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Impunity in Post-authoritarian Brazil: The Supreme Court’s Recent Verdict on the Amnesty Law
European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2011 While numerous countries in post-authoritarian South America have annulled Amnesty Laws issued under authoritarian rule and punished officials involved in repressive organs, Brazil continues to favour impunity.
Nina Schneider
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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EDITORIAL: Killing the messenger
Pacific Journalism Review, 2018 The statistics globally are chilling. And the Asia-Pacific region bears the brunt of the killing of journalists with impunity disproportionately. Revelations in research published in this edition of Pacific Journalism Review on the trauma experienced by ...
David Robie
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The Carceral Shadow: Criminal Justice as a Determinant of Health and Challenges for Policymakers
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points The criminal justice system functions as a primary social determinant of health in the United States, generating disproportionate physical, psychological, and chronic health burdens on Black communities and other marginalized groups. Policing structural barriers—including qualified immunity, police union contracts, and municipal financing
RASHAWN RAY, KEON GILBERT
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Introduction : is there a fight against impunity in the EU legal system?
, 2020 Luisa Marin Stefano Montaldo Impunity is a deep-rooted and recurring concern for criminal law, which questions the actual capacity of a penal system to avoid a crime going unpunished and to more generally secure sound and effective administration of ...
Luisa Marin +3 more
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Combating Impunity of Crimes against Press Freedom [PDF]
, 2014 Worried by the rising incidence of arrests, detention, jail, harassment and even murder of journalists across the world, all of which are crimes against press freedom, this paper takes a look at the reasons for the unpunished offences against press men ...
Nsereka, Barigbon Gbara +1 more
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The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural barometers of success, the country was entering a newly ‘postfeminist’ era.
Sarah Crook
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Does the Rule of Law Require the Separation of Powers?
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.The separation of powers is an enigmatic political ideal, particularly in the context of the modern administrative state, in which administrative officials routinely perform a combination of legislative, judicial, and executive functions. In this article we reexamine this ideal by interrogating Adrian Vermeule's provocative claim that the separation of
Dimitrios Kyritsis, Matthew Lewans
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Impunity and Judicial Independence
, 2004 The last few years have seen some encouraging developments against impunity in the Asian region. Indonesia’s first democratically elected government for decades is addressing violations committed by the previous President Suharto and military commanders.
Southalan, John Lachlan
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Journalism under duress in Asia-Pacific: A decade of resistance
Pacific Journalism Review, 2018 Auckland University of Technology’s Pacific Media Centre marked its tenth anniversary with a wide-ranging public seminar discussing two of the region’s most critical media freedom crises.
David Robie
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