This essay studies the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) from the perspective of postcolonial theory, feminism and intersectionality. The theoretical framework constitutes the basis of this analysis. The aim of the analysis is to discuss the goals of equality and non-discrimination in CEDAW. This essay brings up the idea of women as a homogenous

The purpose of this essay is to examine if there is a slow genocide taking place in West Papua. To decide this, the situation of the people of West Papua will be applied on the genocide convention. Other alternative definitions will also be presented to recognize the complexity of the term genocide. The essay will focus on the violence and use of authority by the Indonesian government, the milita

Huvudsyftet med min uppsats är att se hur stor sannolikheten är för att ett nytt folkmord i Rwanda skulle kunna inträffa. Uppsatsen kommer också att fokusera på vad den rwandiska regeringen idag tar till för åtgärder för att stabilisera landet efter folkmordet 1994, samt hur man förebygger att eventuella folkmord inte inträffar och på så sätt kunna försäkra de rwandiska medborgarna fred, trygghet

I Rumänien lever tusentals barn på gatan i en miljö som är under värdig mänsklig standard. Syftet med denna uppsats är att belysa gatubarns situation i Rumänien, genom att beröra situationen utifrån flera olika perspektiv. Problemen kring Rumäniens gatubarn har sin grund i både landets historia och dess generella fattigdom. I och med barnkonventionen har andra länder ansvar genom det internationel

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka om Sverigedemokraterna kränker de mänskliga rättigheterna, genom sin syn på medborgarskap/nationalitet, religionsfrihet samt invandring/flyktingfrågan. Primärkällorna kommer att vara Sverigedemokraternas officiella hemsida med fokus på deras princip- och invandringspolitiska program samt FN:s traktat om de mänskliga rättigheterna. Hur dessa kategorier utavThe purpose of this essay is to examine if Sverigedemokraterna violates the human rights, through their vision of citizenship / nationality, freedom of religion as well as the immigration / refugee issue. Primary sources will be the Sweden Democrats' official web site with focus on their principle and immigration policy programs and the UN treaty on human rights. How these human rights categor

The march forward for human rights and the spread of it throughout the world has been subjected to arguments by Asian governments that human rights and the values it promotes goes contrary to Asian values, and the Confucian society. This essay explores the roots of the Asian values argument and these Asian values and tries to see the reasoning and the structure of what lies behind the argument abo

Abstract The aim of this paper was to analyze slotted bone points from Scania, southern Sweden and to examine different aspects of them such as social areas of use, typology and chronology, what kind of animal that was hunted and how, what a manufacturing site might look like and what should be observed on the site and decoration. The slotted bone points occur in the early and the middle Mesolithi

How to define Private Military Companies is an issue, which due to PMC’s explosive growth during the last 30 years has become increasingly relevant. But how do you define the PMC personnel that take a direct part in combat situations? Through a singularly juridical aspect, based on interpretations of the Geneva Conventions I try to answer this problem. This essay first tries to define the PMC

In this essay the notion of targeted killings is reviewed through arguments about law and philosophy based on two different newspaper articles written by Daniel Byman and Richard A. Wiley. Targeted killings in the articles context of the Israel-Palestine conflict are categorized in too three argument concepts in my analysis, the three concepts are effectiveness, legality and morality. Targeted kil

In the process of developing the modern and democratic society that the people of Sweden can enjoy today the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations (UN) in 1948 has been a cornerstone. Several of these rights have around the world been seen as fundamental to the democratic society and are today both a way of life, future and philosophy running through the country of Sw

In northern Uganda, a war between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and governmnet troops has raged for more than twenty years. In this conflict, the civilian population has been made a target and subjected to mass scale torture, mutilation and murder. Almost two million people have been forced to flee their homes to reside in government protected camps for Internally Displaced Persons. In these ca

Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka hur NATO:s policydokument förhåller sig till jus ad bellum som det formuleras i teorin om rättfärdigat krig. Då den moderna folkrätten inte verkar ta upp alla krigsföring som förs idag har de teologisk- etiska argumenten kommit tillbaka. Detta har lett till att den här uppsatsen är utformad som den är. Utifrån kartläggningen av det empiriska materialet

This essay investigates if attitudes to equality work among the administrative managers of Landskrona city can be altered through participating a seminar day on equality, multitude and discrimination. A questionnaire about the equality work in the municipality was sent out the administrative managers before the seminar day, and thereafter followed up by interviews. Through these interviews, leanin

Analyzing social spaces is central in understandings of power hierarchies at work, and there is an in­ creasing emphasis on situated analysis of how intersecting socials categories form the possible posi­ tions for subjects to inhibit. Drawing on contemporary feminist theory and studies, my goal is to nuance the under­ standing of how queer space in Copenhagen 2010 can be conceptualized by offerin

This is a study of the Swedish governments control over pathologicalized bodies. I have carried out a genealogical analysis of Swedish government official reports concerning forced sterilizations. The purpose of the study was to find out in which ways the Swedish government controls and restricts “certain kinds” of bodies when it comes to reproduction. With theoretical influences from Judith Butle

I denna studie har jag undersökt genuskonstruktionerna i Stephanie Meyers fyra böcker; Twilight (2005), New Moon (2006) Eclipse (2007) och Breaking Dawn (2008). Det teoretiska ramverket består av Judith Butlers teorier om den heterosexuella matrisen och perfomativitet, Gayle S Rubin och Michel Foucaults teorier om sexualitet som något historiskt konstruerat samt Laura Mulveys teori om ”The Male GaIn this essay I have studied gender constructions in Stephanie Meyers four books; Twilight (2005), New Moon (2006) Eclipse (2007) and Breaking Dawn (2008). My theory frame consists of Judith Butlers theory about the heterosexual matrix and performance, Gayle S Rubin and Michel Foucaults theory about sexuality as something historically constructed and Laura Mulvey´s theory about the “male gaze”. My

Children who have witnessed violence in their homes have not been considered victims of crime until recently and only few studies have been made regarding these children. It is crucial to investigate how these experiences affects the children and later on in their adult life. In my essay I will discuss this subject with the use of in-depth intervjues with three women. The informants/interviewees h

This bachelor’s thesis aims to problematize the debate regarding the use of quotas as a tool or strategy to create equality between women and men, and it focuses particularly on the current debate regarding the boards of companies. The thesis also addresses the debate regarding quotas in the university context. This thesis analyses the discourses against quotas for gender equity within these debat

Racial Profiling is a phenomenon which does not have an accepted definition but most researchers use the term as the inappropriate use of race as an indicator of potential criminal behavior in the work of the police. In April this year the state of Arizona enacted a new immigration law that allows the local police to arrest a person without a warrant if the officer has a probable cause to believe