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Este libro gira en torno a la experiencia de la exitosa campaña "Sí, acepto" en Costa Rica, desde la perspectiva de algunas y algunos de sus principales protagonistas, detallando antecedentes, apoyos, estrategias de publicidad, argumentos legales, obstáculos y aprendizajes. Asimismo, tiene de telón de fondo una de las piezas jurídicas más importantes y bellas de los últimos años: la Opinión Consultiva OC-24/17 de la Corte Interamericana de...
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En los últimos años el fenómeno de la corrupción ha impactado significativamente en la región latinoamericana. En ese contexto, el libro analiza las instituciones, mecanismos, legislación y jurisprudencia que dan lugar al ius anticorruptionis commune latinoamericanum, pues se requiere conformar una cultura jurídica común anticorrupción para dar tratamiento a la amenaza que representa para los derechos humanos. Se enfatiza que la lucha anticorrupción...
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Mumia Abu-Jamal has been incarcerated on Pennsylvania's death row for over two decades. His case has generated more controversy and received more attention, both national and international, than that of any other inmate currently under sentence of death in the United States of America.
Mumia Abu Jamal, black, was convicted and sentenced to death in July 1982 for the murder of white police officer Daniel Faulkner on December 9, 1981. He has steadfastly...
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This series of essays address the ongoing debate centered on how patriotism is, defined and who is a patriot. True patriotism is much broader than how it has been traditionally, described in American society. There is a spirit of opposition within the nation's history that has never been, credited for being the primary source of developing American democracy.
"On Resistance" makes the case that activist groups such as the Black Panther Party for...
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¿Mis derechos terminan donde empiezan los de los demás? ¿Es más importante el derecho a la libre circulación que a una vida digna? ¿Qué respuesta ofrece la justicia? Carta abierta sobre la intolerancia entabla un diálogo con aquellos que exigen, por parte del derecho, una respuesta más severa hacia quienes protestan: los que reaccionan ante el maltrato estatal o empresarial, los que se manifiestan por salarios decentes, los que cortan calles...
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En el presente libro se realiza una presentación de los derechos fundamentales que reconoce y garantiza nuestra Constitución Política del Estado de 1993. Si bien los derechos desarrollados no son todos los que están reconocidos en nuestra norma suprema, ya que su abordaje excedería los límites de un trabajo como el presente, hemos desarrollado los que consideramos tienen un mayor impacto, por su incidencia y recurrencia, en la vida diaria de...
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Americans Without Law shows how the racial boundaries of civic life are based on widespread perceptions about the relative capacity of minority groups for legal behavior, which Mark S. Weiner calls "juridical racialism." The book follows the history of this civic discourse by examining the legal status of four minority groups in four successive historical periods: American Indians in the 1880s, Filipinos after the Spanish-American War, Japanese immigrants...
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Democracy Detained exposes the deplorable secret crimes committed by the Bush administration in their war on terror. Prominent legal activist Barbara Olshansky documents the assault on our constitutional democracy since 9/11, meticulously analyzing the unlawful justifications made by the U.S. government for covert actions at home and abroad. She reports on current shocking practices, from the outsourcing of torture through extraordinary rendition,...
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Importance of Right to information is growing day to day to bring the transparency in the administration and the governmental works. The Government of India has notified 'The Right to Information Act, 2005', vide the Gazette of India; Extraordinary Part II-Section I, New Delhi, Tuesday, June 21, 2005. This is an Act to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information for citizens to secure access to information under the control...
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Durante las últimas décadas, la promesa de igualdad y su búsqueda han sido una constante en las prácticas, las normas y la reflexión jurídicas, lo que reafirma que ni el Estado ni los individuos deben decidir o realizar acciones discriminatorias guiadas por prejuicios y estigmatizaciones. De ahí que nuestras democracias consideren irrazonables y prohíban aquellos requisitos que puedan restringir el goce de derechos constitucionales: una estatura...
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The Basics of Freedom presents simple explanations of the fundamental principles that provide the foundational structure for the United States government. Breaking down each clause and paragraph, Dr. Bey explicates the natural rights that each citizen has to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and highlights the ideals pertaining to the responsibilities of the government to its citizens and the civic duties of the citizens to the government....
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En el marco de la celebración de los 200 años de la fundación de Jalisco como estado libre y soberano, esta obra investiga los orígenes de la primera Constitución jalisciense, explorando los eventos que llevaron a su creación. Comienza examinando las causas que desencadenaron la crisis del antiguo régimen en España y la reacción de las autoridades de México y Guadalajara ante el surgimiento del liberalismo, así como los efectos de la Constitución...
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This book traces brutality, corruption and oppression in major police departments throughout the United States: from the Rodney King beating, caught on videotape in Los Angeles in 1991; corruption in the Albuquerque Police Department; a 62-police vehicle chase in Cleveland which resulted in the deaths of two unarmed suspects; the chokehold death of Eric Harris in Staten Island; the death of Michael Harris in Ferguson, Missouri, and police and civic...
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"La violencia está siendo el resultado de creer diferente al otro. Los abusos sobre las minorías son comunes y constantes. La dignidad humana está siendo pisoteada por el mismo ser humano que cree tener derechos superiores sobre quien no comulga con sus ideas y principios religiosos. Sin el mínimo respeto y tolerancia hacia los demás, se defiende erróneamente una tradición o una costumbre religiosa pasando por encima de la vida de otro ser...
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The Politics of Love in Myanmar offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar's post-2011 political transition. Lynette J. Chua explores how these activists devoted themselves to, and fell in love with, the practice of human rights and how they were able to empower queer Burmese to accept themselves, gain social belonging, and reform discriminatory legislation and law enforcement. Informed by...
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La prescripción y la caducidad son instituciones jurídicas de larga data.
La primera más vieja, la otra más joven. Su fuente está en el decurso del tiempo y la inacción de un derecho por su titular. Ambas generan efectos en las relaciones jurídicas que, como sabemos, se han diversificado y dimensionado en razón de variados factores: económicos, sociales y ni qué decir de la globalización.
Este libro desarrolla, como punto de partida,...
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A careful and thorough examination of the 2nd Amendment suggest that it is very different from what many people think. In fact, rather than giving UA citizens a free choice of all and any Gun ther may like, the 2nd Amendment can be used to prevent the most dangerous people from having easy access to guns.
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Pseudo religious ideas are used to pass laws that prohibit its option. But abortion is essential to ensure that children will be born into families that want them. At lest as important is the effect on overpopulation and its result--climate change.Few realize that God told Moses that abortion is required in at least one situation--and tells the priests how to do it! But there is much more that pro-choise people should know.
59) Social Security: The New Rules, Essentials & Maximizing Your Social Security, Retirement, Medicar
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Let's be honest, Social Security can be complicated. Social Security is vital to many people's retirement plans. Yet is so shrouded in uncertainty.
There are so many different rules, income limitations, age requirements, cut-offs, and so on that it can drive a person mad.
Your choices influence the size of your Social Security checks and making mistakes could accidentally shrink them. Understanding how your decisions affect your Social Security...
60) The Brazilian CFIA Model as a Mechanism for Enhancing Protection and Respect for Socio-Economic Righ
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This research evaluates whether the new model of investment agreement developed by Brazil (CFIA) is a mechanism for enhancing protection and respect for social and economic rights. The research starts by exploring the origins of investment treaties, their development and main characteristics. It examines why investment treaties and socio-economic rights are related, by mapping cases in which investment treaties have already impaired the protection...
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