Institutt for arkeologi og sosialantropologi: Recent submissions
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CSR as a Tool to Prevent Gender-Based Discrimination. A Case Study of the Textile Export Industry in India
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-22)This thesis examines the ability of CSR as a tool in the efforts to reduce gender based discrimination in the textile industry in the Delhi area in India. This research focuses on the CSR work programs undertaken by foreign entities using the case study of the company Lindex. Given that discrimination occurs daily facilitated by embedded cultural structures this research questions how, and if, CSR ... -
Extractive Industries and Human Rights Abuse – The Role of a Home State in Protecting Human Rights Abroad
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-21)When international soft law framework and host states fail to ensure effective protection of human rights from business-related harm, the involvement of a home state can be considered as the best solution. The research aims to explore the role of a developed home state in protecting human rights from violations by extractive industries abroad. The major focus of the study is the example of the UK – ... -
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 ... -
Human Rights: an alternative approach for addressing climate-induced loss and damage
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-21)Loss and damage occurs when adaptation fails, resulting in extreme and often dire consequences including loss of life, livelihood and land. Developing countries are particularly vulnerable but have done little to contribute to global green-house gas emissions. Human rights should be considered in this context because of both the extreme nature of impacts and the inequity of impact. Loss and damage ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Human Rights Online: Redefining the Concept of Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-22)The Internet is undoubtedly one of the most widespread and commonly used tools for expression. The unique characteristics of cyberspace provide individuals with endless possibilities to deliver their ideas and opinions to anyone willing to listen across borders at relatively low cost, more so than has ever been before in the history of mankind. However, as with any powerful innovation the Internet ... -
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 ... -
Human Rights and Export Credit Agencies : An Analysis of the Implementation of International Human Rights Guidelines in the European Context
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-12-14)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 ... -
Mainstreaming disability rights in development cooperation
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-05-13)It is estimated that persons with disability constitute about 15 percent of the world population and that 80 percent of PWD live in developing countries. Estimations also show that more than 90 percent of children with disabilities in developing countries do not attend school and that only three percent of all adults with disabilities in the world are literate. Implementing the right to education ... -
National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) and their role in the policy making process: a look at the impact of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in the United Kingdom in the context of diminishing power
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-09-26)The promotion of human rights is not only about raising public awareness and conducting human rights education and training. The real impact of human rights promotion can be assessed through its incorporation in public policy discourse and in policies themselves. The main objective of this study is to look at the roles that National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) can play to encourage the ... -
TOWARDS THE EMERGENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS? A discussion of the relevance of the right to a safe and healthy environment
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-05-23)This dissertation focuses on the link between human rights and the environment and the emergence of environmental human rights in the form of an individual, substantive, third generation right to a safe and healthy environment. It aims at formulating a working definition of the right to a safe and healthy environment (RSHE). To do so, I first discuss the theoretical relationship between human ... -
“NIQUE LA FRANCE”. French rappers' artistic and/or political expressions and the limits of the right to freedom of expression
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-05-23)The right to freedom of expression is defined and protected by several national and international instruments. However, it does not exist any definition universally accepted, which implies that the limits of this right are not clear. Therefore, many States adopt different laws fixing limits to freedom of expression when the existence of hate speech is proved. In France, the debate on the right to ... -
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Universal Periodic Review
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-05-23)The subject of this research is human rights related to Sexual orientation and gender identity in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Nations. The UPR is a unique peer review mechanism which reviews all UN member states in a universal manner, but also a source of politicisation along regional lines. This politicisation has a detrimental effect on the universality of the process, ... -
Redrawing the Boundaries of Membership: Labor Migrants in the UN Convention on Migrant Workers, NAFTA, and the European Union
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-05-23)Labor migrants occupy an indeterminate place in the rights regimes of nation-states. Even when engaged in documented movements, labor migrants enjoy a set of rights more limited than those of citizens. This dissertation reviews three international legal agreements, the UN Convention on Migrant Workers, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the European Union (EU) in order to understand ... -
THE ENVIRONMENT AS A SPACE FOR POWER-RELATED DISPUTES. Offshore oil exploration in New Zealand: A clash between corporate interests, governmental agenda and indigenous peoples’ rights
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-05-23)As new technologies are developed, the operations of extractive industries are increasingly affecting indigenous peoples’ lands and natural resources. Thus, the environment has become an essential element in conflicts involving companies, governments and indigenous peoples. The main aim of this dissertation is to study, mainly through discourse analysis, how these different actors construct a ... -
Differential Treatment – The Road to Equality Paved with Discrimination? Case Study of Sharia Law and Gender Inequalities in Great Britain
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-06-05)The main question underpinning this research is the challenge of managing diversity in plural societies, especially when minority practices are incompatible with Western liberal values. The dilemma is whether to tolerate and even support minority practices in the form of differential treatment, or to equalize the rights of all citizens which could consequently infringe upon minorities’ cultural and ... -
Bolsa Familia Program: a case study of Brazil’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program and its concepts of poverty
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-05-23)Poverty has been considered the worst and most widespread human rights violation in the 20th century affecting millions of people. Many authors have tried to define poverty and several theories were created to conceptualize it. Despite sharing similar aspects, these theoretical streams do not form one single coherent theory of poverty. Rather they add to a complex multidimensional perspective of ...