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Sexual violence : Sexual violence against women in Iran compred with International Human Rights Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Rape, forced marriage, forced pregnancy; sexual slavery, forced prostitution and forced sterilization are taken as sexual crimes by the world community. Besides that the specific customs and traditions, as well as superstitious ...
The Politics of Human Rights and Global Justice : Rawls and Habermas on the Prevention of Gross Violations of Human Rights Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
The thesis compares the ideas of two prominent figures in contemporary political philosophy, John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas, about humanitarian intervention and initiatives to preempt such moves. Indeed this thesis asks ...
Implementing Universal Education as Human Right and as a Millennium Development Goal: Diverging or Converging Approaches? Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
The present thesis was directed to understand the conceptual and operational implications of approaching the objective of universal education as a human right and as a MDG in the context of development activities. The two ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
Transitional justice (TJ) is an ever-growing field, relevant all over the world. Indonesia has undergone a profound transition to democracy since the fall of Soeharto in 1998. However, separatist challenges have continuously ...
Not "Just" A Transition Ensuring international human rights and labour standards for workers in transitions to low carbon societies Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Every year developing countries lose billions of dollars through tax evasion and tax avoidance by TNCs, which are some of the largest tax payers in the world. A great portion of developing countries’ already scarce revenues ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)
The Environmental Bill of Rights (EBR) adopted in 1994 by the province of Ontario, Canada empowers members of the public with participatory rights in environmental decision-making. This thesis evaluates the de facto ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
The Chinese hukou system has been established since 1950s with the purpose of migration control and resource distribution. The agricultural hukou holding residents’ rights to freedom of movement are strictly limited. The ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
The present study focuses on Ethiopia, a country despite facing daunting development challenges, is said to have sustained a notable push towards realizing universal primary education. The study was, therefore, made with ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
This paper explores a tension in deliberative democratic theory. The tension consists in that deliberative opinion-formation ideally aims to reach consensus, while a consensus, once established, will likely impede the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)
Seeking to explain the emergence of anti-trafficking initiatives, scholars have explored two sets of ideas—national security and gender equality—thought to shape policy. In this study, we examine whether such ideational ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)
Recently, theorists have sought to justify transnational democracy by means of the all-affected principle, which claims that people have a right to participate in political decision-making that affects them. I argue that ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
The concept of authority has become increasingly palatable to scholars in law, political science and philosophy when describing, explaining and assessing global governance. While many now seem to agree that applying authority ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
In this chapter, I draw on recent scholarship on the alleged legitimacy deficits in global governance institutions, seeking to engage the notions of legitimacy this literature suggests with the intriguing case of international ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Despite the flourishing of judicialisation of rights across the world, scepticism is not in short supply. Critiques range from concerns over the democratic legitimacy and institutional competence of courts to the effectiveness ...
Addressing the Practice of Child Marriage through Universal Human Rights: The Case of Ethiopia Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
This chapter focuses on the practice of holding states and individuals responsible for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, referred to generally as ‘mass atrocity crimes’. The International Court of Justice ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
This study deals with the role of two Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) to eliminate the child labor from garment industry Bangladesh and enroll those into schooling program. The first MoU signed in 1995 and the second ...
Assessing the impact of the UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the course of addressing indigenous women's rights Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Advancing Direct Corporate Accountability in International Human Rights Law: The Role of State-Owned Enterprises Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Resorting to the immensely State-centric international legal system to regulate corporate human rights abuses is often viewed as inadequate. Among many proposals aiming at filling the international regulatory gaps, imposing ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Though race as a concept is academically discredited, it still fuels conflict around the world. Racial tension and distrust exist in every society, including Norway and South Africa, two very different countries. In South ...
The Relationship between Undocumented Migrants and a Local Community in Border Areas in Yunnan Province and its Function as the Informal Safety Net Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
The following thesis examines the intercultural bilingual education (IBE) model in public primary schools in Ecuador. I review its historical development and I assess the Right to Intercultural Bilingual Education (RtIBE) ...
Human Right to Water in Palestine – Negotiating the Distribution of an Indispensable Resource in an Intractable Conflict Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
In a thriving democracy, there will always be a tension between the public’s need and desire for safety and security and the fundamental precondition for democracy itself: the State’s respect for the citizens’ civil and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
In this study, seven Colombian civil society organisations (CSOs) are interviewed about their work in relation to the peace talks between the Colombian government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
This chapter focuses on the motivations and the criminal process’ dynamics that might lie at the root of infringements by Defense lawyers of the formal procedural rules and regulations of international criminal courts and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
In 2010, a landslide in Bududa, Eastern Uganda, killed about 350 people and nearly 1000 affected households were resettled in Kiryandongo, Western Uganda. A cross-sectional survey assessed household food insecurity and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
Our analysis distinguishes between the legal framework and jurisprudence currently governing the scope of immunity for Defence counsel and their teams representing alleged 175 perpetrators of serious international crimes ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Though a perennial problem in postcolonial Kenya, extrajudicial executions (EJE) show few signs of ending and in recent years are even accelerating amongst young men in informal settlements. Avenues for legal, institutional ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This article offers an analysis of the child’s right to be heard under Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its application in Norway, through a case study of bullying. The methodology combines a ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / SubmittedVersion, 2015)
Promoting Peace Through International Law edited by Cecilia Marcela Bailliet and Kjetil Mujezinovic Larsen, 2015, reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198722731.001.0001
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
The Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement for Burundi ( Arusha Agreement ) was signed in 2000 to bring an end to an ethnically motivated civil war and promote national reconciliation and transitional justice. Protocol ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
The contemporary advancement of proactive criminal law as an imperative instrument in the global fight against terrorism, has enabled an expansion in the Scope and application of pre-emptive surveillance measures on low ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This paper examines the current system regulating state and corporate behavior with regards to human rights. As such it contributes to the debate on a global treaty on business and human rights through an interdisciplinary, ...
