This dissertation explores the intersecting topic of human rights and national export credit agencies (ECAs). As organisations actively seeking to promote foreign trade and investment, these organisations are in a prime position to set the bar for human rights conduct of Western corporations abroad. In order to evaluate ECAs’ human rights conduct, this thesis analyses how three European ECAs implement ...

Neoliberalism, characterised by free-market reforms, privatisation of public services and assets, prioritisation of private property rights, and limited government interference, has shaped the "neoliberal age." Critics argue that these policies have contributed to social inequality, poverty, and human rights violations. This research analyses the challenges neoliberal policies present to human rights ...

This thesis explored the human rights situation of the police in Bangladesh through the investigation of their work-life experience with respect to working conditions, salaries and other organizational factors. In addition to addressing the problem mentioned above, this study also investigated the possible consequences of the poor working environment to and outside the organization. This study ...

The isolated condition in which many indigenous peoples live in the Amazon magnifies their vulnerability to human rights violations and abuses, and challenge the states, as duty bearers, to guarantee and protect fundamental human rights for peoples who do not want to be part of state zones. This dissertation pursues to analyse how the implementation of the existing human rights legal framework and ...

This thesis analyzes how hybrid tribunals might contribute to narrowing the impunity gap through their capacity building premise. It asks what capacity building recommendations can be drawn from situations where hybrid tribunals have been established. The thesis analyzes the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), the ongoing trials in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) and ...

The aim of the research is to explore how the homeless movement in Brazil uses squatter practices as a form of expression of political values and performative enjoyment of housing rights. The point of departure is the analysis of the Workers’ Party populist government institutionalisation of the right to ...

In Bangladesh institutional response to crime against humanity of 1971 has been limited to maximalist and minimalist approach through tribunal and amnesty. Legalism and realism has dominated the debate around institutional response. Seemingly the government is unable to ensure retributive justice for all the crimes committed in 1971 and this creates scope to rethink if restorative justice can be ...

Abstract The debate around the inclusion of trans people within feminism and society in general has been gaining public attention over recent years, especially in the Colombian context with two established yet conflicting positions: trans and radical feminist movements. The discussion is characterized by its polarization, aggressivity, lack of understanding and challenges in establishing ...

This research paper explores the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, (ACTA) in relation to the human right of freedom of expression, as expressed online. The purpose of ACTA as a legally binding international document to enforce protection of Intellectual Property and copyright online is recognised and challenged by introducing a human rights discourse. The research situates the creation of ACTA ...

Abstract In the age of proclamation of universalism of human rights, the interrelation between citizenship and human rights still raises concerns. Statelessness, a condition of having no nationality, affects more than 12 million people worldwide causing a legal limbo in which those who are denied a political membership are deprived of access to basic human rights. Being in the shadow of refugee and ...