”What is human trafficking?” At first sight of this seemingly innocent question, it is difficult to imagine the implications and controversies that it contains. Although human trafficking is not a new phenomenon there was up to the 2000s no definite statement of the problem. But when the trade of human beings that increasingly grew in size was no longer possible to ignore, the United Nations tried

The purpose of this essay is to analyze how the sexual violence against women is being reported. Sexual violence against women is something that has been up for debate a long time. People and organizations all over the world have for a long time reported how women are being raped and how that is affecting them. The two reports in this essay from Human rights Watch shows how the retelling about the

En kvalitativ intervjustudie som bygger på tolv terapeuters erfarenheter av att arbeta med Funktionell Familjeterapi (FFT). Intervjuerna har analyserats med Tematisk analys och strukturerats i olika teman som sedan redovisas och diskuteras. Syftet med uppsatsen är att beskriva vad FFT-terapeuter upplever och har erfarenhet av vad som är verksamt i metoden. Därutöver vad de har för syn på de olika A qualitative interview-study with twelve therapists experiences of working with Functional Family Therapy (FFT). The interviews have been analysed by using Thematic Analysis and structured to different themes, which have been reported and discussed in this study. The purpose with this study is to describe FFT therapists´s experiences of what is effective in this model. In addition their view of t

An earthquake that occurred in Haiti 2010 caused considerable damage. Many people were killed, injured, lost their homes and other belongings during the earthquake. To this day, there is still a lot to do. The work to help the vulnerable people in Haiti continues and many NGOs and other international organizations have traveled to Haiti to do their best in helping people. This essay will discuss a

In this essay it will be analysed why people in need of HIV-medicine do not get access to them, which has so far resulted in millions of seemingly unnecessary deaths. It will be discussed what responsibilities scientists have and what people can or should do to claim rights to medicine. It is found that the main reason is the patent system, which allocates power from states to companies. To a high

This thesis is based on an eight week long field-study in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, with the aim of examining the challenges and opportunities for women’s empowerment through taking a micro-credit loan within a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) named Village Community Bank (VICOBA). This is done because of the posed objective that micro-credit lending to women is a tool for empowering them, there

Numerous Government have raised concerns about the absence of a global instrument that would regulate the ever growing trade in conventional arms and reduce the human suffering that the illicit transfers contributes to. Negotiations have been taken place and states and other participant such as NGO:s have been asked to contribute to the debate. Many different problems and criticisms have been rais

This thesis evaluates the EU-level tobacco products regulation and the regulation of tobacco products for oral use, in particular. The evaluation includes a historical overview of the development of relevant secondary legislation and a more detailed analysis of the current regulatory state. Following the analysis of the Tobacco Products Directive as the main legal instrument in the European tobacc

This thesis seeks to investigate possible relations between two status functions; citizenship and human rights-holder. The theoretical framework is built on two theories. Hannah Arendt’s theory is about statelessness as a way to un-willingly loose ones possibility to claim rights, since there is no apparent duty-holder. John Searle’s theory concerns human rights as an institutional fact, and which

The purpose of this essay is to investigate what or which practices Eslöv uses to find niches in the Öresund region. The basic data for the study is a community project called “The image of Eslöv” which began in autumn 2011, and that extends to the summer of 2012. Communal documents are a major part of the background facts to the essay to give the reader a better understanding of the municipality.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how different observers and reporters in the international debate form different opinions concerning current events in the Russian Republic of Chechnya in Caucasus and to try to illuminate what different consequences these different mediaconstructions might have for our public and political understanding of the situation, and the consequences these views

Surrogate motherhood is a growing phenomenon worldwide but so far the procedure is not permitted in Sweden. The legal situation may however be changing regarding this issue. On March 29, 2012 it was decided that the government should appoint a commission to investigate whether this procedure should be legal or not. The theoretical approach shows that there is a tension between liberal and feminist

The purpose of this study is to analyze whether an active sexual-life should be considered as a human right and to also analyze what responsibility the state has towards fulfilling this potential right for disabled persons, who are often incapable of creating an active sexual-life on their own, due to physical or mental restrictions. The study is built on an argumentative analysis and is categoriz

This essay seeks to critically examine the differences in perception of women and men who pay for sexual experiences abroad. It is a discourse analyses that investigates the similarities and differences between the female and male sex industry. The main focus of this essay is to examine the language that is being used to describe the female sex tourists that travel abroad to engage in sexual relat

Sexual violence has always been used as a weapon in war. Only recently have the UN started to work against the violence and tried to end the impunity. This year, Margot Wallström presented the report that she has been working on during her post as the special representative of the UN Secretary General for sexual violence in armed conflicts. The report contains information about the conflict- relat

The idea of human rights is that they are assumed to derive from some innate feature that all humans possess. Furthermore the definition of human rights lacks any urgent requests or claim of state responsibility. This allows a terminology regarding equal opportunities. I intend to demonstrate that the current usage of equality and rights is completely useless in order to enforce human rights. I

Bradley Manning is accused of the biggest leak of classified documents in the Unites States history. Some call him a traitor, others a hero. The purpose of this thesis is to examine through discourse analysis how Fox News, as the leading news channel in America, portrays him. I will use theories of heroism presented by Jesse Graham, Jonathan Haidt and Sara E Rimm-Kaufman to see how the image of a

Background: Somali piracy and armed robbery against ships remain to be one of the major global concerns today. Since 2007, over 1,500 piracy and piratical attacks were reported to the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre. These figures were gradually increased over the years, along with the degree of maritime violence. Somali pirates, with the urge of ransom payments, have consequently become more threate

The concept of voluntariness is based on several assumptions that cannot be taken for granted, as they are deeply contested among philosophers. This thesis will focus on the relationship between the possible options and the voluntariness of the action chosen by the agent. This will be carried out by understanding the concept of voluntariness in two competing ways: Robert Nozick's rights-based