China s Nomadic Settlement Policy and the Cultural Rights of Nomadic Pastoralists: A Case Study of the Kazakh Nomads in Xinjiang Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Complementarity: A gap between theory and practice? ICC`s contribution to domestic proceedings in Uganda Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Safe havens or recruitment pools? The relationship between child soldier recruitment and areas of displacement. Vulnerability, agency and rebel motivations. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
"This paper aims to examine the issue of child soldier recruitment in light of displacement, asking whether or not children living in areas of displacement constitutes a particularly vulnerable group towards being recruited ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This study examines the effect that legislation on insult and defamation has on media practitioners and artists in Zimbabwe. The results of the study are based on analysis of data gathered through interviews with Zimbabwean ...
Addressing the Right to Self-Determination: The Okinawans’ Claims from the Group-Based Rights Perspective Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This paper discusses the Japanese society from the group-based rights perspective. International human rights law provides the rights mostly in an individualistic form. But there is also a development of the international ...
Right of Children with Disabilities to Primary Education in Uganda: A Case study of Kabale District.
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Despite the introduction of Universal Primary Education (UPE) program in Uganda in 1997, children with disabilities (CWDs) have continued to fail to attain primary education. Therefore, this study looked at the right of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Tanzania’s natural resources are rich and diverse. Yet, the extractive industries, that work to remove these resources, are riddled with corruption, non-transparency, and limited accountability and governance. This thesis ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
2015 saw the arrival of over one million asylum seekers in the EU, sparking what is now known as the European refugee crisis. The majority of those coming into the EU were doing so by boat from Turkey to Greece and then ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
In 2013, persons with disabilities attained initial legal protection against hate crime in Norway. However, no cases of disability hate crime have been registered by the Norwegian justice system to date. This stands in ...
Human Rights Obligations of Transnational Corporations. Whether current international law provides for direct corporate human rights obligations? Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This study reveals a horizontal conflict in Indonesian society involving violation of the rights of a religious minority group and studies the state s response to the conflict. The case to be analyzed in this study is the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Concerns over ineffective juvenile justice policies are not exclusive to Vietnam. The Vietnamese context may however be reasonably chosen to indicate to what extent children`s human rights are implemented in a juvenile ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Determination of a legal status of the mandatory Islamic dress code policy in Chechnya and evaluation of its legitimacy with reference to the domestic legislation of the Russian Federation
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
In 2014, the Norwegian Government voted in favour of prohibiting the practice of immigration detention of asylum-seeking children. Paradoxically, 2014 was also the year when 330 asylum-seeking children were detained at ...
IHL and IHRL in the West Bank: Can adding human rights to the framework entail negative legal consequences for the occupied people? Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Research report / Forskningsrapport / PublishedVersion, 2016)
Den övergripande fråga som ställs i rapporten är: hur kan universitet och högskolor upprätthålla kvalitet i utbildningen? Undersökningen bärs upp av tre delar där vi studerar 1) om högskolepedagogiska kurser stärker lärare ...
Struggle for Labor Rights in the Bangladeshi Garment Industry: Focus on the Freedom of Association Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2004)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
People's Republic of China is far from becoming a human rights regime that effectively protects linguistic minorities. This study analyzes the question of protection of linguistic minorities in universities from two angles: ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This research projects investigates the construction of human dignity in the lived experience of poor, Roma women in Oslo, Norway. It seeks to contribute to a more inclusive, less abstract interpretation of human dignity, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
This thesis investigates the relationship between corruption in the Russian justice system and human rights violations. The hypothesis is that such corruption increases human rights abuses. Both law enforcement and the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
In my thesis, I will examine the law and practice of the right to education of persons belonging to the Yi minority in Zhaojue by obligations of Chinese governments under international human rights law. My focus is on the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2006)
Military, Transitioning Democracy and Rights: The Case of Indonesia Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Indonesia embarks on transitioning period in 1998 after 32 years under authoritarian regime led by General Suharto. Since then the country has seen rapid changes particularly in relation to the Indonesian military (TNI). ...
ENSURING THE RIGHTS OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS IN VIETNAM’S JUVENILE JUSTICE: Towards better compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
During the autumn of 2015, the number of asylum-seekers arriving in Norway tripled as compared to the previous years, this situation was part of what has become known as the refugee crisis. During this period, the Norwegian ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This thesis is intended to focus on the employment discrimination against women in China. Firstly, the thesis will set forth the research background, including the research questions, literature review, theoretical ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Background
Despite the instruments on the right to adequate food adopted by the United Nations, there exists limited information on how this right is perceived. Following a major 2010 landslide disaster in ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Sexual violence is a common human rights violation among campus students. Students within the university, faculty committees, and members of staff are not only involved in sexual violence, but also in addressing its causes. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
The United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies are a central pillar of the international human rights protection system, essential to the independent, quasi-judicial monitoring of state parties’ respect for and implementation ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
How can we assess the epistemic quality of democratic decision-making? Sceptics doubt such assessments are possible, as they must rely on controversial substantive standards of truth and rightness. Challenging that scepticism, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The primary objective of this Master’s thesis has been the examination of both the Greek asylum system and the wider European framework in the light of the EU-Turkey Statement and its compatibility with international law. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Determining positive obligations under the ECHR framework Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Robert Pirsig wrote Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, “the biggest-selling philosophy book ever,” yet has not been taken seriously by academia. This thesis expands the connection he sketched between human rights ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)