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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in EU Development Policy: From Goals to Human Rights or Vice Versa?
Bezděková, Petra ; Martinková, Viera (advisor) ; Földes, Kristián (referee)
The main topic of this thesis is the role of economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights in the Development Policy of the European Union (EU). The aim of the thesis is to find out through critical discourse analysis, whether the ESC rights are implemented as human rights or rather as goals. The theoretical framework consists of two approaches to the understanding of ESC rights. First, equal position of ESC rights and civil and political rights as human rights, all universal, indivisible and interconnected. This approach is represented by Amartya Sen. Second approach denying the ESC rights such an equal position because to their achievement, certain economic resources are needed, and those are not distributed equally in the world. Therefore, they are rather goals to be achieved than human rights. This approach is represented by Aryeh Neier. The outcome of this thesis is a different position of ESC rights and civil and political rights in the EU Development Policy, despite the EU being legally bound to equal promotion of all human rights by international law and its own official documents. Tools for human rights promotion under the policy are mainly focused on fulfilling civil and political rights. ESC rights are rather implemented as practical, complementary means to economic growth and poverty...
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EU Development Policy: How the Member States Implement Commitments in the Area of Aid Effectiveness and Financial Volume
Šutová, Martina ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (advisor) ; Dubský, Zbyněk (referee)
Development cooperation is nowadays a highly discussed topic, especially in the context of its effectiveness. In the past years the European Union and the Organization for economic cooperation and development adopted several documents concerning aid effectiveness and possible ways of its improvement. The aim of this thesis is to find out, in the case of selected states (France, Sweden, and the Czech Republic), if they implement the commitments resulting from these documents into their national development policies and if they carry out their development cooperation in compliance with them. Since the commitments in this area overlap between the two organizations and both of them are trying to influence the states to fulfill their commitments, this thesis will also try to identify which of these organizations has a greater influence on the chosen states. Keywords EU development policy, Council Conclusions, Member States, OECD, aid effectiveness, financial commitments
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Selected analysis of the EU development assistance
Kalibová, Markéta ; Vondrušková, Barbora (advisor) ; Sejkora, Jiří (referee)
Including its member states is the EU the largest provider of development assistance in the world. This bachelor thesis deals with the issue of the EU development policy. The goal of this thesis is to evaluate effectiveness of the EU development assistance in selected countries on the basis of selected indicators. The counties are Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Peru and Ukaine. Evaluation of effectiveness was based on the outputs of the sectors in selected countries that were financially supported by the EU. According to these data, there was at least partial improvement in each of the selected countries. The EU development assistance in these countries was therefore identified as effective.
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