CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Dolma, Tenzin |
|---|---|
| Title | The case of tibetan political prisoners: practical critiques of the international and regional human rights response |
| Summary | The gap between the human rights instruments and its practice is getting wider, making the practice seem irrelevant to the core concepts. Tibetan political prisoners are facing human rights violations despite many international and regional legal instruments meant to protect it. This research aimed to find out the challenges which were in the way of protecting human rights of Tibetan political prisoners. Tibetan’s movement has been dealt in order to bring out the relevance between their activism and the state of political prisoners. Looking into the international and regional legal instruments, the research found that many of those provisions were not in practice towards the Tibetan political prisoners. Human rights is there but it is not there, meaning it is there but not so helpful. The presence of human rights is shown in this study through the contributions made by various bodies towards improving the situation of Tibetan political prisoners, yet the situation still remains the same. Thus the research came up with certain forms of challenges that still blocks the path of improvement, and on the basis of these challenges, some recommendations have been made |
| Supervisor | Hamilton, Michael James |
| Department | Legal Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/dolma_tenzin.pdf |
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