Continuing the Legacy

Vienna Master of Arts in Human Rights.
Selected Theses. Generation 2. Class of 2015

All Human Rights for All
Band 5

Founded in 2012, the Vienna Master of Arts in Human Rights pioneered an interdisciplinary programme for human rights practitioners by uniting the disciplines of history, political science, sociology, media sciences, law, psychology, philosophy and anthropology.
As is suggested by the title of this volume, the second generation of the Vienna Master graduates continued this legacy. Today, they are spread around the world in a diverse range of capacities working on a multitude of projects as inspiring human rights ambassadors. Our students thus form a powerful network - a human rights family - that actively and tirelessly contributes to making the world a better place.
The present volume contains a selection of the best theses of the second generation of the Vienna Master Alumni. They cover a variety of timely human rights issues, ranging from international surrogacy, child statelessness, violence against women and corruption in the health sector to young people´s transition from school to work, women´s access to justice, memorialisation and reconciliation.