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IMPUNITY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
Revue québécoise de droit international, 2023 The laws of punto final and due obedience violate international law as it stands today. Indeed, such laws breach the right to legal recourse and perpetrate impunity. The United Nations is presently drafting a set of principles to struggle against impunity. This “progressive development” of international law is in reaction to a wave of new atrocities in
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Now is NOT the Time for the Columbia FTA [PDF]
, 2011 [Excerpt] The U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement is the wrong trade model at the wrong time. Instead of helping workers here or in Colombia, the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement would reward a country with a history of extreme violence that has utterly
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Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
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No Remedy: Injustice and Constrained Citizenship in Indonesia's Plantation Zone
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This contribution to the special issue examines a constrained version of citizenship in Indonesia's plantation zone. When corporations take hold of village land, residents experience devastating dispossession and a profound sense of injustice, yet they lack effective channels through which to claim rights as citizens or secure remedy from the ...
Tania Murray Li, Pujo Semedi
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Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.Abstract Using the amnesty introduced by the Boris Johnson government designed to protect British army veterans who served in Northern Ireland as a case study, this article examines the intersection between law, politics and the legacy of conflict. The article first offers an account of the amnesty's genesis and traces the evolution and deployment of ...
KIERAN MCEVOY
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ILCEA, 2016 This paper reviews the history of the Uruguayan transitional justice process up to nowadays, focusing on the role that could have been—and should be—played by the Uruguayan judicial branch regarding the management of the crimes of State terrorism.
Mirtha Guianze
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Silence or Death in Mexico's Press: Crime, Violence, and Corruption Are Destroying the Country's Journalism [PDF]
, 2010 Examines the culture of bribery, extortion, and police complicity; murders and kidnappings of journalists; and the resulting self-censorship.
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From agnosis to accidental activism: Infinite regress and the Post Office Scandal
Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the lived experiences of victims/survivors affected by the UK Post Office Scandal, drawing on 28 in‐depth interviews and critical legal analysis. It uses the concept of ‘accidental activism’ to explore how victims, initially isolated and disempowered, became central agents of justice reform.
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how and to what extent violence has become a pivotal tool for conducting business in places integrated into the global value chain. It also explores the roles stakeholders play in silencing workers' resistance within these places.
Shoaib Ahmed
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Bounded Rationality in Bargaining Games: Do Proposers Believe That Responders Reject an Equal Split? [PDF]
Puzzled by the experimental results of the 'impunity game' by Bolton and Zwick (1995) we replicate the game and alter it in a systematic manner. We find that although almost nobody actually rejects an offered equal split in a bargaining game, proposers ...
Ben Greiner
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