Master-Theses Human Rights

The graduates of the continuing education master's program "Human Rights" have written their master's theses on the following topics:

  • Alexandra Abelkis, MLS: Does the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism Mean Hope for Syria?
  • Alia' Al-Wir, BA LL.M.: Reproductive Rights in Occupied Palestinian Territories: Israel’s Human Rights Obligation
  • Mag.phil. Andela Aleksic, LL.M.: The Role of UNMIK in Relation to Missing People in Kosovo - Progress and Challenges
  • Mag.iur. Tasnim-Theodora Al-Rifai, LL.M.: How did the expropriation of land and property from the Bedouins by Israel impact their identity as an indigenous people and what were the implications for their recognition as such?
  • Farzaneh Assadi, LL.M.: Assessing the Legal Foundations and Challenges of Referring the Situation in Iran to the International Criminal Court: A Study in Human Rights Violations in Iran since 2019
  • Gazbubu Babaiarova, LL.M.: Between Hope and Hardship: Kyrgyz Truck Drivers and The Struggle Against Exploitation in Europe
  • Burak Tahsin Bahçe, LL.M.: Diverging Interpretation of Personal Liberty and Security: Inconsistencies between the Jurisprudence of the UN Human Rights Committee and the European Court of Human Rights
  • Mag.iur. Victoria Biber, LL.M.: Unaccompanied Minor Refugees - Selected lssues on the Vulnerability of Unaccompanied Minors from a Human Rights Perspective on the Example of Austria
  • Hanna Brandner, BA LL.M.: The Human Rights Dimension in the Migrant Integration Process: In the case of Austria
  • Mag.iur. Dr.iur. Alrun Cohen-Soyer, LL.M.: Artificial Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism Challenges and Chances for Human Rights
  • Isidora Čolić, BA LL.M.: Empowering Youth for a Sustainable Future - The Role of General Comment No. 26 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child
  • Mahajoth Singh Darshan Singh, LL.M.: Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: A submission of the 1984 Sikh Genocide case to the International Court of Justice
  • Mag. Maria Dimcheva, LL.M., LL.M.: ‘KEY PRINCIPLE OF NON-DISCRIMINATION  IN THE ENJOYMENT OF SOCIAL-ECONOMIC RIGHTS’ with a special focus on the universal rights of migrant workers
  • Mag. phil. Marta Dubrovskiy, LL.M.: Forced Returns and the Importance of Human Rights Monitoring in the Context of Externalisation of Migration Management
  • Mag.iur. Hanna Eibensteiner, LL.M.: The Principle of Distinction in the Context of Israeli Airstrikes on the Gaza Strip in Response to the Massacre on the 7th of October 2023
  • Daniela Figueiredo Moreira, B.A. LL.M.: Rethinking International Legal Frameworks against Child Sexual Abuse Material Online: Challenges and Strategies for Child Rights Protection
  • Rinor Gjergji, LL.M.: Does a human right to democracy exist?
  • Caio Henrique Godoy da Costa, LL.M.: Punitivism in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: A Call for Self-Limitation within Human Rights Systems
  • Mag.phil. Andrea Götzelmann-Rosado, MLS: Accompanied Children in Austrian Asylum and Alien Law Procedures: The Right to Effective Participation
  • Annika Günther, LL.M.: The Application of the Non-Refoulement Principle in Regard to Climate-Induced Migration in International and European Law
  • Elizabeth Herman, MLS: Inter-State Complaints Mechanism in International Human Rights Law: A Change in Course and its Potential for Increased Enforcement
  • Cristiana Ioana Iucu Bumbu, BA M.E.S. LL.M: The OSCE Moscow Mechanism - its relevance and functionality for the human rights protection in the context of the war in Ukraine
  • Mag.iur. Olivia Janicek, BA MA LL.M.: Current Developments in Sami Rights in Scandinavia, with a Focus on Recent Jurisprudence
  • Mag.iur. Romina Lehki, LL.M.: The Protection of LGBT+ Persons in International Humanitarian Law
  • Dott.ssa Dott. Mag. Alessandra Macrì, LL.M.: Protection of Indigenous Peoples' Sacred Sites within the International Legal Framework of FoRB and the Impact of the UNDRIP
  • Dr.phil. Michael Mair, MLS: The Useful Foreigner. A Campaign for Asylum Seekers in Vocational Training and its Impact
  • Venera Maksuti, LL.M.: An Analysis of Legal Reforms and Enforcement Strategies to Safeguard Women's Rights and Combat Femicide in Kosovo
  • Christian Davis Moorman, MLS: Against the Classical Distinction Between Positive and Negative Human Rights: A Case for Shue’s Tripartite Model
  • Alena Morgan, LL.M.: The Impact of Peacemaking in the Post-Modern, Globalized Context of Conflicting Human Rights Norms and Evolving Notions of Governance
  • Dante Nicklin, LL.M.: Strategies and protocols in Arabic and African countries ensuring the protection of rights relating to trans-women.
