The rich Mayan weaving tradition in Guatemala has survived even though the indigenous population has been subject to centuries of hardship and oppression. After conducting a field study and scrutinising the commercialisation process of the traditional designs in five different producer cooperatives of which, for the purpose of this thesis, some are characterised as weaving cooperatives and others

Since the 'Danish bottles case', where the protection of the environment was recognized as a mandatory requirement that could derogate from the free movement of goods, the ECJ has taken over an interesting role to map the boundaries of its application. The rank of Community policy and the need of integration explicitly envisaged in the EC, have had a major influence in its judicial interpr

International human rights law does not exist in a vacuum. It owes its basis in public international law and presupposes the existence of States and State law. Since the end of World War II, gigantic steps have been taken, both on national and international level, to promote the development of friendly relations between people and peoples and to facilitate recognition of equal and inalienable righ

This work called: ''Enforcement of International Law in Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict'' discusses problems of branches of international law, such as International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law, in regard to Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict situation and draws the picture of reasons why enforcement of these branches of international law failed in the aforementioned conflict.

As the overall United Nations (UN) machinery embarks on its continuous road of reformation, more particularly as it relates to reforming its Human Rights System, this Thesis sets out to critically examine the effect of this process on one aspect of the latter System: international minority rights. And even more specifically in this regard, the primary focus is on the now-abolished (or as some say

The purpose of this work was to scrutinize and investigate how collective marks can help protect works of Guatemalan artisans' small businesses in the local and international market by promoting them as an organization-association or cooperative. The first chapter contains the introduction of this paper. It is composed by the background of the work, the objective, delimitations, method and out

Albania has started its way to reform the newly established democratic system, since the early 90's. The legal system was one between others to be modified in compliance with the international standards set up in the international instruments. Among the reforms, the most important one was the establishment of the human rights standards, especially concerning minority rights, which is the focus

Russia is a country in transition towards democracy. After a long period of economical and political suppression, people have a chance to participate in society's life, to affect the ruling government and to express their views more freely. However, in order for the democratic transition to continue, it is not enough to merely have a chance to participate and be active&semic there should b

Being a very important part of property per se, intellectual property is performing the duty of securing social development by providing incentives for inventors to create and thus benefit society. It is of no doubt this property should be protected. However, this protection should not encroach upon other rights, such as human rights, in particular the right to adequate food&semic thus, intell

As stated in Article 26 of ICCPR, ''all persons are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to the equal protection of the law.'' The pursuit of equality and non-discrimination has been widely accepted not only as a formal principle but also binding substantive human rights. In 2003, the first Global Report by ILO on discrimination, Time for equality at wor

The 90's shook up seriously the securities industry and pointed the way for the creation of an integrated European securities market. The Institutions have nevertheless been very slow in reacting to the unleashed forces and it was only at the end of the decade with the effective introduction of the Euro that Giovannini Group gave first warnings. The European market was characterised by a juxta

Though the practice of genocide traces its roots back to the atrocities committed in the ancient times, however, the international community has shown its reluctance to acknowledge the existence of that horrific crime. The impunity for the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Young Turks of Ottoman Empire in 1915 had a significant impact on Adolf Hitler who referred to the Ottoman killings of Arme

I följande studie undersöktes hur valpreferensen och beslutsfattandeprocessen påverkas av positivt eller negativt framad information vid ett beslut om vaccinering eller inte mot A(H1N1), den så kallade svininfluensan, ett vid tidpunkten för studien pågående epidemi. Undersökningen genomfördes på en gymnasieskola vid två tillfällen (N=71). En hypotes om att negativt framad information skulle ge upp

Uppsatsen visar att digitaliseringen av samhället påverkat sättet att kommunicera i industriella relationer. Digitala kommunikationsverktyg skapar fler kommunikationstillfällen vilket gör relationen mer intensiv i såväl positiv som negativ bemärkelse. Vidare har vi sett att användandet av nya kommunikationsverktyg är en generationsfråga där en yngre sådan har ett mer naturligt tillvägagångssätt. F

The aim of the thesis is to explain how the adoption of ICT influences the performance of the national health service and what barriers exist in the adoption of ICT from three perspectives; processes, patients and employees. The thesis uses qualitative data to investigate the effects and barriers of ICT adoption in Region Skåne’s healthcare. The thesis has an inductive approach. The theories the t

Syftet med studien var att undersöka upplevelsen hos föräldrar till tonåringar relaterat till deras deltagande i COPE-föräldrautbildning för att få en förståelse för föräldraskapet och dess svårigheter. Vidare, utforskade studien motiven till att söka föräldrautbildning och även den inverkan som föräldrautbildningen hade på föräldrarna. För att uppnå resultaten genomfördes åtta stycken halvstruktuThe aim of the research is to account for the experiences of the parents of teenagers related to their participation in COPE-parenting program in order to gain the understanding for parenting and its difficulties. Moreover the study investigates the motives for applying for parenting program and also the impact that the participation in the parenting program had on the parents. In order to attain

The purpose of this study is to examine what kind of influences ”Fridhems Folkhögskola´s Music Education for Female Instrumentalists” (MKI) has had for the young women who studied there. Are they helped by the education and in what way? Are they helped by the education in their continuous life within music? I also wanted to examine if I could find statistical results that would compare the student