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The nature of human rights [PDF]
Megatrend Revija, 2016 In the first part of the paper, the author points out that, unlike in the past, in our time human rights developed into a fair legal institution, and even a special system. They are formulated and protected both internally and internationally. The second
Krivokapić Boris
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Rethinking legal time: The temporal turn in socio-legal studies
Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2023 This article introduces a temporal approach to law as potentially innovative for socio-legal studies. It argues that bringing a focus on time into legal thought and practice is an important move for decentering the individual subject as conventionally ...
Veronica Pecile
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Philosophy & Public Affairs, 2005 The twentieth century saw a vigorous debate over the nature of rights.\ud Will theorists argued that the function of rights is to allocate domains of\ud freedom. Interest theorists portrayed rights as defenders of well-being.\ud Each side declared its conceptual analysis to be closer to an ordinary\ud understanding of what rights there are, and to an ...
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Natural law and the rights of nature – in search of more effective environmental protection
Przegląd Prawniczy Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza, 2023 The paper discusses innovative legal regulations that may contribute to increasing standards ofenvironmental protection. In the face of increasing nature degradation and climate change, current protection measures are insufficient.
Samanta Kowalska
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Revista Iberoamericana de Estudios de Desarrollo, 2023 In these times when we experience, first-hand, the limits of our existence, COVID-19 has proved to be another of the multiple consequences of the human footprint on the Earth ecosystem.
Susana Borràs-Pentinat
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For the Rights of Nature [PDF]
Mouvements, 2012 La revendication de « droits de la Nature » émerge dans l’espace international, dans le contexte de Rio+ 20. Fin 2011 la Bolivie a fait une proposition portant explicitement ce titre, et situant sa contribution dans la droite ligne de textes passés : la Charte mondiale pour la nature (1982), la Déclaration de Rio (1992), la Charte de la Terre (2000) et
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Revista Colombiana de Bioética, 2018 This paper is a review of international and national case law aimed at presenting and evaluating the considerations within Colombian rulings that have opened a path toward the recognition of new subjects of rights, and of foreign rulings used as ...
Alejandra Molano Bustacara +1 more
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Joni Adamson, Professor, Department of English, Arizona State University
Panorama, 2019 Today my ecocritical praxis continues to focus on literature of environmental justice and also involves biosemiotics, which is the study of qualitative semiotic or communicative capabilities that are considered to exist in a variety of nonhuman life ...
Joni Adamson
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Deusto Journal of Human Rights, 2019 This article critically addresses the crucial aspects for understanding the rights of nature as a resistance platform for indigenous peoples in Ecuador. By basing my arguments in a post-colonial approach to human rights and the concept of coloniality of ...
Juan José Guzmán
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Universal Human Rights? Historical and Contemporary Comments
Politeja, 2021 The concept of human rights, supposedly of universal importance, is usually derived from the tradition referred to as “Western”. Although the “classic approaches” – Greek, Roman and Christian, refer to the norms of natural law, making them the basis or ...
Bogdan Szlachta
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