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Solitary Confinement as a Human Rights Concern: A Case study of Burma’s Political Prisoners.
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-11-11)
Solitary confinement has repeatedly been found to be detrimental to mental health, causing a range of symptoms, including anxiousness, depression, memory loss and paranoia in a significant amount of prisoners. This sparked a wider, ongoing debate on whether solitary confinement can amount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. The research that informed this debate however ...
HUMAN RIGHTS IN TRANSNATIONAL INVESTMENT POLICY AND PRACTICE. A case study of Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund and the Marlin mine
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-11-01)
Conflict between extractive industries and indigenous peoples has become commonplace. What is novel in the case of the Marlin mine is activists appealing to a corporate shareholder in a third country -- Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund. I attribute, not exhaustively, the phenomenon to factors in global political economy: the amoral character of the corporation, the impact of extractive industries on ...
Assessing the effects of aid donor conditions on human rights in Palestine. What are the opportunities for achieving a more rights-based aid system?
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-11-01)
In The Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) the extreme dependency on aid which pours in in vast quantities renders a critical discussion of the aid model in this region, with respect to upholding human rights, essential. Firstly, this study seeks to look at the impact of international donor aid, specifically the donor conditions imposed with aid, on the human rights of aid recipients in the OPT. ...
The Ramifications of the ICTY and the ICJ in Bosnia-Herzegovina Post-Conflict: Understanding the relationship between Justice and Reconciliation
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-22)
The ability to foster reconciliation while addressing human rights can be achieved through the ICTY and the ICJ stemming from their use of providing accountability on individual level to a state level, admissions of guilt, removal of war criminals from society, outreach program and establishing historical and legal truths. Within the state of BiH, for many citizens there exists the belief that a ...
If Housing is a Right, Squatting is a Duty: Social movements against selective implementation of Human Rights
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-29)
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 ...
MILITARY CHILD DETENTION IN THE WEST BANK: An Israeli politics-driven policy aimed at destroying the will of a generation
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-11-03)
My research introduces the issue of the Israeli military detention policies towards Palestinian children in the West Bank (WB) and illustrates how these violate international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL), despite their legally binding nature and despite Israel’s obligation to protect Palestinian civilians as protected persons under occupation. My research shows ...
Theatre and the Right to have Rights. Creative intercultural encounter between Israelis and Palestinians in Israel promoting principles of peace and Human Rights in the context of reconciliation of intractable conflict
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-22)
There are many rather idealistic writings upon the effects that art can have on conflict societies and the role that art can play in the promotion of Human Rights. In the context of intractable conflict with a discourse of dehumanisation, it becomes particularly important to reemphasise everyone’s right to have rights and general related principles of equality, that are central to both Human Rights ...
REPRODUCING VIOLENCE THROUGH RECONSTRUCTING THE HYMEN? Gender-Based Violence Against Women in Lebanon
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-21)
Virginity in Lebanon is still a controversial and sensitive issue. Women’s value and honour is linked to the “hymen mystique”, which they fear losing before marriage. Regardless of the reasons for virginity loss, a non-virgin woman is deemed a sinner according to the Lebanese patriarchal social standards. With the existence of three-dimensional function of the hymen: honourable, social and physiological, ...
Women’s Rights in Kosovo: Cultural and Religious Barriers
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-22)
Women’s Rights have often been a subject of the debate between universal rights versus cultural relativism. In Kosovo women’s rights have gone through drastic changes. After the NATO intervention in 1999, UN established international bodies to temporary govern the territory of Kosovo. UNMIK’s mission contributed massively in establishing frameworks to support, protect and empower women. In this ...
Hybrid Tribunals as Capacity Building: Narrowing the Impunity Gap?
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-22)
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 ...