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The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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Processual peculiarities of proceedings in cases of corruption offenses [PDF]

, 2010
Йосифович Д.І. Процесуальні особливості провадження в справах про корупційні правопорушення / Д.І. Йосифович // Науковий вісник Львівського державного університету внутрішніх справ. Серія юридична. - 2010. - Випуск 4. – С.
Yosyfovych, D.I., Йосифович, Д.І.   +1 more
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VONIS SANKSI PIDANA TAMBAHAN OLEH HAKIM BERUPA PENGEMBALIAN KERUGIAN KEUANGAN NEGARA OLEH TERPIDANA TINDAK PIDANA KORUPSI DI PENGADILAN NEGERI DENPASAR

Jurnal Magister Hukum Udayana, 2014
Corruption in Indonesia has been so severed and widespread in the community and very alarming, its development continues to increase from year to year, both in number of cases and the amount of state financial losses and in terms of quality.
I Ketut Rai Setiabudhi
doaj   +1 more source

Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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DISCIPLINARY RESPONSIBILITY’S APPLICATION TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES VIOLATING THE ANTI-CORRUPTION LEGISLATION IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

BRICS Law Journal, 2017
This paper considers issues of legal regulation of moral condemnation of municipal officials and the  impact of the recommendations of the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) on the system of  legal regulation of counteraction to Russian ...
HUGO FLAVIER, IRINA CHIKIREVA, KSENIYA IVANOVA   +2 more
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Exemplary Damages as Public Interest Damages: Implications for Rights of Action, Settlement and the Distribution of Awards

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Exemplary damages are commonly understood as public interest awards. This article explores the logical implications of understanding them in this way for a tort claimant's rights of action and settlement, and for the proper distribution of awards. One implication, it suggests, is that settlements, being compromises of public ends, should require court ...
Kit Barker
wiley   +1 more source

Fundamentals of Counteracting Corruption [PDF]

, 2018
The problem of fighting corruption is one of the pressing problems facing modern legal science. The purpose of the discipline "fundamentals of anti – corruption" is to familiarize students with the nature, causes and conditions of corruption behavior ...
Mikhail (Michail) Osipov, Михаил Осипов   +1 more
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Criminal Aspects Specific to Corruption Offenses [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
ABSTRACT: Corruption is one of the main topics of discussion in any field and at any level, representing one of the greatest challenges of the contemporary world. This is present both in poor and developing and developed countries, and the fight to combat it has become a serious problem, especially as the phenomenon expands very rapidly, including ...
openaire   +2 more sources