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Embracing the Language of Human Rights: International Women's Organisations, Feminism and Campaigns Against the Marriage Bar, c.1919–1960

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 780-794, October 2023., 2023
Abstract This article considers four international women's organisations – the International Council of Women, the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship, the International Federation of University Women and the Open Door International – and their campaigns for the right of married women to undertake paid work.
Helen Glew
wiley   +1 more source

Irreconciliation as practice: resisting impunity and closure in Argentina

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue S1, Page 103-117, April 2022., 2022
Abstract In Argentina, irreconciliation is created through everyday practices of vigilance against closure and collective struggles against impunity. In this essay, I show how over several decades since the fall of the dictatorial regime (1976‐83), human rights activists and laypeople have devised ways to keep the past alive while attending to ...
Noa Vaisman
wiley   +1 more source

Land Trafficking and the Fertile Spaces of Legality

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 21-38, January 2021., 2021
Abstract Land trafficking, responsible for the unprecedented rate of urbanization in many Latin American cities, is often conceptualized through corruption as ‘abuses of public office for private gain’. While those involved in the practice rely at times on violence and illegality, their repertoire is sophisticated, allowing them to move in and out of ...
Rita Lambert
wiley   +1 more source

DERECHOS HUMANOS Y DELITOS DE LESA HUMANIDAD

open access: yesRevista de Derecho Público, 2018
The 1948 Human Rights Declarations, both the American and the Universal, recognized the rights to life, freedom and security, prohibited torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatments or punishment, and required an effective remedy against acts
Alicia Castro
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Human rights: has the present economic crisis proven Bentham was right? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In recent years several southern European countries have become submerged by an economic crisis which has led to controversial legal changes. Moreover, in countries such as Portugal or Spain, people’s rights, once considered well established and ...
Calheiros, Maria Clara
core   +1 more source

Seigneurial Pressure: external Constrictions and Stimuli in the Construction of urban collective Identities in 15th century Castile [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Seigneurial pressure, exerted on cities and towns and their municipal jurisdictions by the nobility, constituted one of the dominant traits of Castilian politics in the 15th century.
Jara, José Antonio
core   +3 more sources

Tempo que Passa, tempo que Fica: O Prescritível e o Imprescritível como Expressões de Temporalidades na História Constitucional Brasileira

open access: yes, 2016
Time as a historical and social construction suggests the human experience, revealing identities, cultures and sociability. We are led to reflect on the temporal dimensions that arise in the law in relation to history, memory and oblivion.
L. F. Oliveira
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The on-going case: getting around amnesty laws by seeking justice for the disappeared. O contorno da lei da anistia na busca de justiça: uma comparação das abordagens no Brasil e no Chile sobre os desaparecidos. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Internationally the amnesty laws of Chile and Brazil have been deemed invalid, but they they have been upheld locally. This paper seeks to compare the approaches in each country to use the disappeared to challenge the amnesty legislation and also sketch ...
CORREA, Paulo Gustavo Pellegrino   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

La media prescripción frente al delito de desaparición forzada de personas. ¿Incumplimiento de la normativa internacional en materia de crímenes de lesa humanidad?

open access: yesRevista Direito GV
El presente trabajo se presenta como un estudio del tratamiento de la media prescripción aplicada a los crímenes de desaparición forzada de personas. Los autores abordan la problemática desde una perspectiva jurídica e histórica.
Isabel González Ramírez   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Restituição dos bens culturais retirados no contexto do colonialismo: instrumento de desenvolvimento e de diálogo intercultural

open access: yes, 2014
Resumo Este artigo trata da restituicao dos bens culturais retirados no contexto do colonialismo, da constituicao do regime internacional de protecao e restituicao do patrimonio cultural, seus principios, limites e possibilidades.
C. Serrano
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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