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With time, the race among countries to reduce gender inequality has resulted in a worldwide reduction in gender discrimination. However, all regions have not performed equally; lagging behind most is the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Many potential reasons have been put forward, but in recent times the most discussed sources of this disparity have been the region’s religion and oil d

This paper studies the relationship between contraceptive adoption by women and three relevant predictors: women’s education, empowerment and religious affiliation. I employ recent information on women’s characteristics and the institutional environment for six Latin American countries, in the years 2013-2015, to perform a cross-section analysis with binary and multinomial logistic regressions, ha

Rådets direktiv 2000/78/EG av den 27 november om inrättande av en allmän ram för likabehandling, det så kallade arbetslivsdirektivet, syftar till att bekämpa diskriminering i arbetslivet bl.a. på grunden funktionshinder. Arbetslivsdirektivet har till stor del införlivats svensk rätt genom diskrimineringslagen (2008:567). I januari 2015 gjordes för diskrimineringslagens vidkommande en språklig ändrThe main purpose of the essay is to investigate two legal terms defining disability, as found in Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation and in the Swedish Discrimination Act (2008:78). The concept of disability according to the Discrimination Act has to fulfil the provisions set up by the EU. The term ”disa

Uppsatsen behandlar vissa frågor kring rättsinstitutet särskild granskning enligt aktiebolagslagen. Särskild granskning tillhör aktiebolagslagens minoritetsskyddsregler och ger en minoritet av aktieägare rätt att genom Bolagsverkets försorg få en särskild granskare utsedd. Genom en specialundersökning kan avgränsade förhållanden i bolaget som är av extraordinär natur granskas. Förarbetena har uttaThe thesis deals with certain questions concerning the legal institute’s special examination according to the Swedish Companies Act (SCA). Requesting a special examiner is a part of different protection controls for minority shareholder in SCA and gives a minority of shareholders the right to get a special examiner appointed by the Swedish Companies Registration Office (SCRO). By conducting a spec

I Aktiebolagslagen (2005:551) 21 kap 5§ finner man förvärvslåneförbudet. Förvärvslåneförbudet stipulerar att ett aktiebolag inte får lämna lån, ge förskott eller ställa säkerhet i syfte att mottagaren av detta ska förvärva aktier i det långivande bolaget. De huvudsakliga frågeställningarna i uppsatsen var; hur förhåller sig förvärvslåneförbudet till efterföljande finansiering och minutenlån och huIn the Swedish limited company act chapter 21 section 5 (Aktiebolagslag 2005:551) there is a prohibition that limits the ability to issue loans, give anything in advance or provide collateral with the purpose that the receiver is going to acquire shares in that same company. The main questions of this essay are to bring clarity to the following things. Can the prohibition loans against acquisition

Syftet med arbetet var att undersöka sambanden mellan yrkeselevers motivation och deras uppfattning av ämnet svenska på gymnasiet med avsikten att bidra till en ökad förståelse för de faktorer som försvårar yrkeselevers fullföljande av sina utbildningar. För att uppnå syftet genomfördes en enkätundersökning på ett yrkesgymnasium. Resultaten av undersökningen visade att elevernas inställning till o

Bitcoin och andra liknande kryptovalutor är rättsligt sätt relativt nya företeelser. Mot bakgrund av dess våldsamma ökning i värde de senaste åren samt det faktum att många aktörer tycks bli mer och mer positiva till alternativa investeringar i kryptovalutor försöker följande uppsats svara på frågan i vilken ut-sträckning svensk rätt tolererar pantsättning av bitcoin. För att besvara frågan undeThe topic of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin is rather new phenomenon in Swedish law. The last few years cryptocurrencies, but more specifically, bitcoin has seen rapid growth in value which in turn has led to a growing in-terest in bitcoin as an alternative asset to invest in. The following thesis will try to answer the question to which extent Swedish law tolerate using bitcoin as the asset tha

The education system in Guatemala is facing a lot of difficulties with low educational standards, a lack of teachers and facilities and a curriculum not equal or adjusted to the needs of all students. The largest problem occurs outside the system - children who don’t get access to education due to poverty. The largest group out of school is represented by Guatemala’s indigenous population in rura

The migration of people by sea is not a new phenomenon. Since early days, people whose lives have been under threat or people in search of better living conditions often have taken this route. However, today States are trying to prevent every attempt of irregular migration as they have established policies of interception at sea. They often engage in interceptions without taking into consideration

The aim of the study wasto examine and analyze the interviewed pre-sentence investigator´s statements about the process of making a pre-sentence investigation report.The study is qualitative in the form of a vignette featured to the five interviewed pre-sentence investigators.Two of the pre-sentence investigators are working with young people and the remaining three investigatorsareworking withadu

The aim of this study was to examine how Swedish women who are living in Japan as expatriates experience their life by studying their social networks and the relationships they formed. By interviewing six Swedish women, using semi-structured interviews, it was possible to identify three major themes that seemed to have a major role in how the women viewed themselves and how they described their ti

China is increasingly shifting attention to other developing continents, recently particularly towards Latin America. Trade between the Asian giant and Latin America has exponentially grown in the last decade; however, the question arises whether trade cooperation, the exports of mainly primary commodities or related manufactures and the import of manufactures, is beneficial for the Latin American

This is a qualitative, semi-structured bachelor thesis, within the social work, Bachelor of Science program. The purpose of this thesis is to identify whether seven of the Swedish social work educations perspective on service users as guest speakers mainly follows The National Board of Health and Welfare’s (Socialstyrelsen) emphasis on the positive effects, or rather follow our selected resea

This thesis will critically analyze the extent of inclusion and exclusion among young children of immigrants from Mexico to the the United States in the California Early Childhood Education System (ECE), commonly referred to as preschool. It will analyze inclusion based on the public ECE program, Head Start. Using secondary analysis, it studies how Head Start has been successful in promoting inclu

The purpose of this study is to examine and analyze the debate on a local and a national level about the needs of a computer and internet in the economical national standard in Sweden. I also intended to examine and reflect how the national standard relates to the development in society. The study is based on a qualitative method and therefore I interviewed three local politicians in Helsingborg a

Examensarbetet vill undersöka om Geografiska Informations System (GIS) kan förbättra presentation och analys i arbetet med prognos och varning av växtskadegörare. Huvuddelen av arbetet har inriktats på att undersöka förbättring av presentation. Arbetet som helhet har fått ett positivt mottagande av de inblandade på jordbruksverket och de regionala rådgivarna. Meningen är att man mha GIS ökar förkl