I januari 2020 bekräftades första fallet av Covid-19 i Sverige, ett virus som klassades som en samhällsfarlig sjukdom. Till följd av smittspridningen begränsades människors rörlighet i samhället vilket i sin tur ledde till större isolering. En konsekvens av isolering är en förhöjd risk för våld i nära relation. Våld i nära relation klassades redan innan Covid-19-pandemin som ett omfattande samhällsproblem och ett allvarligt brott mot de mänskliga rättigheterna. Statistik har visat på en ökning av våld i nära relation under pandemin. Syftet med studien är att undersöka om kvinnojourer och socialtjänst upplevt någon förändring i kontakten med utsatta kvinnor under pandemin samt vilka åtgärder som bör fokuseras på för att motverka att våld i nära relation ökar under en pandemi. En kvalitativ metod användes där sammanlagt sju kvinnojourer och socialarbetare blev intervjuade om sitt arbete med utsatta kvinnor. Resultatet visade en osäkerhet om våld i nära relation har ökat under pandemin, däremot visade resultatet att våldet blivit grövre och mer kontrollerande. Åtgärder för att förhindra att våld i nära relation eskalerar under en samhällskatastrof är att öka tillgängligheten hos de stödorganisationer som hjälper utsatta kvinnor. I dagsläget går det ej att dra generella slutsatser kring hur Covid-19 har påverkat våld i nära relation då det är en pågående pandemi. / In January 2020 the first case of Covid-19 was confirmed in Sweden, a virus that was classified as a socially dangerous disease. Because of the spread of the infection people’s mobility in the society was limited which led to a big isolation. A consequence of isolation is an increased risk of domestic violence. Domestic violence was classified as a great societal problem and a serious crime against human rights even before the Covid-19-pandemic. Statistics have shown an increase of domestic violence during the pandemic. The purpose of this study is to investigate if women's shelters and the social services noticed any changes in the contact with women exposed to domestic violence during the pandemic, as well as what measures that should be taken to prevent an increase in domestic violence during the pandemic. A qualitative method was used with a total of 7 women’s shelters and social services that were interviewed about their work with women exposed to domestic violence. The result showed an uncertainty if domestic violence had increased during the pandemic, it did however show that the violence had become grosser and more controlling. Measures to prevent domestic violence escalating in a social disaster is to increase the availability of the support organizations that are helping vulnerable women. It is not possible to draw any general conclusion about how Covid-19 has affected domestic violence at this point, as it is still an ongoing pandemic.

[pt] Este trabalho apresenta a constituição histórica dos regimes de proteção aos refugiados em suas três esferas - global, regional e nacional -, assumindo sua complementariedade na consolidação da proteção aos deslocamentos forçados. Partindo de uma pressuposição construtivista, esta abordagem apresentará os marcos de proteção ao refúgio como construtos históricos fomentados dentro de interações sociais e que estão em fluxo contínuo de especificação sobre os novos carecimentos humanos. Nessa perspectiva construtivista que integra abordagens interdisciplinares para os estudos internacionais, será empregado o vocábulo regime em relação às construções de proteção, com normativas, princípios e vias procedimentais em torno da temática do refúgio. Assim, emoldurado por uma estrutura cronológica, a pesquisa começará da esfera mais ampla da Convenção de 1951, passando pela esfera Regional para culminar no marco de proteção nacional ao refugiado. Especial enfoque será dado à esfera regional na ampliação da definição de refugiado, que se concretiza na América Latina por meio da Declaração de Cartagena de 1984, a fim de superar os limites eurocêntricos da definição clássica. Tal abordagem da região está conectada ao Brasil que incorpora na lei 9.474/97 a definição clássica internacional e a definição ampliada de graves e generalizadas violações de direitos humanos de Cartagena. Traçado o caminho, esta dissertação apresenta dentro do marco do regime nacional de refúgio a resposta brasileira ao fluxo de venezuelanos por meio da Operação Acolhida. Portanto, analisaremos os eixos da gestão migratória militarizada brasileira, que ocorre com forte proeminência das Forças Armadas. A esse respeito, o trabalho destaca a simultaneidade da lógica humanitária e securitária da resposta nacional, que demonstra ambivalência entre proteger o venezuelano e proteger-se dele. / [en] This work presents a historical constitution of the refugee protection regimes, in their three spheres - global, regional, and national – assuming its complementarity in consolidating the protection to the forced displacement. Starting from a constructivist presupposition, this approach will present the refuge protection framework as historical constructs fostered within social interactions, and which are in a continuous flow of specification over the new human needs. From this constructivist perspective that integrates interdisciplinary approaches to the international studies, the word regime will be used, in relation to the constructions of protection, with norms, principles and procedural pathways, around the theme of refuge. Thus, framed by a chronological structure, this research will start from the broader sphere of the 1951 Convention, passing through the sphere Regional, to culminate in the framework of national refugee protection. Special focus will be given to the regional sphere in expanding the definition of refugee, which takes place in Latin America, through the 1984 Cartagena Declaration, to overcome the Eurocentric limits of the classic definition. This approach of the region is connected to Brazil, which incorporates in law 9.474/97 the international classical definition and the expanded definition of serious and widespread human rights violations in Cartagena. Tracing this path, this dissertation presents, within the framework of the national refugee regime, the Brazilian response to the flow of Venezuelans, through the Operation Welcome. Therefore, we will analyze the axes of this Brazilian militarized migratory management, which occurs with strong prominence of the Armed Forces. Thus, this work highlights the simultaneity of the humanitarian and security logic of this national response, which demonstrates ambivalence between protecting the Venezuelans and protecting ourselves from them.

