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Abstract This study focuses the electoral reforms and the practical performances of the Non-party Caretaker Government in terms of its role to ensure that the ninth parliamentary elections be free, fair and credible. In Bangladesh, after Parliament had been dissolved, the constitutionally-mandated Non-party Caretaker Government was appointed to oversee the parliamentary elections, its main purpos

Den 27:e december 2008 inledde Israel en stor militär operation, kallad ”Operation gjutet bly” (”Operation Cast Lead”), mot den palestinska militanta, tillika folkvalda, gruppen Hamas i Gaza. Kriget fick stort utrymme i media som vi menar förhöll sig i det närmaste anti-israeliska i sin rapportering. Vår undersökning går i huvudsak ut på att kartlägga på vilka sätt Gaza viktimiserats i svensk medi

The emergence of new media technologies, particularly the Internet, has transformed communicative environments and media landscape, influencing social, cultural and political processes in our everyday life. It is claimed to contribute to the recent transnational large-scale social movements in the last decade such as the anti-globalization protests like well-known ‘Battle of Seattle’ in 1999 or th

The purpose of this paper is to look at Greek and Roman attitudes toward and comments on cosmetics during antiquity. I will also try to define who used cosmetics and why. Moreover, to illustrate ancient usage of cosmetics, what kind of raw materials and pigments were included in the cosmetic products, go over and compare the different types of cosmetics and their different properties and purposes

We need universal policies that can embrace the broad masses in the society. At the same time, this does not mean that these policies are good for everyone. There could be local knowledge and experiences from individuals that universal education policies fail to notice, see or neglect. It is important to have universal education policies that can embrace the broad masses. It is also important to k

Contemporary international society goes through rapid transformations, including migratory flows on a greater scale than experienced hitherto. The African and the European Union have claimed joint responsibility in treating the root causes of migration by instigating development in sending countries. With the current pace, the common goal of reducing migration is far from being reached and new gro

Imagining how contemporary conflicts have divided societies in the recent times put one in a position to think of possibilities that will improve the activities of reconciliation initiatives for a lasting peaceful coexistence in the aftermath of conflicts. In Rwanda series of conflicts have emerged since the end of colonial rule till the genocide in 1994 calling for a necessary transitional justic

I den här uppsatsen gör vi en jämförelse av tre teoretiska perspektiv som förklarar orsaker till etniska konflikter. De tre teorierna är primordialism, konstruktivism och instrumentialism. Idén till detta tillvägagångssätt hämtar vi från Graham Allison som menar att olika teorier ger olika förklaringar eller tolkningar av ett händelseförlopp. Vi utför därför en fallstudie av den etniska konflikten

One of the unsolved puzzles in democratization studies today is the prevalence of authoritarian regimes in the Middle East. Previous comparative studies have overlooked the region because it does not contain a single case of successful democratization. Middle Eastern scholars, on the other hand, tend to lack the theoretical tools on what it would take for this area to democratize. The purpose of t

För ett land i efterkrigsskedet är det viktigt att snabbt återuppbygga demokratifrämjande institutioner, stödja element i det civila samhället som värnar för tolerans och att skapa en tradition av ett demokratiskt samhälle. Roland Paris presenterar i sin teori Institutionalization Before Liberalization (IBL) ett ramverk för hur detta bör gå till. Utifrån vårt intresse för Kosovos historia och den

År 2000 initierade Andrés Pastrana, dåvarande president i Colombia, ett socialt och ekonomiskt fredsprojekt kallad Plan Colombia. USA har som ensam uppbackare av projektet bistått med över fem miljarder dollar i syfte att föra krig mot droger. De uppsatta målen inom ramen för Plan Colombia har dock inte uppfyllts, och på vissa håll benämner man även insatsen som kontraproduktiv. Vi har analyserat

OECD:s riktlinjer för multinationella företag, antagna 1976 som en del av Deklarationen om internationella investeringar och multinationella företag, har nyligen genomgått en stor revision. Bland de reviderade texterna finns regler rörande informationshantering, där det talas om krav på transparens och offentlighet. Som några anledningar till revisionen anges småföretagens allt viktigare roll på d

Tying arrangements have been controversial and regarded with suspicion for a long time both within the EC competition law and within the US antitrust law. Tying is a vertical restraint and can be described as an obligation to accept the purchase of an unwanted or unnecessary product or service in order to be able to purchase a wanted product or service. A tying arrangement presupposes an element o

Although direct taxation falls under the sovereignty of each individual Member State, that sovereignty must be practiced with respect for community legislation and the EC Treaty. National legislation that in any way hinders the freedoms guaranteed by the Treaty or discourages nationals of a Member State to practice those freedoms is infringing the EC Treaty and is not to be tolerated. The number o

The focus on this master thesis is to familiarize the reader with The Inter-Club Agreement and to present some of the problems with its application that have occurred in practice and how it has been solved through case law. The first part (chapter 2) of the thesis presents the Inter-Club Agreement to the reader and explains why it was created in the first place. The reader will get a view of the c

Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att utreda vilka olika möjligheter det finns att erhålla kreditsäkerhet i upphovsrätt till datorprogram. Främst utreds situationen när en säljare överlåter upphovsrättigheterna till ett program på kredit och vill erhålla säkerhet i upphovsrätten under avbetalningsperioden. I andra hand utreds möjligheten att erhålla kreditsäkerhet i upphovsrätten rent allmänt, det v

The purpose of this thesis is to explore whether access to justice in Guatemala can be provided for the Mayan population by the use of their own justice system and what the consequences of its application would be. Prohibiting factors are economical, geographical, linguistic, cultural and institutional in nature. It is clearly the indigenous people that suffer most from the lack of the basic right

Dagens Kina håller allt mer på att anpassa sig efter de normer som råder inom den internationella avtalsrätten. Detta ges utryck för genom ett omfattande reformarbete inom lagstiftningsområdet, men även genom de reformer som syftar till att möjliggöra för avtalsparter på marknaden att via till exempel en skiljenämnd avgöra en tvist. Dessa reformer kan vidare illustreras, genom antagandet av en ny