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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 77 avhandlingar innehållade ordet ngos.
1. Demanding Values : Participation, empowerment, and NGOs in Bangladesh
Sammanfattning : The concepts participation and empowerment are frequently used in development projects in the third world. The meaning given to the concepts today signal a normative orientation, marking an alternative, people-centred approach to development. When used in development projects, the concepts demand detailed descriptions. LÄS MER
2. Drug Discourses in Contemporary Russia : A Study of the National Press, NGOs and the Government
Sammanfattning : In Western Europe and the United States drugs have, since the 1960s, been one of the most discussed social problems. However, in the Soviet Union it was not until perestroika in the mid-1980s that a public debate on this issue began. LÄS MER
3. From Slaves to Princes : The role of NGOs in the construction of race and ethnicity in Salvador, Brazil
Sammanfattning : Global forms and changes affect all spheres of human life-worlds; not least how we interpret and create systems of meaning in our respective habitats. A merging of global and local reflections and actions often causes ideological transformations and discursive shifts. LÄS MER
4. Rural Women in Bangladesh : The Legal Status of Women and the Relationship between NGOs and Religious Groups
Sammanfattning : Bangladesh is one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. In spite of political turmoil, frequent natural disasters and widespread corruption it has, in less than four decades after its birth as an independent state, gained visible success in human development - especially the education of women and girls, family planning and health, and microcredit to the poor. LÄS MER
5. NGOs as child rights implementers in India : How NGO workers negotiate human rights responsibility in 'partnership' with a neoliberal and restrictive state
Sammanfattning : Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) increasingly enter into “partnerships” with states to implement human rights, a phenomenon that has been studied both as a necessary inclusion of civil society in human rights practice, and as a slippery slope towards a neoliberal state retreat. What remains to be studied is how this partnership practice shapes the concepts of human rights and their duty bearers. LÄS MER