intertwined ethno-nationalism and a sense of manifest destiny with roots on its identity as a civilisational state, it is increasingly seeking to reshape ... -
The use of human rights law in climate change litigation : inquiring human rights obligations of States in the context of climate change; and the use of human rights law in Urgenda and other climate cases
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)Climate litigation has become very popular in recent years. Increasing numbers of citizens are taking their governments to court for their lack of action to combat climate change. Many of these lawsuits are (partly) based ... -
In pain thou shalt bring forth children? For a human right to pain relief in childbirth
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)In recent years, increasing attention has been dedicated to the quality of childbirth conditions for women around the world, following the wave of civil society movements that promoted the protection of human rights ... -
Remembering without confronting : memorialization as a reparation without coming to terms with the past. Case study: Ulucanlar Prison Museum
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)The aim of the present study is to analyse Ulucanlar Prison Museum, as an example of the memorial museum genre, and as a memorialisation attempt of an era which was marked with a confrontation discourse in Turkey. The ... -
The making of human rights polities: contentious governance and the uneven implementation of human rights. The case of irregular migrants’ unequal access to healthcare in Spain after Royal Decree Law 16/2012
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2018)The emergence of ‘new nationalism’ undermines the principle of universality and threatens the realisation of human rights of irregular migrants. Within this context, and that of an economic crisis, Royal Decree-Law ... -
Is offshoring the solution? The EU and the extraterritorial processing of asylum claims
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2018)This thesis explores the topic of the extra territorialisation of processing of asylum claims by the European Union (EU) and its member states (MS). In particular, it focuses on the compatibility of the creation of ... -
Images and human rights: towards sovereignty or subversion
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2018)The aim of this thesis is to investigate the impact of images upon the human rights movement. It will examine the potential of images to advance and repress human rights by drawing out trends in the ways images are ... -
Pragmatic peace : the UNTAES peacekeeping mission as example for peaceful reintegration of occupied multiethnic territories
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2018)Twenty years after the armed conflict in Croatia ended with the completion of the Peaceful Reintegration of the Danube region on 15 January 1998, the war still echoes in the Croatian society. In contrast, the United ... -
“Slowly, incest is being legalized throughout Europe” : detecting human rights vulnerabilities in fake news using critical discourse analysis
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2018)Liberal democracy has struggled to respond to so-called fake news. The term is used to describe content and discredit the media, and it is increasingly seen as the tool of illiberal actors. This research examines how ... -
The power within music : human rights in the context of music
(EIUC, 2017)‘Music has an elaborate history in human civilization’ by providing one of humanity’s most essential cultural expressions and being instrumentalised in diverse ways. The power of music to mobilise people through propaganda, ... -
Blood or soil, which one is thicker? : the obligations of EU member-states for the international protection of stateless children
(EIUC, 2017)Statelessness has grave implications for the lives of millions of children across the globe. Without a nationality, children cannot have their rights effectively protected, despite the international protections enshrined ... -
Hope for the Northern triangle's lost generation : battling detention of unaccompanied children at the Southern border of México
(EIUC, 2017)Since former President Barack Obama declared a humanitarian crisis in 2014, a time when up to 50,000 unaccompanied children crossed into the United States, cooperation between the US and Mexico to control the tide of ... -
Human rights treaty body review 2020 : towards an integrated treaty body system
(EIUC, 2017)The thesis contributes to the debate on the efficient functioning of the human rights mechanisms at the universal level that were established by different human rights treaties – the treaty bodies. The system suffers from ... -
Europe at a crossroads : the EU migration crisis, a governance test for the future of the Union
(EIUC, 2017)In the context of the world’s largest refugee crisis since World War II, the European Union (EU) has to cope with unprecedented numbers of arrivals at its external borders. In light of the weekly shipwrecks and drownings ...
