Browsing Master of Human Rights and Multiculturalism by Title
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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 ... -
Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Corporate Social Responsibility Strategies. A Comparative Case Study of the Oil and Gas Industry in the Russian Federation and the Kingdom of Norway
(Master thesis, 2021)Indigenous Peoples (IPs) of the North in Russia and Norway often meet struggles in their interactions with the oil and gas corporations operating on their lands. Indigenous communities are underrepresented in public discourse ... -
I belong neither, here nor there: Discussing identity among African women.
(Master thesis, 2022)This qualitative study critically examined how African women conceptualize their identity in Norway. It attempts to explore the different aspect and inteserect and the tension it brings, when trying to naviagte and or ... -
Identity, Belonging and Political Activism: A Study on Young Adults Among the Kurdish Diaspora in Norway
(Master thesis, 2023)Since the mid-20th century, Kurdish people have emigrated to the west due to political issues, oppression and wars which led to the development of a strong diasporic community outside of their native Kurdistan. This included ... -
Identity, Speech and Liberation in a Digital Landscape An Inquiry into Human Rights Discourse and Cultural Exchange in Queer Communities on Facebook
(Master thesis, 2022)This research project examines the use of human rights language in queer communities on Facebook with the objective of analysing how this language impacts those spaces discursively, especially in the context of political ... -
Immigrant women’s participation in a voluntary organization. A tool towards empowerment, recognition and social capital?
(Master thesis, 2016)In Norway, many immigrant women from Oslo lack inclusion in mainstream society and employment (NOU 2011:14, p.82). This thesis was set out to explore how these struggles can be met through participation in a voluntary ... -
The implementation of child refugees’ right to participation in Greek public Primary Schools: A qualitative study on empowering and emancipatory pedagogy
(Master thesis, 2020)This thesis explores the extent of refugee students’ participation in public Primary schools in Greece, and how their right to be heard is supported. The research question is: To what extent the strategies implemented in ... -
Indigenous Immobilities as Coloniality: Indigenous Struggles in the Artic and the Representations of Climate Change Displacement in State and Federal Policies in The United States
(Master thesis, 2024)In the face of a warming Arctic climate, Indigenous communities in the state of Alaska have been faced with a difficult choice: to remain in place or to relocate. Remaining in place means villages will have to withstand ... -
Institutional misgendering
(Master thesis, 2022)Norway has an institutionalised binary system of gender that is reproduced through gender-specific regulations. One of these regulations is the fact that there are only two legal genders. This means that only people who ...