Sökning: "European Convention on Human Rights"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 31 avhandlingar innehållade orden European Convention on Human Rights.
6. Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered. Conceptual Limits and States' Positive Obligations
Sammanfattning : The support for the fight against ‘human trafficking’ has evolved rapidly and comprehensively. There has been, however, no overarching critical evaluation of the efforts to make ‘human trafficking’ a focus of international law. LÄS MER
7. Journalism Worthy of the Name: A Human Rights Perspective on Freedom within the Press
Sammanfattning : There is much tension between the conception of the press as a private enterprise subject to the logic of the market and the press as an instrument of democracy. One of the broken promises of democracy is the failure of the market in guaranteeing a vigorous political debate. LÄS MER
8. International organizations and children’s rights : Norm adoption, pressure tactics and state compliance
Sammanfattning : Since the adoption of the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), the attention given by international organizations (IOs) to children’s rights has increased. This dissertation seeks to identify what this means for the global promotion of children’s rights, by addressing three interrelated questions: 1. LÄS MER
9. Our Humanity Exposed : Predictive Modelling in a Legal Context
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines predictive modelling from the legal perspective. Predictive modelling is a technology based on applied statistics, mathematics, machine learning and artificial intelligence that uses algorithms to analyse big data collections, and identify patterns that are invisible to human beings. LÄS MER
10. Negotiating Asylum. The EU acquis, Extraterritorial Protection and the Common Market of Deflection
Sammanfattning : How are access to asylum and other forms of extraterritorial protection regulated in the European Union? Is the EU acquis in these areas in conformity with international law? What tools does international law offer to solve conflicts between them? And, finally, is law capable of bridging the foundational oppositions embedded in migration and asylum issues? This work combines the potential of legal formalism with an analytical framework drawing on political theory. It analyses the argumentative strategies used by international lawyers, exploiting the interpretative methodology of international law as well as elaborate discrimination arguments. LÄS MER