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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
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Irreconciliation as practice: resisting impunity and closure in Argentina
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
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Land Trafficking and the Fertile Spaces of Legality
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
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DERECHOS HUMANOS Y DELITOS DE LESA HUMANIDAD
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
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Human rights: has the present economic crisis proven Bentham was right? [PDF]
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
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Seigneurial Pressure: external Constrictions and Stimuli in the Construction of urban collective Identities in 15th century Castile [PDF]
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
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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
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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]
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
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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
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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
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