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The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law aims to publish peer-reviewed scholarly articles and reviews as well as significant developments in human rights and humanitarian law. It examines international human rights and humanitarian law with a global reach, though its particular focus is on the Asian region. The focused theme of Volume 5 is Law, Culture and Human Rights in Asia and the Middle East.
"É buscando contribuir com tais reflexões que se organizou o presente livro. Dividido em três partes ("Questões introdutórias", "Questões estruturais" e "Justiça Climática e Grupos Vulneráveis mais impactados", que por sua vez se subdivide em geral e Brasil), contando com 15 capítulos, além desta apresentação, a obra traz reflexões de autores nacionais e estrangeiros, com abordagens teóricas e práticas, sendo inter e multidisciplinar, sempre com uma ótica protetiva, a fim de dialogar com a agenda e abordagem do Grupo de Pesquisa Direitos Humanos e Vulnerabilidades da Universidade Católica de Santos. A organização do livro se preocupou, para além do conteúdo e da adoçã...
Analysing how Indigenous Peoples come to be identifiable as bearers of human rights, this book considers how individuals and communities claim the right of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) as Indigenous peoples. The basic notion of FPIC is that states should seek Indigenous peoples’ consent before taking actions that will have an impact on them, their territories or their livelihoods. FPIC is an important development for Indigenous peoples, their advocates and supporters because one might assume that, where states recognize it, Indigenous peoples will have the ability to control how non-Indigenous laws and actions will affect them. But who exactly are the Indigenous peoples that are...
Examines the regulation of cultural conflicts from the perspective of international law.
Around the world, indigenous peoples use international law to make claims for heritage, territory, and economic development. Karen Engle traces the history of these claims, considering the prevalence of particular legal frameworks and their costs and benefits for indigenous groups. Her vivid account highlights the dilemmas that accompany each legal strategy, as well as the persistent elusiveness of economic development for indigenous peoples. Focusing primarily on the Americas, Engle describes how cultural rights emerged over self-determination as the dominant framework for indigenous advocacy in the late twentieth century, bringing unfortunate, if unintended, consequences. Conceiving indige...
SHAMROCK HAIKU JOURNAL: 2007-2011 is a print edition of the twenty issues of Shamrock, the Journal of the Irish Haiku Society, as they appeared on the Shamrock website. This collection comprises works by 248 authors representing 38 countries. It covers the full range of haiku in English, from classic to experimental styles, as well as haibun. Also included are selected essays on haiku. Shamrock is a quarterly dedicated to publishing and promoting haiku and related forms. Edited by Anatoly Kudryavitsky.
Increased global demand for land posits the need for well-designed country-level land policies to protect long-held rights, facilitate land access and address any constraints that land policy may pose for broader growth. While the implementation of land reforms can be a lengthy process, the need to swiftly identify key land policy challenges and devise responses that allow the monitoring of progress, in a way that minimizes conflicts and supports broader development goals, is clear. The Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) makes a substantive contribution to the land sector by providing a quick and innovative tool to monitor land governance at the country level. The LGAF offers a comp...
Contemporary Singapore is simultaneously a small postcolonial multicultural nation state and a cosmopolitan global city. To manage fundamental contradictions, the state takes the lead in authoring the national narrative. This is partly an internal process of nation building, but it is also achieved through more commercially motivated and outward facing efforts at nation and city branding. Both sets of processes contribute to Singapore's capacity to influence foreign affairs, if only for national self-preservation. For a small state with resource limitations, this is mainly through the exercise of smart power, or the ability to strategically combine soft and hard power resources.
A critical take on the convergence of human rights discourse with the counterterrorism agenda revealing its effects on developing countries.