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Developing World Bioethics, Volume 23, Issue 2, Page 109-121, June 2023., 2023 Abstract South Africa has an abortion law which codifies the broad themes of reproductive rights set out in the Constitution of South Africa, other laws and national guidelines. Certain wording of the conditions in the Choice Act for abortion after 20 weeks' gestation, are open to interpretation, being ‘severe malformation of the fetus’ and ‘risk of ...
Anita Kleinsmidt +2 more
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European Law Journal, Volume 27, Issue 4-6, Page 441-462, November 2021., 2021 Abstract This article looks at how and why the EU has been/can be endowed with powers over criminal matters, within the framework of the theory of jurisdiction. It examines the extent to which the specific responsibility of the EU for the protection of certain legal interests justifies the establishment of a (peripheral) jurisdiction. Member States (MS)
Pedro Caeiro
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Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 184-196, July 2021., 2021 Abstract The recognition of land title and demarcation of indigenous peoples’ ancestral lands and the guarantee of the rights of consultation and free, prior and informed consent in the context of large infrastructure projects represent some of the major challenges for indigenous peoples and communities in the Amazon States.
Ricardo Pereira
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The Death Penalty and Historical Change in Spain
Journal of Historical Sociology, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 305-322, June 2021., 2021 Abstract This article studies the long duration of the death penalty in Spain until its abolition in the Constitution of 1978. After analysing the plurality of theoretical approaches and possibilities offered by archival sources and specialised historiography (particularly those produced by specialists in the history of law and social history), I ...
Pedro Oliver Olmo
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Decolonising Oral History: A Conversation
History, Volume 106, Issue 370, Page 265-281, March 2021., 2021 Abstract In late 2019, a team of researchers and activists from Ecuador and the UK began a new oral history project, accompanying Afro‐Ecuadorian women living in the province of Esmeraldas, as they interrogated and articulated their history and heritage.
HILARY FRANCIS +5 more
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Journal of Law and Society, Volume 47, Issue S1, Page S54-S73, October 2020., 2020 Abstract The negative and corrosive impacts of corruption in the fields of economics, politics, and law are widely discussed. Less understood are the potentially negative impacts of anti‐corruption struggles and strategies themselves. This article presents a case study of Brazil's ‘Car Wash’ (‘Lava Jato’) scandal from a legal and political perspective.
GEORGE MÉSZÁROS
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Revista de Direito Sanitário, 2002 Seleção de decisões judiciais sobre o direito à saúde da América Latina.
Revista de Direito Sanitário
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Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 477-486, July 2025.ABSTRACT This article discusses the intense struggles over family laws and policies in the early‐twentieth century, culminating with the establishment of the Estado Novo dictatorship of 1937–1945. It then analyses letters from ordinary citizens who ask President Getúlio for help in the aftermath of separation from a spouse or consensual partner.
Sueann Caulfield
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Campbell Systematic Reviews, Volume 11, Issue 1, Page 1-176, 2015., 2015 This Campbell systematic review examines why the implementation of preventive interventions to reduce youth involvement in gangs and gang crime may fail or succeed low and middle‐income countries. The review summarises findings from four studies conducted in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Angela Higginson +5 more
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