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Child Soldiers: Recruitment and Abuse of Children in Armed Conflicts
Karásková, Karolina ; Makariusová, Radana (advisor) ; Ludvík, Zdeněk (referee)
The main aim of this Master's thesis is to analyse how children are recruited and abused as soldiers in armed conflicts, and how international humanitarian law protects their rights. The thesis is divided in two main parts, theoretical and empirical. In theoretical part are introduced the most important documents of international humanitarian law and international human rights law, including international governmental and non-governmental organizations which promote these rights. In empirical part, the author focuses on case studies, namely the case of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the case of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The author was not interested in finding similarities in these two cases, but conversely, to point out on the uniqueness of each case. To precise, the thesis is analysing reasons for the recruitment and abuse of children by the LRA and ISIS, and the legal responsibility of both groups. The author of this thesis chose as a methodology an instrumental case study which is useful for providing a general understanding of a phenomenon by using a particular case. In addition, this methodology is convenient for interpretation of legal documents, and two selected cases serve as instruments for interpreting the recruitment and abuse of children in armed conflicts. The...
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Personal view of a child on experienced sexual abusing and its social consequences - analysis of monografy
LENDLEROVÁ, Denisa
The Master thesis entitled as "The Personal View of a Child on Sexual abuse and Its Social Impact" is a research work dealing with the analysis of the monograph "The Spider Games" by Zuzana S. The main aim of the work is to find out what social impact sexual abuse had on the author's life. The research was conducted as a qualitative investigation based on an anchored theory using a monograph analysis as a data acquisition technique. The Student has used the individual case studying method. The results showed that a sexual abuse had an impact on the author's life in all aspects. The sexual abuse has influenced the most the partner's relationships, the relationships in her family, the author's health, author's self-concept, and her sexuality. The work could be beneficial for the general public interested in this problematic, because it provides theoretical basics and refers to the direct resources. Furthermore, we can see the beneficial possibility of this work, to carry out a more extensive research to investigate the theoretical claims. The thesis can be useful for workers in helping professions, as to understand the victims of sexual abuse.
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Is the child pornography a substitute or a complement for child intercourse?
Hradečná, Anna ; Bartoň, Petr (advisor) ; Mirvald, Michal (referee)
This thesis analyzes the change in quantity demanded of sexual intercourse with minors in dependence on the cost of child pornography. Using this method it examines the type of the good, whether it is a substitute or a complement. Usage possibilities are discussed for child pornography as a complement or a substitute for child intercourse. Thereafter, regression analysis using first-differences and fixed-effects methods follows, which confirms inverse relationship between quantity demanded of sexual intercourse with minors and the cost of child pornography finding child pornography being a substitute for the demand for underage intercourse. This regression analysis is conducted based on the data from the years 2001-2008 from the USA and from the Czech Republic by using internet development as an proxy variable to measure the decline in the cost of child pornography. USA's proxy being assigned IP addresses. As an instrument IP address are used in the USA, and number of households with the internet accession Czech Republic. Estimated results served as a basis for formulating suggestions as to how to lower the number of sexual violence victims. The recommendation is reducing repression for holding child pornography.
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