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The purpose of this paper is to study the impact the coal industry in el Cerrejón has had on the indigenous Wayúu population at the north of Colombia. The issue is addressed in through a human right lens discussing the importance of environmental and indigenous rights, which are not yet included in any legal document of the United Nations. The topic of environmental and indigenous rights is furthe

In October 2008, the Swedish government made a resolution about a testing period for advanced classes in some of the Swedish high schools. After about a year the Swedish minister of education, Jan Björklund, made a statement that he wished that the try with the so called elite classes be extended to the primary schools. The purpose of my paper it to analyse the Swedish debate about elite classes i

The minister responsible for youth policy, Nyamko Sabuni, presents in the preface of the Swedish Governments youth policy a dual picture of the living conditions for Swedish youth. On the one hand, the youth of today have greater possibilities than any previous generation, on the other hand, there are problems regarding both the economically- and healthcare situation among the youth. Many youth ar

Sexual orientation is one basis for discrimination that is not mentioned in any UN declaration or treaty, and therefor neither is the right to marry a person av the same sex. This essay is an analysis of the most important threats to this possible development to ensure the right to marry irrespective of sex in international human rights. By using contemporary research and UN treaty documents along

In February 2008 Australia´s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd offered a national apology to the indigenous peoples of the land for the pain and suffering the foreign government put them through. This historical apology is a world-known event that has raised the question of redress and reconciliation among people in counties where discrimination and exclusion has been a phenomenon against indigenous peopl

The Attic year started around midsummer, and the year was full of festivals in honor of the gods. The festivals were all performed in different ways and each festival had its particular god or goddess as its main deity. All Athenians thought that when he watched the comedies or tragedies during Lenaia or City Dionysia, the god Dionysus was also there taking pleasure of the plays, and when the Athe

The essay focuses on international law and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) from a feminist perspective. My position is that these institutions are founded on patriarchal structures that oppress women and women’s experiences in favour for men and men’s experiences. My intention is therefore to investigate how the ICTR has failed to address crimes of sexual violence and rape an

There is today an ongoing debate about Fair Trade and its consequences. The way to reach an understanding about the producers lives is important if the future will be liberated from the uneven access to the market. Today the free market is dominated by a few multinational companies and for poor producers there is no chance to compete at the same level. If industrial countries continue to exploit d

Based on an ontology that combines structuralism and constructivism, this paper aims to investigate the construction of disability in Vietnam. More specifically, it analyzes the conceptualization of disability in Vietnamese legal documents through the perspective of disability theory. The analysis is carried out by using critical discourse analysis (CDA) as developed by Norman Fairclough and exami

The purpose of this essay is to examine how the reform process of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights has handled the problem of membership, politicization and selectivity and if the reform have led to an improvement. This question is answered by comparing the Commission on Human Rights with the Human Rights Council. The conclusion of the study is that the reform has not led to any signi

The rumor of a fraudulent election during the presidential election of 2004 in Ukraine, made citizens fill up the streets of Kyiv for a three week long demonstration known as the Orange revolution. The aim was to strengthen democracy by pressuring the government, recognized as representative democracy, by democratic means which resulted in a re-run election against democratic principles. The purpo

The report presents four different alternative designs for a nursing home or an accommodation for elderly people (special housing) that are possible to use with the installation of an automatic sprinkler system. The conclusion of the performed simulations and the subsequent discussion is that under certain conditions may be possible to integrate the lounge with corridors and that automatic door cl

The purpose of this work is to address key factors that should be included when creating an effective Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR/CR) system. By analysing the connection between different systems fundamental problems in the close relationship contemporary systems have today, the problems of CSR/CR mainstreaming will be shown. It also shows how hard it can be to brake old patterns. One pro

The purpuse of this thesis is to examine what kind of relation there is between theories of class consciousness and human rights. Can human rights play a part in the class consciousness of the working class? I have chosen to compare three western marxists, G. Lukács, E.P Thompson and W. Reich and their theories of class consciousness. Their analysis of class consciousness derives from three perspe

Obesity is rising at an alarming rate. The aim of this study was to ask clients in obesity rehabilitation how they experience the role of occupational therapy in the program. A focus group was used and the obesity rehabilitation at Reykjalundur Rehabilitation was chosen as a scene for this study. It is a group program and clients are expected to view their opinions during the diverse sessions of t

This study is about child trafficking and how it is manifested in one of the poorest and least developed societies in the world, namely Niger. A child perspective, understood as the best interest of the child, serves as the starting point for this study. The purpose is to use the situation of the trafficking victims in Niger as a backdrop in order to discuss the Nigerien culture. Universalism and

The aim of this study is to examine the prospects of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) becoming a permanent variable in the way that companies and enterprises work. This is done through an analysis of altruism, self-interest and egoism in the business enterprise and its aims in the capitalistic market economy of today. Examined are both the company from the inside, with conflicts of interest a

This study examines the European Union (EU) gas supplies, particularly those coming from the Russian Federation. The increasing EU dependency upon Russian gas and recent gas disruptions make European leaders think about securitizing gas supplies issue. The aim of the thesis is to analyse consequences of securitization of the gas supplies in the EU through scrutinizing Russian foreign policy in th

Syftet med studien var att undersöka vilka strategier personer med multiple skleros använder sig av för att handskas med sjukdomen då den innebär skiftande dagsform. Sju personer deltog i studien, två män och fem kvinnor. Studien hade en kvalitativ ansats och datainsamlingen skedde genom intervju med hjälp av en egengjord intervjuguide. Efter innehållsanalys identifierades tre kategorier och ett f

Att pensionera sig innebär att man lämnar förvärvslivet. Detta medför en stor förändring i de dagliga aktiviteterna. Syftet med denna studie var att belysa den förändring i aktivitet som blev i och med pensioneringen samt hur deltagarna upplevde förändringen. I studien ingick åtta personer, sex kvinnor och två män. Som metod användes en semistrukturerad intervju baserad på Canadian Model of Occupa