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      AnthropologyHuman rightAmerican Anthropologist
This paper contributes to the science of crowd dynamics and psychology by examining the social psychological processes related to the relative absence of "hooliganism" at the Finals of the 2004 Union Européenne de Football Association... more
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The elevation of the discourse of human rights in recent times to the status of an ethical lingua franca has fuelled an unruly proliferation of incompatible or often just incredible rights claims. If human rights are not to fall victim to... more
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The massacre of almost 50 Maidan protesters on February 20, 2014 was a turning point in Ukrainian politics and a tipping point in the conflict between the West and Russia over Ukraine. This mass killing of the protesters and the mass... more
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      SociologyCriminologyPolitical SociologyEastern European Studies
Policy decisions at the organizational, corporate, and governmental levels should be more heavily influenced by issues related to well-being—people’s evaluations and feelings about their lives. Domestic policy currently focuses heavily on... more
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This article sets out to show that the popular view of the slave case of James Somersett as epitomising the common law's tenderness for individual liberty is mistaken, and through discussion of that case, this article seeks to shed... more
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Background: Despite the 1991 reforms of the health system in Zambia, mental health is still given low priority. This is evident from the fragmented manner in which mental health services are provided in the country and the limited budget... more
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This article draws on two studies that have used an ethic of care analysis to explore lay, nursing and social work care for people with dementia. It discusses the political as well as the practice application of ethic of care principles... more
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We employed positron emission tomography to examine the functional anatomy of the exploratory-motor aspect of spatial attention. Subjects moved their right hand under nonexploratory (control) versus exploratory (active) conditions.... more
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Education of health professionals over the years has been inadequate in prevention and public health, including the prevention of war and its public health consequences. Now, however, there is a growing movement to educate health... more
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More than a decade after Latin America's most recent turn to democracy, unchecked police violence and torture continue and in some cases have increased. This study examines police killings in 19 Brazilian states from 1994 to 2001... more
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Background  Trafficking in women is a widespread human rights violation commonly associated with poor mental health. Yet, to date, no studies have used psychiatric diagnostic assessment to identify common forms of mental distress among... more
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      Anxiety DisordersMental HealthDepressionAdolescent
The experiences of people living poverty do not feature highly in the academic or professional psychology literature. This paper draws on the stories of two women who have lived poverty all their lives, and will discuss the ways people... more
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pdf [hereinafter TIP REPORT 2007] (discussing Jenny's story from Nigeria to the United States and how she was repeatedly beaten and raped by her employers in the United States). 3. See id. ("[Jenny] thought she would be paid to look after... more
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Many farm workers in South Africa continue to live and work under adverse conditions that are the legacy of apartheid policies. Despite its ocial prohibition, the arrangement by which workers are given alcohol as a bene®t of employment,... more
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Construction may soon begin on the West Seti Hydroelectric Project (WSHP) in the western region of Nepal. The 750megawatt facility, which will produce power primarily for export to India, involves construction of a 195-meter high dam on... more
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In 1984 the Supreme Court held in INS v. Lopez-Mendoza that the exclusionary rule did not ordinarily apply to respondents in immigration proceedings. However, the Court suggested that its opinion about the applicability of the... more
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The number of individual RSD applications received by UNHCR offices worldwide nearly doubled from 1997 to 2001, while UNHCR's RSD operations have been criticized for failing to implement basic standards of procedural fairness. Yet,... more
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Globalization, free trade, and individualization have opened up a worldwide marketplace for trading goods. The fair trade movement and other political consumerist endeavours view consumers as important active holders of responsibility for... more
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Amnesty International welcomes the UK Government’s undertaking to incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) into domestic law, to put human rights at the heart of its foreign policy and to be guided by human rights... more
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This article reassess Rorty’s contribution to human rights theory. It addresses two key questions: (1) Does Rorty sustain his claim that there are no morally relevant transcultural facts? (2) Does Rorty’s proposed sentimental education... more
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PurposeTo discuss the gender dimension of migration and human rights, and to provide an assessment of how to improve human rights protections for migrant women workers in janitorial services and night clubs across registered and... more
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This note analyses a recent case of the European Court of Justice in which the applicant, a 14-year old rape victim, alleged that Bulgarian criminal law violated her rights under Articles 3 and 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights... more
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The Constitution provides the ground rules to create obligations on the state and to transform the education system by introducing human rights in line with the best developed democracies. This article is not about state-compelled school... more
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Public health and human rights are complementary—and, at times, conflicting—approaches to protecting and promoting human well-being and dignity. Public health addresses the needs of populations and seeks, through intervention and... more
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The right to freedom of expression and information is guaranteed by Article (10) of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) in all 47 member states of the Council of Europe. The... more
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One province in Canada, Ontario, is considering the use of drug tests for welfare recipients. Those with positive tests could be required to receive treatment and abstain from drug use or risk losing their benefits. Several experts from... more
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One recent finding about the prostitution market is the differences in the extent and nature of violence experienced between women who work on the street and those who work from indoor sex work venues.This paper brings together extensive... more
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Abstract This article chronicles the promise and limitations of social movement networks as mechanisms of political voice in Mapuche Chile. Although protest has largely fallen from favour in post-authoritarian Chile, environmental... more
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With privacy enhancing identity management, end users are given better ways for managing their identities for specific contexts. One could easily argue that the need to implement identity management systems that are privacy enhancing... more
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The data are in; women are still insignificant. Even after more than a decade of experience with UNSCR 1325, women have made only insignificant gains in peace processes. While the UN has repeatedly renewed its commitment to “mainstream”... more
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... This in turn means inad-equate numbers of role models for younger women in the process ofbecoming computer scientists. ... This “hacker elite” system, along with the relatively new academic structure of com-puter science which may... more
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Measuring Education Equal access to education is a basic human right. But in Inequality many countries gaps in education between various Gini Coefficients of Education groups are staggering. An
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Millennium development goals Human development index Data envelopment analysis Principal component analysis a b s t r a c t This research develops a framework to estimate the relative efficiency of developing countries in utilizing both... more
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This publication will enhance the understanding of what we call the law of reparations, developed in the Inter-American Court and Commission of Human Rights. Reparations have a special meaning for the victims of human rights violations... more
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Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in , Chinese
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Ethics is always a fundamental issue in Psychology as a profession: it guides decisions and actions in all fields, being the core of profession itself. Teaching professional ethics in our contemporary society, incorporating the... more
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The social model ofdisability gives us the tools not only to challenge the discrimination and prejudice we face, but also to articulate the personal experience of impairment. Recognition of difference is therefore a key part of the... more
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