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Presentation Slides - Have Impoverished Families Been Guaranteed The Right To Adequate Food In The Legal Amazon Region?, Claudia Ribeiro Pereira Nunes
Presentation Slides - Have Impoverished Families Been Guaranteed The Right To Adequate Food In The Legal Amazon Region?, Claudia Ribeiro Pereira Nunes
Claudia Ribeiro Pereira Nunes
Brazil is one of the largest food-exporting countries in the world. The economic development of the country depends on the export of food. On the other hand, the Brazilian Federal Constitution guarantees the Adequate Food Right to the Brazilian population and was created the National Food and Nutrition Security. Against this background, in which the foods has dual aspect - law and economic development instrument, the overall aim of the research is to investigate whether there is food and nutrition security, specially to the single-parent families headed by women from 18 to 25 years, with the least 3 or 4 …
Preventing Balkanization Or Facilitating Racial Domination: A Critique Of The New Equal Protection, Darren L. Hutchinson
Preventing Balkanization Or Facilitating Racial Domination: A Critique Of The New Equal Protection, Darren L. Hutchinson
Darren L Hutchinson
Abstract
Preventing Balkanization or Facilitating Racial Domination: A Critique of the
New Equal Protection
The Supreme Court requires that equal protection plaintiffs prove defendants acted with discriminatory intent. The intent rule has insulated from judicial invalidation numerous policies that harmfully impact racial and ethnic minorities. Court doctrine also mandates that state actors remain colorblind. The colorblindness doctrine has caused the Court to invalidate many policies that were designed to ameliorate the conditions of racial inequality. Taken together, these two equality doctrines facilitate racial domination. The Court justifies this outcome on the ground that the Constitution does not protect “group rights.” …