Text in Afrikaans / In hierdie studie is die noodsaaklike bestuursrol van die rampverpleegster tydens rampoptrede en direk daarna verken, nagevors en beskryf. Haar bevoegdheid om die verskillende rampbestuurstake effektief te kan verrig voor, tydens en na rampe wat buite 'n hospitaal plaasvind, is oak nagegaan. Bestuurstake is geidentifiseer waarmee verpleegsters tydens rampsituasies buite hospitale vertroud behoort te wees. Die navorsingsprojek het deur middel van vraelyste biografiese data ingesamel met betrekking tot die persone wat as rampverpleegsters by Burgerlike Beskerming in Pretoria geregistreer is, met die doel om 'n kursus aan te beveel wat pertinent op hul behoeftes gerig is. Die rampverpleegster se behoefte aan toepaslike verdere opleiding, inoefening of leiding betreffende die ge1dentifiseerde bestuurstake, is bepaal. Dit het geblyk dat opleiding in die meeste take nodig is, en 'n kursus in rampbestuur vir verpleegkundiges is ontwerp / In this study the essential management role of the disaster nurse during disaster action was outlined, researched and described. Her competency to effectively execute disaster relief tasks before, during and after a disaster occurring outside a hospital, was studied. Management tasks were identified which nurses should have mastered regarding disaster situations occurring outside hospital boundaries. Research data were gathered by means of a questiorinaire on the biographic detail of disaster nurses registered with · Civil Defence in Pretoria, in order to recommend a course specifically aimed at fulfilling their requirements. The research project identified requirements of the disaster nurse for appropriate further training, practise and guidance regarding the identified-management tasks. It became evident that training is required in most of the tasks, and a training course for nurses in disaster management was designed / Health Studies / M.A. (Verpleegkunde)

The following text deals with homeless movement in an urban area and is based on a qualitative field research carried out in the capital of the Czech Republic, Prague, from the early November 2014 until the beginning of May 2015. The research of such a sensitive topic as homelessness demands much higher attention, with regard to respecting the ethical rules of the field research and publication of materials gained. Therefore, my thesis deals with the motives of their movement usually based on meeting basic human needs, and with general characteristics of locations they stay in. This information clarify why homeless people move in the city without revelation of exact maps of their location, because this may endanger my informants.

This thesis examines the desire and efforts to 'do something' about what is variously called 'modern slavery' or 'human trafficking'. Neoabolitionist efforts to fight such phenomena are typically wedded to a simplistic and essentialist ontology, unaware of or rejecting their own performativity. The thesis is not about slavery: it is about the ethico-political problem of responsibility and hospitality toward the other in the context of contemporary anti-slavery. What constitutes an ethical response to modern slavery? I explore the often violent effects of particular answers to this question but ultimately argue that the focus on doing something (and knowing it) threatens the very possibility of hospitality - of an ethical response. Through a conceptual vocabulary of 'scenes' I explore the performative interrelation of ontology and ethics. It is intended to help resist the metaphysical seductions of ontology and moral urgency. Scenes bundle specific ontologies, frames, conjured histories and futures, roles and narrative structures, distributions of concern, desire and enjoyment. Response begins with the discursive and affective co-constitution of the self, the one to whom we respond, and the scene in which it takes place. Scene-specific forms of responsibility can operate as a defence against the full force of responsibility to the other. Chapters 1 and 2 develop the notion of scenes and explore how neoabolitionism sets its scenes and locates favoured solutions. The remaining chapters explore those solution areas. Chapter 3 looks at how a US movement against 'sex trafficking' in internet advertising reproduces a Manichean world of simplicity by a game of Whac-A-Mole with websites, ritualistic repetition of baseless 'facts', silencing of sex workers, and aggressive demonization of those who disagree or argue for greater complexity; Chapters 4 and 5 draw on time I spent in San Francisco with two very different organisations. One, Not For Sale, makes a product of experiencing neoabolitionism, joining together charity, capitalism, consumer enjoyment, technology and the excitement of a movement of 'true believers', producing innovative approaches but in the process reinforcing problematic gendered and colonial stereotypes. The other, Anti-trafficking Collaborative of the Bay Area, works quietly and tactically in a messy immigration system, aware of the political and performative nature of their work. They actively take responsibility for their own preconceptions and desires to ground a profoundly hospitable client-centred approach avoiding many pitfalls identified in earlier chapters. The thesis has a performative element woven through it - the ethos of the work is one of unsettling both existing practices and literatures, and the writer and reader. The concluding chapter explores the impossibility of hospitality, its interrelation with juridical subjectivity and the ethics demanding and giving accounts in light of the preceding chapters, suggesting a performative approach toward the other is possible.

