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Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil is a groundbreaking comparative analysis of the historical development and contemporary dynamics of LGBT activism in Latin America’s two largest democracies. Rafael de la Dehesa focuses on the ways that LGBT activists have engaged with the state, particularly in alliance with political parties and through government health agencies in the wake of the AIDS crisis. He examines this engagement against the backdrop of the broader political transitions to democracy, the neoliberal transformation of state–civil society relations, and the gradual consolidation of sexual rights at the international level. His comparison highlights similarities betw...
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The Best of News Design 35th Edition is the latest edition of Rockport's highly respected series. It features the best-of-the-best in news design of various kinds.
The 2020 UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons is the fifth of its kind mandated by the General Assembly through the 2010 United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons. It covers more than 130 countries and provides an overview of patterns and flows of trafficking in persons at global, regional and national levels, based primarily on trafficking cases detected between 2017 and 2019. As UNODC has been systematically collecting data on trafficking in persons for more than a decade, trend information is presented for a broad range of indicators.
The urgent need to professionalize Mexican police has been recognized since the early 1990s, but despite even the most well-intentioned promises from elected officials and police chiefs, few gains have been made in improving police integrity. Why have reform efforts in Mexico been largely unsuccessful? This book seeks to answer the question by focusing on Mexico's municipal police, which make up the largest percentage of the country's police forces. Indeed, organized crime presents a major obstacle to institutional change, with criminal groups killing hundreds of local police in recent years. Nonetheless, Daniel Sabet argues that the problems of Mexican policing are really problems of govern...
El presente libro es una investigación realizada sobre la problemática de los conflictos derecho a la libertad de información de la libertad de expresión con el derecho al honor. Se trata de explicar sobre la necesidad de que se garantice la libertad de expresión e información mediante un adecuado tratamiento procesal, evitando la penalización de los comunicadores por tratarse de conflictos iusfundamentales que deben ser solucionados en la vía constitucional, y no como existe en muchos estados sanciones penales por difamación agravada que importa opiniones más que hechos. No puede haber dos vías, una constitucional que pretende evitar y reparar el daño, y una sanción con pena pr...
Al término de la Guerra, Louk Hulsman emprendió sus estudios de derecho, pero lo cierto es que en pocos años se graduó y pasó a prestar servicios en el Ministerio de Guerra y luego en el de Justicia. Entre 1963 y 1986 fue catedrático de derecho penal y criminología en la Universidad de Róterdam. Diseñó la política de drogas holandesa y fue el impulsor del famoso Report on Decriminalization del Consejo de la Unión Europea (Estrasburgo, 1980). Desempeñó diferentes cargos en las directivas de la Asociación Internacional de Derecho Penal, en la de Defensa Social y en la de Criminología, fundando además ICOPA (International Conference on Penal Abolition). Su actividad internacion...