Sökning: "Indigenous Women´s Rights"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 uppsatser innehållade orden Indigenous Women´s Rights.

1. 1. Indigenous justice in Guatemala: Indigenous women’s access to justice versus indigenous communities’ collective rights

   Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Författare :Mónica Alejandra Escobedo Reyes; [2022-05-20]
   Nyckelord :indigenous justice; indigenous women; indigenous girls; Guatemala; legal pluralism; feminism; human rights; women’s rights; indigenous peoples’ rights;

   Sammanfattning : In 2016, the Constitutional Court of Guatemala ruled in favor of validating the application of ancestral justice by the indigenous authorities of the community of Comitancillo, San Marcos, to an individual who raped a 10-year-old girl. In addition to recognizing the application of an ancestral punishment that consisted in asking for forgiveness and receiving some lashings from members of his family as valid, the court ordered the dismissal of the case in the legal ordinary system, claiming the aggressor had already been judged and punished. LÄS MER

3. 2. Gendering Ethnicity : Colonialism and Structural Violence in the Swedish 1928 Reindeer Grazing Act

   Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

   Författare :Alva Blomkvist; [2022]
   Nyckelord :Swedish colonialism; Reindeer Grazing Act; Sámi; Sápmi; gender; violence;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis examines how the gendering of ethnicity in the Swedish Reindeer Grazing Act of 1928 (RBL 1928) was part of a colonial structure of violence. The research context in which this thesis places itself is in the intersection of previous scholarship on the colonial interest in controlling Indigenous marriage, and scholarship on Swedish colonial history in Sápmi. LÄS MER

4. 3. Defending the Defenders: International Protection for Local Human Rights Defenders in the Global South

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

   Författare :Timothy Lincoln Reeves Jr; [2022]
   Nyckelord :Human Rights Defenders Global South International Regional Human Rights Systems Attacks violations Protection; Law and Political Science;

   Sammanfattning : Local human rights defenders play a significant role in the realization and enjoyment of human rights. Working alone or in association with others, they peacefully advocate for and promote fundamental freedoms and human rights for themselves and for their fellow citizens. LÄS MER

5. 4. The Difficult Sami Heritage; : a study of museum practices

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Författare :Kristina Thorell; [2019]
   Nyckelord :difficult heritage; Sami heritage; colonization; religious history;

   Sammanfattning : This study focuses on the difficult Sami heritage which is exhibited within local history museums in northern Sweden. The study incorporates theories from cultural science and sociology but it is written within religious history as a philological and text-oriented discipline where discourses and social constructions of the Sami heritage and worldviews are in focus. LÄS MER

7. 5. Empowering indigenous women in Guatemala– A qualitative study of the indigenous women’s ability to empowerthemselves in the department of Sololá, Guatemala

   Master-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Nationalekonomi

   Författare :Frida Lundström; Elin Morén; [2017]
   Nyckelord :Guatemala; empowerment; indigenous women; herstory; empowering women.;

   Sammanfattning : Empowerment is a fundamental human right. The indigenous women in Guatemala, however, sufferfrom both gender and racial discrimination, which through history have un-empowered them. LÄS MER