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Casting A Wide Net: Understanding the European Union’s Role in Protecting Human Rights in Global Fisheries

Radford, Samuel Sven LU (2024) MRSM15 20241
Human 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
organization
course
MRSM15 20241
year
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
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2024-09-17 14:00:56
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  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}},
}