Ontario’s current regulatory approach to low-income housing lies between two primary challenges: the human right to housing, and political/fiscal constraints. This thesis draws on legal theory and economic analysis of law to articulate the proper goals of housing access policy. A structural theory is proposed to explain the normative relationship between efficiency, communitarianism and justice in housing. An array of regulatory options are compared and considered in light of the features that characterize Ontario’s low-income rental housing markets. This analysis favours demand-side housing subsidies to low-income households, combined with supply-side tax expenditures to improve elasticity in the low-income rental market. Further reform of rent and covenant controls, social and affordable housing supply, and land use planning is recommended to ensure an efficient residential tenancy market. These reforms are offered as a framework for the implementation of the human right to housing in Ontario.

Ontario’s current regulatory approach to low-income housing lies between two primary challenges: the human right to housing, and political/fiscal constraints. This thesis draws on legal theory and economic analysis of law to articulate the proper goals of housing access policy. A structural theory is proposed to explain the normative relationship between efficiency, communitarianism and justice in housing. An array of regulatory options are compared and considered in light of the features that characterize Ontario’s low-income rental housing markets. This analysis favours demand-side housing subsidies to low-income households, combined with supply-side tax expenditures to improve elasticity in the low-income rental market. Further reform of rent and covenant controls, social and affordable housing supply, and land use planning is recommended to ensure an efficient residential tenancy market. These reforms are offered as a framework for the implementation of the human right to housing in Ontario.

Systems-level homelessness report cards are an intricate part of managing and resolving homelessness within a community. Homelessness report cards can be used to both educate communities around the complexities of homelessness and capture pertinent data required to formulate evidence-based strategies towards ending (rather than managing) homelessness. The process of developing and implementing homelessness report cards can be fraught with challenges relating to: limited resources; fragmented information; and political roadblocks. To help reduce the potential of these roadblocks, a system-level Homelessness Outcome Reporting Normative framework (the “HORN Framework”) was developed. The HORN Framework is based on a literature review and synthesis of the best-practice, systems-level homelessness report card development and implementation methods. The framework was then tested in a case study with the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness (GVCEH), through the creation of their 2010 Greater Victoria Homelessness Report Card. The framework and case study results are presented in this thesis.

This thesis deals with examining the possibility of revitalizing the watercourse Osoblaha. It flows through the cadastral territories of municipalities Bohušov, Osoblaha and Kašnice u Bohušova. In this thesis there will be proposed a measure to increase biodiversity of the flow. The trough will be loosened in appropriate segments, oxbow lakes and ponds will be designed. Also the bank shelters for fish stock will be suggested. For slope stabilization will be used reinforcement of fresh willow fences. Impermeable shoots or disintegrating oxbow lakes will be projected in the straight sections of the flow.

Text in Afrikaans / In hierdie studie is die noodsaaklike bestuursrol van die rampverpleegster tydens rampoptrede en direk daarna verken, nagevors en beskryf. Haar bevoegdheid om die verskillende rampbestuurstake effektief te kan verrig voor, tydens en na rampe wat buite 'n hospitaal plaasvind, is oak nagegaan. Bestuurstake is geidentifiseer waarmee verpleegsters tydens rampsituasies buite hospitale vertroud behoort te wees. Die navorsingsprojek het deur middel van vraelyste biografiese data ingesamel met betrekking tot die persone wat as rampverpleegsters by Burgerlike Beskerming in Pretoria geregistreer is, met die doel om 'n kursus aan te beveel wat pertinent op hul behoeftes gerig is. Die rampverpleegster se behoefte aan toepaslike verdere opleiding, inoefening of leiding betreffende die ge1dentifiseerde bestuurstake, is bepaal. Dit het geblyk dat opleiding in die meeste take nodig is, en 'n kursus in rampbestuur vir verpleegkundiges is ontwerp / In this study the essential management role of the disaster nurse during disaster action was outlined, researched and described. Her competency to effectively execute disaster relief tasks before, during and after a disaster occurring outside a hospital, was studied. Management tasks were identified which nurses should have mastered regarding disaster situations occurring outside hospital boundaries. Research data were gathered by means of a questiorinaire on the biographic detail of disaster nurses registered with · Civil Defence in Pretoria, in order to recommend a course specifically aimed at fulfilling their requirements. The research project identified requirements of the disaster nurse for appropriate further training, practise and guidance regarding the identified-management tasks. It became evident that training is required in most of the tasks, and a training course for nurses in disaster management was designed / Health Studies / M.A. (Verpleegkunde)