Browsing by Subject "Human rights."

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Internally displaced persons: international protection and asistance
(1997) Öztürk, Sultan
This study aims to investigate the recent international efforts to explore and develop a more coherent approach to increasing protection and assistance needs of internally displaced persons. During the past few years, the world has witnessed acute humanitarian emergencies which resulted in a growing scale of human suffering. These have been mostly triggered by internal conflicts and resulted in a growing number of internally displaced persons. The international responses to the crises of human displacement have been ad hoc and inadequate. in this study, the need for international protection and assistance to internally displaced persons is considered. Then the international law standards in order to meet the protection and assistance needs of internally displaced persons, tlie international instituí ional mechanisms to respond to the crises of intemal displacement and the longer-term strategies of prevention are evaluated.
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The protection of minorities in international law up to 1990: the League of Nations and the United Nations system
(1997) Erdoğan, Birsen
The issue of the protection of minorities has been one of the main concerns of International Law and the international system, especially in the twentieth century. For pragmatic, as well as humanitarian reasons, the International Law has been a protective instrument, since minority question has never contained itself entirely within the national boundaries. With the establishment of two international governmental organizations in this century, the system for the protection of minorities has entered into a new era, and its organizational framework gained a considerable significance. Together with the fundamental human rights, the concept of “collective rights” have also become a subject for the public, governmental and intellectual discussions, especially during the second half of the twentieth century. This study aims to examine the evolution of the system for the protection of minorities in International Law, from its beginning in the thirteenth century until 1990. However, it basically focuses on the guarantee and protection systems established by the League of Nations and the United Nations on the protection of minorities. It also examines the written documents and important initiatives of some regional organizations, such as Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE, originally called Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe). Moreover, the conceptual and definition problems of the issue are given a considerable place in the thesis. It argues that, in spite of the positive developments in International Law, the system of the protection of minorities should be elaborated, by considering distinct characteristics and aspirations of the minorities as a collective entity.
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The reconstruction of human security through the framework of security-as-emancipation
(2014) Karakaş, Uluç
This thesis provides a critical examination of Human Security through the framework of security-as-emancipation. Given the novelty and prominence of Human Security after the Cold War, it is argued that Human Security has yet to realize the promise of being human-centric toward individual agency and change. Accordingly, the subject matter of the thesis is to critically re-engage with the unfulfilled promise of Human Security. In this context, through comparing different perspectives offered by critical security studies, the thesis argues that the framework of security-as-emancipation paves the way for rethinking the promise of Human Security toward the reconstruction of Human Security by way of (1) iv problematizing contradictions within Human Security and (2) transforming Human Security into an emancipatory Human Security perspective. The problematization part lays bare the contradictory co-existence of both statecentrism and market-centrism within HS. Both state-centrism and marketcentrism necessitates re-conceiving the role of the state as well the role of the market. In accordance with the contradictory aspects, the reconstruction of Human Security puts forward a novel stance on both political community in terms of the role of the state and political economy in terms of the role of the market. In conjunction with this, the thesis asserts that an emancipatory Human Security perspective could realize the promise of being human-centric toward individual agency and just change.
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Three generations of human rights of women in the 20th century : an analysis of international legal documents
(2014) Birdal, Sevcan
This thesis focuses on the generations of human rights of women based on Vasak’s notion of three generations of human rights - in which the first generation rights refer political and civil rights; the second generation rights include economic, social and cultural rights while the third generation represents collective rights. To make a comparison between three generations of women’s human rights within the framework of 20th century international law, the thesis examines and analyzes plenty of international legal documents and reports of international conferences related with women’s rights throughout the century. This study emphasizes that when Vasak’s notion of three generations of human rights is applied to women’s rights in international legal documents of 20th century, the notion becomes more than a iv classification. Three generations of human rights of women reflects a real differentiation in terms of content, matter, priority, superiority and predominancy of the first generation to other two generations.