Master of Human Rights and Multiculturalism
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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 ... -
Tying the Knot, Crossing Boundaries: A Discourse Analysis of Norwegian Marriage Immigration Documents
(Master thesis, 2024)More than one million people with immigrant backgrounds live in Norway, and family immigration has made up about 36 percent of all immigration the last 30 years. The high flow of family immigrants is in public debates ... -
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 ... -
The Universal Periodic Review at the Nexus of Human Rights and Peace: A Critical Analysis of UPR’s Representation of Human Rights and its Potential in Identifying and Preventing Conflicts
(Master thesis, 2024)Amid growing global instability, escalating conflicts, and rampant human rights violations, the legitimacy and effectiveness of multilateral institutions in managing these crises are increasingly called into question. In ... -
Rights Across Borders? The Nordic Saami Convention in Finland and Norway
(Master thesis, 2024)The purpose of this study is to explore if the Nordic Saami Convention will improve the rights of the Sámi people across borders, especially in terms of self-determination, land rights and recognition of Sámi. Being the ... -
The Practice of Multicultural Education. Qualitative Research on Exploring Multicultural Education in an IB School and a Public School in Norway
(Master thesis, 2024)Like numerous other Western nations, Norway has a diverse population with individuals from different racial, ethnic, cultural, sexual, and religious backgrounds. One may not be cognizant of how difficult it is to be ... -
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 ... -
The Norwegian Pentecostal Mission and the Indigenous Guaraní in the Eastern Border Regions of Paraguay
(Master thesis, 2024)This study examines the discourse of the Norwegian Pentecostal mission regarding Indigenous peoples in Paraguay through a period ranging from 1952 to 2015. It looks at how Indigenous groups were represented through the ... -
Survival at Stake: Unraveling the Challenges of Climate Change to the Right to Life in Bangladesh
(Master thesis, 2024)Climate change is causing enormous changes to Bangladesh's environment and ways of living, which is deepening the complex connection between environmental problems and the fundamental human rights to life. This thesis ... -
A discourse on the balance of culture and LGBTQ rights in Ghana
(Master thesis, 2024)On 24th February 2021, a newly established LGBTQ community centre in Accra, the capital city of Ghana was raided and shut down by the Ghana police. This amassed a huge concern from the general public, various media platforms, ... -
Power relations and its ripple effects in humanitarian aid: A study in the post-years of the aftermath of hurricane María in Puerto Rico
(Master thesis, 2024)In 2017, a major hurricane had its landfall in Puerto Rico, a territory of United States of America. My topic is centered in hurricane María and the subsequent years of this hurricane (2017-2022). The reference is María, ... -
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 ... -
Quiet Past, Loud Present: Japan’s Unacknowledged Colonial History and its Reflection in Everyday Racism Against Koreans in Japan
(Master thesis, 2024)Racism and racial discriminations in Japan have been widely studied and, as a result, various explications as to what dynamics and power relations have been suggested. However, while racism is intricately tightly linked ... -
Societal Polarization and its Harmonization: A systematic review of same~sex marriages and Human Rights in Kenya
(Master thesis, 2024)Background: In the contemporary world, marriage and culture are intertwined. Traditional African marriage practices reflect a rich cultural diversity but may propagate inequalities against the existing human rights. In ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
"The Black Serpent": Wet'suwet'en Perspectives on the Coastal GasLink Pipeline
(Master thesis, 2023)In 2018, Coastal GasLink (CGL) began construction on a 690km pipeline, of which a large proportion would go through unceded Wet’suwet’en territory. This extractive mega-project cuts through the heart of the territory, ... -
Boxed Masculinities in a ‘Boxed’ Region: Exploring Masculine Performative Roles in the Gaza Strip
(Master thesis, 2023)Human dignity is a basic yet fundamental character of what constitutes a human, as humans deserve to be respected, treated with value, and equality. Dignity is the basis for all human rights, and thus, every violation of ... -
The role of refugee and migrant-led organizations in Greece: A critical analysis based on migrants’ and refugees’ perceptions on integration and participatory parity.
(Master thesis, 2023)In 2020, Greece adopted its third National Strategy for social integration of asylum seekers and international protection beneficiaries. Nevertheless, despite the salience that migration has received in the country due to ... -
Towards Pluriversal Approaches to Rights of Nature and the Human Right to a Healthy Environment? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Selected Judicial Decisions from Ecuador, Kenya and India
(Master thesis, 2023)Transitional Discourses, such as those on the “Rights of Nature”, have shed light on the anthropocentric framing of the Right to a Healthy Environment and the universalising effect of “human rights” which dominates patterns ...
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