Casting A Wide Net: Understanding the European Union’s Role in Protecting Human Rights in Global Fisheries
(2024) MRSM15 20241Human Rights Studies
- Abstract
- Modern laws have established many protections for human rights; the difficulty now lies with enforcing them, and nowhere is this clearer than at sea. This thesis seeks to contribute to scholarship on this challenge by providing a case-study on the role of the European Union, as an innovative actor in global governance with unique capabilities, in protecting human rights in European and global fisheries against several salient issues, including IUU fishing, forced labour, and social, economic, and labour rights violations. By investigating EU primary, secondary, and international legislation through content and context analysis, this thesis provides an outline of the EU’s role as a human rights actor in global fishing in theory. Then,... (More)
- Modern laws have established many protections for human rights; the difficulty now lies with enforcing them, and nowhere is this clearer than at sea. This thesis seeks to contribute to scholarship on this challenge by providing a case-study on the role of the European Union, as an innovative actor in global governance with unique capabilities, in protecting human rights in European and global fisheries against several salient issues, including IUU fishing, forced labour, and social, economic, and labour rights violations. By investigating EU primary, secondary, and international legislation through content and context analysis, this thesis provides an outline of the EU’s role as a human rights actor in global fishing in theory. Then, drawing on critical theory, global governance theory, and policy diffusion theory, it contrasts these analytical findings with additional data to highlight the factors that make the EU’s human rights protections a success or failure in practice. Ultimately, this produces a holistic understanding of the EUs function as a human rights actor in global fisheries, the findings of which exemplify the significance of explicit, legislative attention to human rights issues, and the cost of a missing human rights based approach in EU policy. Overall, these findings demonstrate positive EU successes in protecting human rights internationally that are hampered by legislative shortcomings, supporting scholarship on the EU’s potential for human rights action whilst likewise emphasising the contemporary existence of a gap between this potential and reality. (Less)
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- author
- Radford, Samuel Sven LU
- supervisor
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- Olof Beckman LU
- organization
- course
- MRSM15 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- European Union, Human Rights, Global Governance, Fisheries, Legislation, Content Analysis
- language
- English
- id
- 9164461
- date added to LUP
- 2024-09-17 14:00:56
- date last changed
- 2024-09-17 14:00:56
@misc{9164461, abstract = {{Modern laws have established many protections for human rights; the difficulty now lies with enforcing them, and nowhere is this clearer than at sea. This thesis seeks to contribute to scholarship on this challenge by providing a case-study on the role of the European Union, as an innovative actor in global governance with unique capabilities, in protecting human rights in European and global fisheries against several salient issues, including IUU fishing, forced labour, and social, economic, and labour rights violations. By investigating EU primary, secondary, and international legislation through content and context analysis, this thesis provides an outline of the EU’s role as a human rights actor in global fishing in theory. Then, drawing on critical theory, global governance theory, and policy diffusion theory, it contrasts these analytical findings with additional data to highlight the factors that make the EU’s human rights protections a success or failure in practice. Ultimately, this produces a holistic understanding of the EUs function as a human rights actor in global fisheries, the findings of which exemplify the significance of explicit, legislative attention to human rights issues, and the cost of a missing human rights based approach in EU policy. Overall, these findings demonstrate positive EU successes in protecting human rights internationally that are hampered by legislative shortcomings, supporting scholarship on the EU’s potential for human rights action whilst likewise emphasising the contemporary existence of a gap between this potential and reality.}}, author = {{Radford, Samuel Sven}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{Casting A Wide Net: Understanding the European Union’s Role in Protecting Human Rights in Global Fisheries}}, year = {{2024}}, }