Browsing Master of Human Rights and Multiculturalism by Title
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Et amerikansk imperativ
(Master thesis, 2022)Masteroppgaven går ut på å definere et moderne amerikansk imperativ, og hvordan dette introduserer nye fremdstidsutfordringer til humanitær folkerett og internasjonal menneskerettighetslov ved bruk av kampdroner i ... -
Fast Fashion, Performativity, & Corporate Social Responsibility: Analyzing SHEIN’s Statements on Initiatives against Labour Exploitation in their Supply Chains
(Master thesis, 2024)In recent years, there has been an increased amount of attention to issues related to the garment sector along with the rise of fast fashion. With an increased demand for clothes, it begs the question: how is this impacting ... -
FGM in Italy: healthcare professionals as agents of change? A study ten years after the adoption of law 7/2006 on targeted training as dialogical tool
(Master thesis, 2017)Due to migration fluxes, modern societies are increasingly more characterized by a plurality of cultural groups, each one with its specific behavioral norms and cultural practices. Particularly, "female genital mutilation" ... -
Framing Statelessness and Repatriation: A Discourse Analysis of Rohingya Refugees in Newspaper Media
(Master thesis, 2024)The Rohingya crisis is a complex and ongoing humanitarian issue primarily centred in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. The Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority, have faced decades of systemic discrimination, violence, and statelessness, ... -
Gender based exclusion of Bangladeshi transgender “Hijra” community from job sector
(Master thesis, 2024)In Bangladesh, the Hijra is a large community of third gender people, mostly consisting of male-to-female transgender persons as well as eunuchs or men who had their genitals removed. These Hijras are often a time excluded ... -
Gender Disparity in Leadership and Decision-Making Positions through Workplace Context in Bhutan
(Master thesis, 2022)Abstract Women around the world are disproportionately underrepresented in leadership positions and in positions where decisions are made. In Bhutan, gender inequality and discrimination are often taken for granted with ... -
Gender equality in educational and occupational choices in Egypt? A study of cultural and societal constraints on women's recruitment and practicing in judicial work.
(Master thesis, 2021)After two uprisings in less than three years, fueled with chants of women demanding their rights to freedom, dignity, justice, and equality, Women are still struggling to make inroads into an occupation that has historically ... -
Give them voice, don’t speak for them Women’s right on decision-making: Study case of minority women in Kosovo
(Master thesis, 2017)Researchers, organization, and activists are advocating increasingly for the political representation of women and minority groups. However, few are considering the impact of laws and policies on minority women, or generally ... -
Hegemony and Reconciling Indigenous-State Relations A discourse analysis of truth commission debates in Australia and Norway
(Master thesis, 2018)This study emerges from the context of requests for truth commissions by indigenous populations in Australia and Norway between 2016-2017. In both western liberal democracies, these requests reflected a need felt to reconcile ... -
Herstories of War Experience: An Analysis of Selected War-narratives of Women in Post-war Sri Lanka for the Human Rights Discourse
(Master thesis, 2023)Her-stories or women’s stories of the war connote historical notes and experiences told from a feminine perspective related to the war that construct, preserve, and present the memory and atrocities of war as an instrument ... -
History education and reconciliation in post war societies. A narrative analysis of Serbian and Kosovan history textbooks for students in primary education
(Master thesis, 2022)Since the civil war in Yugoslavia in the 1990s there has been a conflicting relationship between Serbia and Kosovo. Lack of reconciliation is, according to the UN's Sustainable Development Goal 16, "Peace, justice and ... -
How do Mexican women in Scandinavia use Cultural and Economic Capital to negotiate their transnational identities as immigrants or expats?
(Master thesis, 2022)The international growing Mexican female migration to Norway and Sweden has given rise to a different perspective to the negotiation of transnational identities. The dominant discourse on female immigrants often has no ... -
How does COVID-19 effect Afghan migrant workers’ rights in Iran?
(Master thesis, 2021)Afghanistan has endured over 40 years of conflict, resulting in a complex humanitarian crisis and the protracted displacement of its population. Millions of Afghans fled to neighboring Iran and Pakistan, some as refugees ... -
How the Indian Government are using “The Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order, 2019” to suppress the right to self-determination of the citizens of Kashmir?
(Master thesis, 2022)The principle of self-determination is one of the significant principles in international law and order that is recognized in various treaties and agreements. It is noted that all individuals are entitled to this right ... -
Human Displacement in Times of Climate Change
(Master thesis, 2021)Today, more and more people are forced to flee from their homes as a result of global warming. Migration scholars, environmentalists and international institutions, have all expressed concern over the increasing social ... -
Human Rights and Community-based Approaches to Understanding the Disaster Risk Reduction Framework in Georgia: A Case Study of the 2023 Shovi Landslide
(Master thesis, 2024)This research focuses on the importance of governments developing stronger and more integrated disaster risk reduction strategies as climate-related disasters become more frequent and damaging for our societies. To make ... -
Human Rights and Gender Justice in Iran: Local Understandings of Women’s Rights and Empowerment through Community Led Projects
(Master thesis, 2022)This study aimed to explore a different context in examining human rights and gender justice in Iran. With this purpose women’s led community projects had been selected in three different regions: Kerman, Kurdistan, and ... -
Human Rights Critique and the Global South: A Hermeneutical Reading of Makau Mutua and Boaventura de Sousa Santos
(Master thesis, 2023)The human rights project has reached an epistemological, legal, and moral crossroad. The multidimensionality of this stalemate invites for critical conversation(s) on the credibility, authority, and moral legitimacy of ... -
Human rights education and multiculturalism in a lower secondary school: students’ perspectives
(Master thesis, 2021)Abstract This thesis examines students’ perceptions of human rights and multiculturalism. It is a small-scale, qualitative study conducted in an urban secondary school in South-East Norway with a diverse cultural and ... -
Human Rights Education in Kurdistan–Iraq: a means towards gender equality?
(Master thesis, 2013)This thesis examines education professionals’ perceptions of the potential role of Human Rights Education (HRE) as a means towards gender equality in Iraqi Kurdistan. HRE is understood as a cosmopolitan project. The key ...