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The purpose of this essay was to research and study the accountability of NGOs. The main question dealt with is with what measures and mechanisms NGOs handles critic on legitimacy and accountability deficit. It defines accountability and non-governmental organisations to facilitate an understanding of the concepts and notions of the study and goes on to discuss the criticism faced by NGOs, mainly

The most common cause of death in the world is not cancer or heart attack. The most common cause of death, is a deaths related to poverty. Yet, poverty is rarely mentioned in a connection to the right to life. Is there a reasonable ground for not mentioning the poverty in connection to the right to life? What difference could be made if the deaths caused by poverty, was mentioned in a direct conne

The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the Colombian children’s situation looks like due to the internal armed conflict in Colombia. I do this by exploring how the different actors, illegal armed groups and the state, of the conflict affect the children’s rights to education, life and safety, and adequate standard of living. In the last mentioned rights indicator I focus on children’s health

Parents have the primary responsibility to create a safe environment for their children. The family is of great importance, both as a basic social unit, but also for the individual child's development. In cases where the parents for various reasons are unable to care for their children and the family environment may be even harmful to the child, it is society's role to take over parental r

The purpose of this essay is to present the conclusions and recommendations in the Goldstone report that were given to the state of Israel, as well as presenting the state of Israel’s response and presented investigations against the allegations. Along with that, a presentation of Amnesty International’s updated assessment will be given along with its criticism towards the state of Israel due to t

Sexual violence is a widespread and severe problem in the Democratic Republic of Congo and hits thousands of civilians each year. In Congo sexual violence is a weapon of war and the women are the most affected. The last few years the sexual violence in Congo has received increased attention from international organizations, as the United Nations and non-governmental organizations, and also from th

This essay is about education, development and equality. Its main purpose is to examine the relationship between education and development, and how this relationship is understod by the international community, and particularly the UN. The essay also examines the impact education may or may not have on eqality. By analyzing data presented by the UNDP and comparing reports from different organs of

Several institutions regulating gender seem to overlook and even violate rights and needs for those living outside society’s norms about gender and sexuality. The council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights, amongst others, reports about violations of transgender persons’ right to life, health and physical integrity. This essay connects the situation of transgender persons to the fact that t

Syftet är att undersöka huruvida det ökande Facebook-användandet påverkar unga människors aktivitetsbalans och hälsa. Metoden som används i denna studie är en kvantitativ inriktad elektronisk enkät, där det ställs dels etnografiska frågor, men huvudsakligen frågor om undersökningspersonernas Facebook-användande för att se om/vad för effekt det har för deras hälsa och aktivitetsbalans. Det som fram

Enligt skollagen (1985:1100) har alla barn och ungdomar rättighet att gå i skolan och skolorna i Sverige har skyldighet att anpassa skolmiljön på ett lämpligt vis så att också personer med funktionshinder kan vara delaktiga och engagerade i aktiviteter som förekommer på skolan. Syftet med studien var att undersöka den fysiska miljön i fyra gymnasieskolor i Malmö stad med fokus på entréer, inre- oc

The Human Rights-Based Approach is an approach on development programming designed by the UN. It brings together all human rights principles recognized in our modern history eventuating in a normative framework. This framework is huge, containing complex concepts that each can be read in multiple ways. The result from this is a mess – talking a lot without saying much. Somewhere among all the fanc

Reumatism kan alla drabbas av och ungefär en miljon människor är drabbade i Sverige. Ledgångsreumatism är den vanligaste diagnosen av cirka 80 reumatiska diagnoser. Aktivitet är viktigt hos människor för att uppnå god hälsa och välbefinnande. Syftet med studien var att undersöka unga personer med reumatism, deras upplevelse av sin diagnos och dess konsekvenser i vardagen. Studien innefattar 42 ung

This essay is about the fundamental paradox that surrounds the trade of natural resources from developing countries. The essay will focus on the gemstone trade from Burma. How is it possible that a country can be so rich in natural resources but so poor in terms of human capital, welfare and development. Is there a nexus between the amount of a country’s natural resources and development, a nexus

Ansvarsutkrävandet på den transnationella arenan har idag avsevärda brister som för med sig en omfattande straffrihet för transnationella aktörer. Denna uppsats undersöker hur dessa brister gestaltar sig när det kommer till företagsverksamhet. Undersökningen illustreras av Bhopalkatastrofen 1984, en händelse för vilken ansvar ännu, efter nästan 27 år, inte utkrävts. Undersökningen bygger på teoriAccountability in the transnational arena today has significant flaws, which results in an extensive impunity for transnational actors. This paper examines how these flaws represent themselves when it comes to business. The examination is illustrated by the Bhopal disaster in 1984, an event for which responsibility has not yet been charged though nearly 27 years have passed. This study is based on

At the Swedish migration board there are today people sitting in detentions, not because they committed a crime but because the state believe they might hide in the country if they are not locked up. This paper is an analysis and a study of detentions for asylum seekers at the Swedish Migration board, in a human rights perspective. Foremost the study focuses on the laws of these practices. The pur

Freedom of expression and freedom of assembly are an integral part of a democratic society and of paramount importance to demonstrations and Non-governmental organisations (NGO). Both demonstrations and NGO:s are a very important sort of social capital and are part of horizontal organisations. Russia today is characterized by dominant vertical relations, even if there is a sufficient amount of hor

Attityderna till hemlöshet präglas ofta av ett fokus på de hemlösa, då dessa menas vara orsaken till den situation som de befinner sig i. När ett bristande uppfyllande av rättigheter inte betraktas som ett samhällsproblem riskerar de utsatta individernas situation att cementeras, vilket visar sig i att hemlösheten idag inte håller på att minska. Denna upppsats syftar till att klargöra de attityder

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the United States’ influence on the international community’s ability to prohibit the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Over the course of 100 days government forces and Hutu militia implemented an elimination campaign with the main objective of ethnically cleansing Rwanda of the Tutsi minority, and effectively slaughtered 800,000 civilians. By rhetorically analyzi