Sökning: "Amnesty"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Amnesty.
1. Amnesty in Translation : Ideas, Interests and Organizational Change
Sammanfattning : Swedish Amnesty was founded in 1964 for the purpose of working for the release of prisoners of conscience. Forty years later the organization has expanded its realm of activity to include ideas such as women’s rights, homosexuals’ rights and corporate responsibility for human rights. LÄS MER
2. Dissertatio politica, de amnestia, quam, ... præside ... Johanne Hermansson ... publico bonorum examini modeste submittit ... Johannes B. Östman, Westro-gothus. In auditorio Gust. maj. ad d. 3. Junii. an. MDCCXXXV, horis ante meridiem solitis
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3. Challenging Rightlessness : On Irregular Migrants and the Contestation of Welfare State Demarcation in Sweden
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the political struggles that followed after the appearance of irregular migrants in Sweden. The analysis starts from the assumption that the group’s precarious circumstances of living disrupted the understanding of Sweden as an inclusive society and shed light on the limits of the welfare state’s inclusionary ambitions. LÄS MER
4. Back to the Motherland : Repatriation and Latvian Émigrés 1955-1958
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about a remarkable experience lived through by Latvian émigrés in the mid-1950s. They were the targets of a Soviet repatriation campaign, operated by the KGB, which not only envisioned their repatriation to the Soviet Latvian homeland, but also anticipated the destruction of their émigré society as they knew it. LÄS MER
5. Information, Markets and Conflict : Essays on Development and Political Economics
Sammanfattning : The thesis consists of four essays.The first essay, “The Strategic Determinants of U.S. Human Rights Reporting: Evidence from the Cold War”, uses a country-level panel dataset to test the hypothesis that the United States biases its human rights reports of countries based on the strategic value of these countries. LÄS MER