Browsing by Subject "human rights"
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A Comparative Sociological Investigation of the Conceptions and Perceptions of Mental Health and Illness in Arica, Chile and Rome, Italy
(2013-05-08)This comparative study aimed to discover the principal factors that influence the perceptions of citizens in Arica, Chile and Rome, Italy toward mental illness. Specifically, the study aimed to investigate how these perceptions ... -
A Dialogical Approach to Human Rights: Institutions, Culture and Legitimacy
(2009)In this study I address the moral and cultural disagreement and conflict regarding the interpretation of human rights norms that threatens the legitimacy of the human rights enterprise. Such disagreements present an opportunity ... -
Anxious Citizenship: Insecurity, Apocalypse and War Memories in Peru's Andes
(2007-05-10)The war between the Peruvian state and the Maoist Shining Path rebels began in the Department of Ayacucho, an area with a majority of indigenous Quechua- speaking peasant villages. After twenty years of violence ... -
Crack-Whores and Pretty Woman: The Media Framing of Sex Workers
(2018-12-05)International human rights organizations such as the World Health Organization, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, and Amnesty International have advised nations to decriminalize sex work in order to protect ... -
Global Health: A Normative Analysis of Intellectual Property Rights and Global Distributive Justice
(2007-05-07)In the past several years, the impact of intellectual property rights (IPRs) on access to medicines and medical technologies has come under increased scrutiny. Motivating this are highly publicized cases where IPRs appear ... -
Human Rights and the Sovereign State: An Examination of the Compatibility of State Sovereignty with the Humanitarian Necessities of a Global World
(2013-05-02)This thesis looks at the problem of sustaining human rights in a world of sovereign states. What does it mean for the global human rights movement that the predominant form of political organization in the world is the individual ... -
Post-transitional Justice in Spain: Passing the Historical Memory Law
(2014-01-14)This honors thesis traces the origin of the post-transitional justice efforts by the Spanish government to recognize and offer reparations for the human rights crimes committed during the Spanish Civil War and subsequent ... -
The Role of Syrian Refugees in The Sharing Economy and Technology Sector in Germany: A Neoliberal Approach to Integration and Empowerment
(2016-04-25)From January through December of 2015, Germany accepted nearly one million refugees. Though arriving with diverse skillsets and past experiences, approximately half of these refugees share one thing in common: they are Syrian. ... -
The ‘Best Interest of the Child’: Exploring the International Human Rights Norm as an Applied Standard in Residential Care Centers in New Delhi, India
(2019)Background: Although used previously as a function of the judiciary primarily in custody battles, the best interest of the child because an international human rights standard with the 1989 adoption of the United Nations ... -
U.S.-Turkish Relations: Re-situating the “Kurdish Question”
(2016-04-19)Historically many American policymakers have not prioritized the status of Turkey’s Kurds in bilateral relations, despite the significant political, cultural, and security implications of the “Kurdish Question”. The events ...