  • Betina Andrea Pasteknik MA HES-SO MA, LL.M: Exploring Synergies in the United Nations: a Focus on Anti-Corruption and Human Rights
  • Bc. Ondrej Pavlik, LL.M.: Comparative Analysis of Global Human Rights Sanctions Regimes - the EU, UK, US and Canadian Approaches
  • Sebastian Pay, BA MA LL.M.: Consequences and implications of implementing fundamental rights for social security and minimum care in the Austrian constitution.
  • Paola Polignano, BA LL.M.: Racial discrimination in AI-based medical devices: the lack of diversity and representation of black women in training data.
  • Dr. jur. Imola Edda Rencsik, MA LL.M.: The Human Rights-Based Approach in Smart City Governance
  • Coline Repp LL.B. LL.M.: State Responsibility for the conducts of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the 2022 protests
  • Mariana De Los Angeles Rojas Loreto, LL.M.: Parties to the conflict and third States's response on allowing and facilitating humanitarian relief in Gaza Strip and the West Bank
  • Eleinka Svetlana Romo Fierro, LL.M.: Mexico’s Effors to Combat Femicide: An International Human Rights Law Perspective
  • Denise Scheer, LL.M.: The right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment as customary international law: de lege lata or de lege ferenda?
  • Emma Skuta, LL.M.: Rights of Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities in the Czech Republic with regards to the Use of Restraints and Involuntary Treatment
  • Mag.iur. Miriam Soldan, LL.M.: Shari`a-based Reservations to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT) - A Comparative Analysis between Pakistan and Qatar
  • Mag.iur. Aida Spahovic, LL.M.: Legal aspects of the use of social media by States during armed conflicts: The example of the Hamas-Israel War
  • Berk Cem Tatar, LL.M.: A Nascent Approach to Human Rights v. Diplomatic Immunity
  • Mag.iur. Dr.iur. Gabriel Thurner, LL.M.: Free Will in an Arab Human Rights Context: An Incompatibility of Arab Human Rights Sources with International Human Rights Regarding Religious Freedom and Gender Equality?
  • Wilson Carlisle Von Kessler, LL.M.: Same Horse, Different Color: The Incorporation of Defamation of Religion into the Broader Concept of Hate Speech at the International Level and the Danger it Poses to Religious and Political Minorities
  • Mag. Dr.iur. Michael Vallender BA LL.M.: The impact of artificial intelligence on human rights Which human rights are most likely to be impacted by the unregulated advance of AI?
  • Karoline Wimmer, LL.B. (WU), LL.M.: A Human Right to Democracy
  • Victoria Wurtz, BA BA, MLS: India’s Kashmiri Pandits  Exodus from 1989 to 1991
  • JUDr. Mgr. Roman Zapletal, LL.M.: The right of the child to freedom of religion: Case-study of the Sharia-based reservation of Iraq to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • Katharina Maria Zlattinger, BA BA MA MA LL.M.: Human Rights Protection of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)in Juba, South Sudan. a case study