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Reproducing Life in Conditions of Abandonment in Oceania

Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 2022
Despite technical and legal innovations for certain groups’ reproduction, many people’s reproductive concerns and choices remain disparaged or unsupported. We call this assemblage ‘reproductive abandonment’ and present aspects of these conditions in this
J. Munro, Alexandra Widmer
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Abandonment/decommissioning under Nigerian legal regimes: A comparative analysis

Environmental Law Review, 2021
The overall objective of this article is to analyse critically the legal instruments that regulate decommissioning of onshore and offshore platforms in the Nigerian Petroleum Industry vis-à-vis other jurisdictions such as The United States of America (USA) and United Kingdom (UK) with a view to making requisite recommendations for improvement in the ...
Brian F.I. Anyatang, Bassey E. Kooffreh
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Against Abandonment Activist-Humanitarian Responses to LGBT Refugees in Athens and Beirut

, 2020
This article compares lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) ‘activist-humanitarianism’ in Beirut and Athens. In both locations, ‘out’ or ‘outed’ refugees endure a unique combination of structural and physical violence.
Al Reda, Philip Proudfoot
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Changing nature and emerging patterns of domestic violence in global contexts: Dowry abuse and the transnational abandonment of wives in India

Women's Studies: International Forum, 2018
This paper argues for the need to understand dowry-related abuse through a lens that focuses not only on micro-and meso-level gendered socio-cultural milieus and economic norms, but also on macro-level formal-legal structures and global power asymmetries.
S. Anitha, Harshita Yalamarty, Anupama Roy   +2 more
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Assessing Drifting Fish Aggregating Device (dFAD) Abandonment under International Marine Pollution Law

Transnational Environmental Law
This article asks whether the abandonment of drifting fish aggregating devices (dFADs) is illegal under international marine pollution law. To answer this question, it provides a brief overview of the general international legal framework for the ...
Valentin Schatz
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Abandonment (Field Decommissioning): The Legal Requirements

Offshore Technology Conference, 1994
Abstract The main areas to be considered in relation to the abandonment of offshore installations are:-the legal requirements to be imposed in relation to abandonment. This will include consideration of English, Norwegian and Dutch law as well as international law;how licensees may protect themselves against joint ...
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The influence of religion on the refusal of legal abortion among brazilian women with pregnancy resulting from sexual violence

Journal of Human Growth and Development
Backgroung: Restrictive Brazilian legislation allows abortion in exceptional cases, such as pregnancy resulting from a sexual crime. However, little is known about women who give up on having an abortion after receiving approval for the procedure ...
Renata Macedo Martins Pimentel, Hugo Macedo Júnior, R. D. Souza e Silva, S. Andreoni, J. Drezett   +4 more
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Approaches to Addressing Pediatric Cancer Treatment Refusal Beyond Legal Action

Pediatric Blood & Cancer
Parental refusal and abandonment of recommended treatment in pediatric oncology can have significant consequences for patients and cause moral and emotional distress for clinicians.
Amy E Caruso Brown, Laura M Beskow, Daniel J. Benedetti   +2 more
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Evidentiary function of the provisions on the form of wills in the contemporary succession law: is the complete abandonment of formalism possible?

, 2020
In succession law, the formalism of legal acts has grown to its limits. There is a rule in all democratic legal systems according to which only a will created in accordance with the framework set by the legislator can cause legal effects.
M. Załucki
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Legal Involvement in Pediatric Cancer Treatment Refusal: A Qualitative Study.

Pediatrics
OBJECTIVES To characterize the spectrum of legal options considered in cases of treatment refusal, nonadherence, and abandonment (TRNA); clinicians' thought processes regarding legal intervention; and perceived consequences of legal involvement ...
Amy E Caruso Brown, Laura M Beskow, Daniel J. Benedetti   +2 more
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