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Unwelcome Expectancy: How Pregnancy Shapes Employment Opportunities in Mexico

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using the simulated client technique, this study examines pregnancy discrimination in hiring processes and shows how pregnancy hinders women's employment opportunities as a combined effect of gender biases and institutional incentives that discourage the hiring of pregnant women.
Sonia M. Frías
wiley   +1 more source

Governing Through Criminal Selectivity and Lawfare: Non‐Democratic Politics to Entrench Authoritarian Populist Imagination

open access: yesInternational Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Across much of the Global South and increasingly in the Global North, authoritarian populist imagination blurs boundaries between legality and illegality, weaponising law to suppress dissent while tolerating violence by allied actors. This imagination establishes a symbolic boundary mechanism between punitive/eliminative violence for political
Erman Örsan Yetiş
wiley   +1 more source

The stormy waters of the International Criminal Court: universal fight against impunity or liberal universalization? Mateus Kowalsky Rabkin,

open access: yes, 2014
The universalistic dimension of the International Criminal Court's (ICC) nature and function is clear. Yet, this dimension must be thoroughly defined. We must ask 'what universalism'?
Janus Net   +5 more
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The politics of impunity: a study of journalists’ experiential accounts of impunity in Bulgaria, Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Mexico and Pakistan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Definitions of impunity regarding crimes against journalists have thus far been too narrow. Therefore we propose a new approach to understanding impunity as also being grounded in journalists’ lived reality and perceptions to better understand the ...
Pukallus, S.   +3 more
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IMPUNITY AND DEMOCRATIC QUALITY IN LATIN AMERICA (2015-2021): PATTERNS OF CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE

open access: yesJournal of International Studies
In 2019, a wave of protests broke out in many countries in the Latin American region. It started in Chile and spread to Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia.
Bruno Macciotta Pulisci, Pablo Biderbost
doaj   +1 more source

Crimes environnementaux : si la pollution de l’eau tue… malheureusement elle rapporte !

open access: yesCriminologie, 2016
Qualifier la pollution de l’eau de crime peut sembler à première vue relever du sens commun et une telle pollution est déjà considérée comme un crime dans certains pays, à certaines conditions.
Sylvie Paquerot, M.A., M. LL., Ph. D
doaj   +1 more source

Competing Visions of Democracy in EU Disinformation Governance: Framing the Digital Services Act in the European Parliament

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Disinformation has become a contentious issue within the European Union (EU) and in transatlantic relations, raising fundamental questions about how democratic societies should regulate online content. This article investigates how competing democratic visions shape European Parliamentary debates on the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Linus Wahlberg, Sara Wissén
wiley   +1 more source

The Lubanga verdict: a milestone in the fight against impunity? Egmont Commentary, 22 March 2012

open access: yes, 2012
It took the International Criminal Court (ICC) about six years to come to a conclusion in the case against Thomas Lubanga, a Congolese militia leader who was a leading figure in the Ituri conflict.
Vlassenroot, Koen
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Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

International criminal justice and Southeast Asia: Approaches to ending impunity for mass atrocities

open access: yes, 2016
Nearly 15 years after entry into force, the UN Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court has 124 state parties, meaning that nearly two-thirds of states have joined this initiative to end impunity for the worst atrocities.
Sperfeldt, C, Palmer, E
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