Informal networks and interstitial arenas of power in the making of civil society law in Serbia [PDF]
Sociologija, 2015 This paper adopts an anthropological perspective on law to examine the social processes surrounding the making of a set of recent civil society laws in Serbia.
Mikuš Marek
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Civil society and international governance: the role of non-state actors in the EU, Africa, Asia and Middle East [PDF]
, 2011 Structures and processes occurring within and between states are no longer the only – or even the most important - determinants of those political, economic and social developments and dynamics that shape the modern world.
Armstrong, David +11 more
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Nothing to See Here: Researching Non‐Recent Child Abuse in Schools and the Politics of Silence
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While institutions, including schools, have responsibilities to protect children from harm, responses to instances of child sexual abuse have often exhibited avoidance and denial. Recent public inquiries in Australia revealed that some institutions, particularly in the Catholic sector, employed a deliberate strategy of silence which was used ...
John Crowley +2 more
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The Role of Civil Society in Mobilizing Human Rights Struggles for Essential Medicines: A Critique from HIV/AIDS to COVID-19 [PDF]
Health and Human Rights, 2020 In this paper, we explore the strategies utilized by civil society organizations to improve access to medicines during the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 health crises.
Sharifah Sekalala, Belinda Rawson
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Pillars for Progress on the Right to Health: Harnessing the Potential of Human Rights Through a Framework Convention on Global Health [PDF]
, 2012 Ever more constitutions incorporate the right to health, courts continue to expand their right to health jurisprudence, and communities and civil society increasingly turn to the right to health in their advocacy.
Friedman, Eric A., Gostin, Lawrence O.
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Civil society participation in global governance: Insights from climate politics [PDF]
, 2013 A rather unique feature of global climate negotiations is that most governments allow representatives of civil society organisations to be part of their national delegation.
Bernauer, Thomas +2 more
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Australia's Migration Strategy: An Effective Response to Migrant Worker Exploitation?
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A series of publicised migrant worker injuries and deaths has drawn attention to the issue of migrant worker exploitation (MWE) in Australia. In response, the Australian Government has included ‘Tackling Worker Exploitation’ as a key area of its Migration Strategy which it introduced in 2023. However, it is unclear how effective the Strategy’s
Evelyn Dowling, Alexandra Ridgway
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Goals for the rich: Indispensable for a universal post-2015 agenda [PDF]
The paper deals with the question of how a fair sharing of costs, responsibilities and opportunities among and within countries can be achieved in formulating and implementing a post-2015 sustainability agenda.
Civil Society Reflection Group on Global Development Perspectives
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Australia, governments fund Community Legal Centres (CLCs) as part of the legal assistance sector (LAS) to meet the ‘legal needs’ of people experiencing disadvantage who cannot afford private legal services. Persistent unmet demand for CLCs is well‐documented. As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in private legal practice to
Catherine Hastings +2 more
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TO THE IDEA OF GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY
Вестник Донского государственного технического университета, 2018 The role of civil society is changing nowadays under the pressure of global problems, spread of national borders and constantly growing process of informatisation.
E.N. SADOVAIA
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