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In 2003, partly due to intense protests from the All Indian Democratic Women’s Association, the Indian state prohibited a commercial for skin lightening cream from continuing being aired on Indian television. The commercial indirectly suggests that a girl can neither get a well paid job, nor a husband to provide for her, due to her dark skin tone. Ashok Venkatramani, spokesman for the company prod

Syfte och frågeställning: Uppsatsen syftar till att problematisera bilden som ges i medierna av manliga ätstörningar samt att öka förståelsen för mediernas betydelse när det gäller att erbjuda medborgarna information om en specifik hälsoproblematik. De två huvudfrågorna för uppsatsen är följande: Hur stor andel av artiklarna om ätstörningar handlar om män respektive kvinnor? Hur gestaltas mäns äts

I studien undersöktes hur upplevelsen av faktorerna arbetstillfredsställelse, engagemang, prestationsbaserad självkänsla -PBS samt interaktionen mellan arbete och privatliv skiljer sig mellan flextid- respektive dagtidsanställning. Sambandet mellan flextidsuttag och ovannämnda faktorer undersöktes också. Deltagarna i enkäten (N = 82, 31 flextid, 46 dagtid och 5 skiftanställda), besvarade en enkät

A particular concern of this paper is to observe the evolvement of such huge economy in transition as Russia. Russia’s aspiration to catch-up with economic development of Western countries makes her to apply similar strategies copying best practices. With help of cluster building Russian authorities aim at creation of innovation economy and distancing from dependency on natural resources. By looki

This thesis uses a Just war theory framework to do an argument analysis of the Obama administrations official legal justification of targeted killings and the use of drones as lawful state practise. The conduct of targeted killings using drones has increased since Barack Obama became president and has become a tool that is argued to effectively diminish the strength of AL-Qaida and other alleged t

The number of Muslim people has increased a lot since the 90s in Europe. In a continent were the majority of the population are Christians can problems and dissonances between the people begin. New challenges arise when people with different religion, tradition and culture take up residence in the same society. One debate that has been discussed recently is the wearing of burqa and niqab in public

The purpose of this thesis is to identify values and motive of ethnic diversity. By interwieving people responsible for employment on TeliaSoneras service department the thesis concludes that values and motives of ethnic diversity is motivated by human rights and profits. The thesis shows that when employers value ethnic diversity by a lucrative rationality the practice of diversity management ten

Användandet av sociala medier ökar, allt fler använder sociala nätverktyg såsom facebook, Twitter och bloggar. Det har för många blivit en del av vardagen. Det har således blivit något vi gör dagligen - en del av vår vardagskultur. Ämnet klagomålshantering i sociala medier är av stort intresse eftersom det är ett relativt nytt fenomen. Företag har nyligen börjat bemöta klagomål som sker via social

Human Rights and Islam is a subject which has been of great interest in many circles. The debate on whether Islam and the UN definition on Human Rights are compatible has raised many voices and concerns, the debate has mainly focused on the unsuitability of Sharia and it’s undermining of minorities. The purpose of this essay is to look at the relationship between Islam and Human Rights, mainly thr

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are discriminated against all over the world on a regular basis today. To love or be sexually attracted to someone of the same sex and act upon it is a legal offence in several countries and in a few countries it is considered to be such an offense that it is punishable by death. The standards on how to treat sexual minorities differ greatly bet

Based on a Minor Field Study conducted in Kenya 2009, this thesis discusses the relationship between identity and recognition regarding indigenous peoples, focusing on the Endorois community located in the Rift Valley province in Kenya. Viewed from a social and legal perspective, elements of the Endorois community’s identity and their relationship to the Kenyan state and society are analyzed. The

The contemporary labour practices within the readymade garment industry in Bangladesh represent sweatshop-related working conditions. The garment workers suffer from appalling working conditions that have not existed in the global North for a couple of hundred years. The export of garments is Bangladesh’s main source of income. In order to ensure that the country remains competitive in the global

The purpose of this essay is to examine how many men and young boys that live under honor influenced circumstances in Sweden has the opportunity to enjoy their basic human rights. The analysis focus on the different factors that influence these boys lives, these are honor related norms and values, the Swedish society and the Swedish government. These factors are viewed at from a theory of masculin

Syftet med denna studie är att analysera hur man inom Försvarsmakten ser på kommunikationens roll i organisationen. För att bättre kunna förstå och förklara kommunikationens roll vid förändringar ville jag dessutom kartlägga förutsättningarna för kommunikationsprocesserna i organisationen. Arbetet med Försvarsmaktens kommunikation kring värdegrunden intresserade mig särskilt eftersom organisations

I denna uppsats beskriver jag fenomentet prodemokratisk intervention. Begreppet är en utveckling av humanitära interventioner och gör gällande att man intervenerar med demokratiska förtecken i auktoritära stater. Min frågeställning syftar till att söka svar på hur man legitimerar prodemokratiska interventioner. Detta gör jag genom att undersöka demokratibegreppet och den internationella folkrätten

De senaste åren har det skett en ökning i antalet så kallade vitamindrycker som finns i handeln. Vitamin Well, Glacéau Vitaminwater och Vitamino är varumärkena som i tur och ordning gått in på marknaden och rönt kommersiella framgångar i dryckessegmentet. Genom semiotisk innehållsanalys av vitamindryckernas reklam och marknadsföring har vi velat avtäcka den mytologiska underbyggnad som finns i der

The purpose of this dissertation is to study how hierarchies among teenage girls are constructed, what criteria determine them and who decide on the criteria. Inspired by Connells (2005) theory of masculinity are hierarchies of femininity examined. With the concepts of power and hegemony, I study relationships within a gender category to examine how its members rank themselves and who decides what

Communications where the location and environment limits the options is an issue for Samon AB. Some of their gasdetectors work in a marine environment where they are surrounded by steel walls. These steel walls act like a Faraday cage and make radio communication ineffective. Other gasdetectors are retrofitted in hotels when the demand for air-conditioning increases. With retrofitting comes the is

Rwanda har den högsta andelen kvinnliga parlamentariker i världen. 2008 antogs en ny lag om genusbaserat våld in Rwandas parlament. Den här kandidatuppsatsen undersöker hur kvinnor i Rwanda upplever effekterna av lagen i relation till deras handlingsutrymme och politiska självbestämmande, empowerment. En fältstudie genomfördes under april- maj 2010 med syfte att samla material om kvinnors erfarenhRwanda has the highest representation of female parliamentarians in the world. In 2008, a law against gender based violence passed the floor in the Rwandan government. This bachelor’s thesis examines how women in Rwanda experience the effects of this law in terms of their own perceived acting space(s) and empowerment. A minor field study was carried out in Rwanda April-May 2010 in order to gather

Railway expansion is usually associated with containing and supporting economic growth. This particular research approaches railways from the angle of technological potential. It explores whether railways can drive China towards technology-led growth, and if so, the way in which this process occurs. The study uses a theoretical framework of complementarities adjusting it to the qualitative analysi