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The incorporation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights into Taiwan’s domestic law provided death row inmates with the legal basis to submit requests for the President’s mercy ... rendering decisions in support of the Presidents' inaction. The court justifications for these decisions were that the clemency power falls under the executive prerogative, and that it is a political question
to examine the multiple identities of Black women and how such identities determine their representation in socio-cultural and political spaces. The findings from this study show that agency is a major ... ., 2019) . Lightfoot eventually emerged as the winner. Lori Lightfoot’s Black woman identity sets a new tone for the city’s political climate as well as the Black community. It showed a vigorous attempt to
Objective:This article explores the debate of political ideas among the newspapers of the Court of Rio de Janeiro, in the context of the peace negotiations between Argentina, the Empire of Brazil and ... events and certain individuals, reveals that the political debates of the press at the Court concentrated mainly on the strategies and methods of imperial diplomacy, as a way of bringing domestic policy
, but political and economic changes were almost nonexistent. I suggest two possible reasons for this: Venezuelan brotherhoods’ respect for the law, and political caution, which prevented the authorities
has continued to ground anti-trans* activism in the United States. Gender Affirming Healthcare-as-Sterilizing: A Slippery Slope Broader cultural and political discourses around gender and sex/uality ... with trans* identities, but KP-0401 takes one step further to implicate not just youth, but their parents, into this “drift” and the negative affects it contains (p. 65). The political/social/legal
the Revolution allows us to account for the colonial roots of the anti-slavery sensibility that would crystalize as a republican political proposition after 1808. Restrepo recognized in an early stage ... juridical doctrine on the origins of slavery existed, and maintained that slaves possessed human dignity. With his background in modern philosophy and drawing on his knowledge of the Latin canon, Castilian
Objective:This article studies the representation of the political subject in the ideology of the Partido Comunista de Colombia (PCC) before and after the anti-fascist turn of the Frente Popular ... documentary corpus, is interested in the ideological scaffolding of the PCC and understands the change in the representation of the political subject as an alteration of the internal conceptual order
justice. First, beginning with the transition to democracy, this study traces shifts in opportunity structures including political and institutional changes; key judicial decisions as well as legal reforms ... interruption of pregnancy, “IVE”, for its acronym in Spanish), and multi-party collaboration, in a highly polarized political arena, had 1. See Hernán Gullco, One Year of the IVE (Voluntary Interruption of
ARTICLE REFORMING THE APPROACH TO POLITICAL OPINION IN THE REFUGEES CONVENTION Brienna Bagaric * ABSTRACT The number of displaced persons in the world is at an unprecedented high. There are more than ... fear of persecution for one of five very specific reasons. These reasons are race, ethnicity, particular social group, religion and political opinion. If these grounds are interpreted narrowly it
for and against the impositions of limits to freedom of the press. The article debates some issues surrounding the criminalization of freedom of expression in the midst of social and political tensions ... that an explanation for a historical investigation of the law can not only consider the urge of political-electoral disputes, but the constitution of legal mechanism to restrain the critical press in
PiS came back to power in 2015, their leaders understood that bringing the judicial system under political control was crucial to the success of their other policy aims.22 PiS?s philosophy and policy ... philosophy and both, to some degree, included a broad spectrum of political interests from right, left, labor, and so on.60 In 2005, the PiS party candidates received a quarter of the vote, sufficient for a
Objective:This article analyzes the political discourse of the Sociedad Unión de Artesanos (1866-1868). It delves into how this association and its members understood and disseminated notions and ... considers the period a moment of political inactivity in the history of the artisan movement. The study challenges this assumption by showing that artisans at the time were politically active and attempted
One of the most emblematic cases of violence in recent Colombian history is the event known as the massacre of Bojayá, which took place on 2 May 2002. The article traces, documents, and periodizes the place of the massacre of Bojayá in the narrative created by the Presidency of the Republic between May 2002 and May 2017. On the basis of the analysis of the documentation gathered...
, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, and are ultimately seeking refugee status from a receiving State.1 Generally, asylum seekers face an 1. See Anne P ... significant efforts to do so.27 Finally, the “Special Cases” categorization is an unofficial raking for States experiencing ongoing political instability.28 21. See id. at 77–607 (“Country Narratives”). 22
institutional discourse are the key elements to understand its social acceptance and political protection. At the same time, it evidences how, with its museography, this space contributes to consolidate a
FORDHAM INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL [Vol. Islamic-Socio-Political Activism? Nina Crimm 0 0 St. John's University School of Law Copyright c 2013 by the authors. Fordham International Law Journal is ... religious rituals and practices in countries of varying levels of economic development, political structures, and religious traditions including those of North America, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.1
law and Puerto Rico's commonwealth status. Part II provides background information on the political status debate in Puerto Rico and focuses on three key issues that arise in the context of self ... Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress). http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ilj Resolving Puerto Rico’s Political Status Lani E. Medina In the case of Puerto Rico, the exercise of self-determination has raised, and
This Article is broken into five sections. Part I defines political risk. Part II provides a brief review of the academic literature showing the work that has been done in this area of law. Part III ... that has been done in this area of law. Part III argues that there have indeed been oscillations in the degree of political investment risk in the world and explains that investment risks rise when
., & S. Kahn (Eds.). Activism and rhetoric: Theories and contexts for political engagement (pp. 38-48). Routledge. Pelias, R. J. (2013). Writing autoethnography: The personal, poetic, and performative as ... political engagement (pp. 159 - 172 ). Routledge. https://doi. org/10.4324/9781315144535 Bell , L. A. ( 2019 ). Storytelling for social justice: Connecting narrative and the arts in antiracist teaching (2nd
instructional communication and education researchers investigate methods of improving teaching and educational systems at large, many of these investigations neglect to attend to the socio-political context of ... their sexualities in educational spaces. Importantly, however, factors constraining one’s ability to engage in strategic self-disclosure are highly dependent on both socio-political context and the
