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Sosiaalinen kansalaisuus kehittyvässä yhteiskunnassa : T. H. Marshallin sosiaalisia oikeuksia korostava kansalaisuuskäsitys hyvinvointivaltiota koske…

2016

Ochrana prav osób so zdravotnym postihnutim ako uloha socialnej prace - predpoklady a realita

2014

In ancient times, the sick and the disabled were denied rights due to man (often they were eliminated from the population, what are the Sparta and ancient Rome). Gradually, as the wider development of societies (including the idea of the humanities), also people with disabilities were given rights belonging to every human being. Today, they - like all people - have the rights guaranteed by law and socially. However, the contemporary reality too often exposes their sole declarativeness, which makes the issue of the protection of human rights (here the person with a disability) is one of the most important tasks of social services acting on behalf of people with disabilities. This implies cha…

Exploring human rights conceptualisations in the United States : a study into knowledge and attitudes of participants connected to a social justice N…

2016

Natt, Sharon. 2016. Exploring Human Rights Conceptualisations in the United States: A study into knowledge and attitudes of participants connected to a social justice NGO. University of Jyväskylä. Department of Education. Concepts of human rights are present within our social, global and geo-political frameworks, yet their understandings are subject to infinite influences and interpretations. This localised and exploratory study importantly addresses a gap in previous research by investigating such conceptualisations against the backdrop of the United States. Centring on knowledge and attitudes, it focuses specifically on US participants with a connection to a social justice NGO. Representa…

Human dignity in the learning environment : testing a sociological paradigm for a diversity-positive milieu with school starters

2004

The Role of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the New Economy

2004

The idea of corporate social responsibility has come to be accepted as one of the major components of business growth and sustainability. The success in the new economy comes with various challenges. Those challenges require business and their managers to think beyond traditional way of looking for short-term goals. It requires business and the people inside these behemoths to embrace a much broader perspective that is also inclusive of stakeholders. The nature of society we are living in has changed. The nature of governance has equally changed since people are now enjoying more freedom within each societal democratic tenet. This freedom has found its way in the business and into the facto…

The Human Right to Social Security and Its Impact on Socio-Political Action in Germany and Finland

2017

Social human rights have rarely been given attention in social work research or comparative studies on welfare states. The paper aims at filling the gap by analysing the conception of human beings inherent in human rights and in unemployment policy documents in Germany and Finland. Its focus lies on the right to social security, a central norm of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The main question is what impact does the right to social security have on socio-political action in Germany and Finland. The results of the analysis, which was based on the objective hermeneutics, revealed a structural similarity between the conceptions of human beings in both cou…

Succession of States in Respect of Treaties on Human Rights

2022

1. Preliminary Remarks. 2. The Vienna Convention on Succession of States in respect of Treaties. 2.1 Scope of Application. 2.2 Reduction in its Scope of Application. 2.3 Increased Scope of Application. 3. Succession of States Practice in respect of United Nations Human Rights Treaties. 3.1 Membership in the United Nations Organization and Succession of States. 3.1.1 Membership in the United Nations Organization. 3.1.2 Succession of States to Membership in the United Nations Organization. 3.2 Succession of States and United Nations Human Rights Treaties. 4. Succession of States Practice in respect of Human Rights Treaties Concluded by the Council of Europe. 4.1 Membership in the Council of E…

Human Rights in Tourism: Conceptualization and Stakeholder Perspectives

2007

The present paper is an attempt to integrate the concept of human rights into the mainstream tourism discourse. In the name of development, human rights are often neglected while there are definite long-term advantages to be gained by actively promoting it. The paper examines the human rights perspectives of the major stakeholder groups in tourism to finally arrive at a comprehensive picture. Implications of some of the general principles and proclaimed guidelines of human rights for tourism are discussed. It is concluded that sustainable development of tourism is not possible until human rights as a relevant category is recognized by all the stakeholders. In addition, a case study is provi…

Equal access to the top? Measuring selection into finnish academia

2019

In this article, we draw a parallel between equality of opportunity in educational transitions and equality of opportunity in academic careers. In both cases, many methodological problems can be ameliorated by the use of longitudinal rather than cross-sectional data. We illustrate this point by using Finnish full-population register data to follow the educational and academic careers of the 1964–1966 birth cohorts from birth to the present day. We show how the Finnish professoriate is highly selected both in terms of parental background and in terms of gender. Individuals of different backgrounds differ greatly in the likelihood of completing different educational and academic transitions, …

Intellectual property rights and economic growth

2015

Striving for greater economic growth, requires a great understanding of the underlying factors. One of the factors may be the intellectual property rights and the level of its protection. Whether it is and how does it behave are the questions answered by this thesis. The theoretical framework comes mainly from the Schumpeterian growth model. The empirical methodology uses GMM in order to obtain reliable results. The level of intellectual property rights protection in the country does seem to have a positive effect on the country’s growth rate. Furthermore it seems that the relation is non-linear: The incremental changes are different between low and high starting levels of the IPR protectio…