Tag: Human Rights Promotion
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Reform without inclusion?
– Main question: can BiH strengthen rule of law and fundamental rights while preserving a constitutionally exclusionary system? – Main argument: the post-Dayton framework institutionalised ethnopolitical division, while veto mechanisms and sectarian incentives obstruct reform. – Conclusion: democratic transformation depends on gradually expanding more inclusive and civic-based political participation within existing institutional structures.
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Eyes from above
Is it possible or necessary to use satellites to prevent human trafficking and forced labour? Yes it is necessary, as this allows us to identify and combat the structures that enable such practices more quickly. There is still a great amount of work to be done before this idea can be put into practice.
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Iranian Resistence between Opression and War:
1. Sanaie links her family’s persecution to support for the NCRI and its vision of a secular democratic Iran. 2. She says protests are driven by repression, economic crisis, and violent state crackdowns. 3. Sanaie rejects foreign intervention and monarchy restoration, arguing only organized internal resistance can bring change.
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The continued fight for democracy
the reoprt follows how different countries in the MENA region have been shaped by the arab spring, focussing on its effects on 1. the legal political systems 2. the socio-political impact 3. the role of regional/domestic and international human rights organisations – providing a comparative overview of the differences and similiarities shaping MENA
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War in the Dark
1. Do Russian strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure violate international humanitarian law? 2. The attacks systematically targeted civilian infrastructure during extreme winter conditions, causing disproportionate civilian harm with no identifiable military necessity, in breach of the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I. 3.The law is clear. What is missing is the political will to enforce…
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Follow Lithuania: Not only words, but also deeds
To what extent can Lithuania’s values-based foreign policy serve as a model for the EU? Lithuania demonstrates that a consistent values-based foreign policy is feasible in practice, but its long-term effectiveness depends on sustained support from allies and the ability to act autonomously in a complex international environment. Europe can learn from this mindset and…
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Unfinished Revolutions
main question: how different mena questions developed post arab spring, how did this manifest politically and legally through out the region, what are major on-going/ recent/ past developments actively shaping the countries
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Erasing the Future:
This brief investigates the systematic deportation of Ukrainian children as a deliberate instrument of Russian state policy. It argues that the integration of children into Russian society is a calculated effort to dismantle Ukrainian national identity, constituting a crime against humanity. The Brief advocates for a UN-mandated tracking registry and intensified third-party mediation to secure…
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Maternal Mortality as Foreign Policy Failure
Why is maternal health not treated as a strategic foreign policy priority? This report argues that Sudan’s maternity crisis exposes systemic failures in humanitarian and foreign policy frameworks that marginalise women’s reproductive care. Maternal deaths in conflict are predictable and preventable, yet under-protected. Placing maternity care at the centre of foreign policy is essential for…
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Justice Beyond the Courtroom in Africa
In what ways does transnational litigation function as both a challenge to and a reproduction of corporate impunity in the strategies of environmental justice movements in Africa? African movements use courts to hold transnational corporations accountable, but legal action can both contest and reproduce systemic injustice, showing that true environmental justice requires collective social action…