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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
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
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
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
, 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
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
political debate. Surveys revealed that viewing the content increased concern and that portrayals of local impacts left viewers feeling motivated to get involved (Banchero et al., 2021) . The above ... /su14105774 Bieniek-Tobasco , A. , Rimal , R. N. , McCormick , S. , & Harrington , C. B. ( 2020 ). The power of being transported: Efficacy beliefs, risk perceptions, and political affiliation in the context of
organization was not formed to fight for workers’ rights but for political reasons.34 Labor issues in all five complaints were embedded in human rights to the CFA’s eyes, which were typically narrated as a ... , and those who had lost their jobs due to their employer’s financial woes, shall be free to form trade unions of their own choosing, conduct political activities to promote social objectives, and enjoy
rights are inextricably bound up in both personal choice and the restrictions of the law, it follows that opinion will likely be shaped by a combination of political holdings, contemporary discourses, and ... , opinions on reproductive rights among this group that are not inferred from political election outcomes are harder to find. One aim of this study is to listen critically to women as they discuss the
While there seems to be a consensus that political parties remain the sine qua non of western democracies, the question of under which conditions political parties could be dissolved has also been ... member of the Council of Europe suggests there are three categories of political parties faced with the prospect of dissolution. Part I of this Article describes the first category, the political parties
tried to capture the character of the German political-legal system as it had developed since the seventeenth century.9 As the subtitle of The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship ... Nazi Germany’s central features from our vantage point. supporting the Nazis, such as Carl Schmitt and Ernst Rudolf Huber.10 In a Dual State, Fraenkel argues, it is assumed that the “political sphere
offence.”26 But the philosophy of law that helped sustain and legitimize the slave trade for centuries remains central to jurisprudence regarding reparations THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF SLAVERY IN THE AMERICAS ... trafficking today, chattel slavery has its genesis in internecine rivalry, religious and political conflict, and environmental degradation.29 Chattel slavery in the 27. Id. (“The forced labour definition
of LGBT Youth , 15 ( 2 ), 106 - 131 . https://doi.org/10.1080/19361653. 2018 .1429979 Harding , S. ( 2004 ). A socially relevant philosophy of science? Resources from standpoint theory's
of doing so, other countries used these cases for ideological and political posturing and continued to do so as of the end of 2008. This Note will review Kosovo and South Ossetia and attempt to take ... HANSE L. REV. 73, 75 (noting that Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov-Lenin invoked self-determination, based on socialist political philosophy and "wedded the right of self-determination to the right to secession
