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Protecting Human Rights: The Approach Of The Singapore Courts, Jack Tsen-Ta Lee

Jack Tsen-Ta LEE

The Constitution is the supreme law of Singapore, but have the courts unnecessarily limited their role of upholding the Constitution? This article is based on a speech delivered at an event at the Conrad Centennial Singapore on 4 December 2014 entitled The Role of the Judiciary in the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights organized by the Delegation of the European Union to Singapore to commemorate Human Rights Day.

Endeudamiento Interno, Endeudamiento Externo, Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

ENDEUDAMIENTO INTERNO, ENDEUDAMIENTO EXTERNO

La Eutanasia Y Un Legado Magno, Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

LA EUTANASIA Y UN LEGADO MAGNO

Contra El Autoritarismo Y El Abuso, Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

CONTRA EL AUTORITARISMO Y EL ABUSO

Incapacitation Through Maiming: Chemical Castration, The Eighth Amendment, And The Denial Of Human Dignity, John F. Stinneford

John F. Stinneford

This year marks the tenth anniversary of California's enactment of the nation's first chemical castration law. This law requires certain sex offenders to receive, as part of their punishment, long-term pharmacological treatment involving massive doses of a synthetic female hormone called medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA). MPA treatment is described as chemical castration because it mimics the effect of surgical castration by eliminating almost all testosterone from the offender's system. The intended effect of MPA treatment is to alter brain and body function by reducing the brain's exposure to testosterone, thus depriving offenders of most (or all) capacity to experience sexual desire …

Unlocking The Business Value Of Csr, David L. Wallace, Stephane Brabant

David L Wallace

No abstract provided.

La Primera Piedra Del Hospital Goyeneche, Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

LA PRIMERA PIEDRA DEL HOSPITAL GOYENECHE

El Derecho De Familia En Tiempos Del Sindrome De Estocolmo Inducido, Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

EL DERECHO DE FAMILIA EN TIEMPOS DEL SINDROME DE ESTOCOLMO INDUCIDO

Immigration Surveillance, Anil Kalhan

Anil Kalhan

In recent years, immigration enforcement levels have soared, yielding a widely noted increase in the number of noncitizens removed from the United States. Less visible, however, has been an attendant sea change in the underlying nature of immigration governance itself, hastened by new surveillance and dataveillance technologies. Like many other areas of contemporary governance, immigration control has rapidly become an information-centered and technology-driven enterprise. At virtually every stage of the process of migrating or traveling to, from, and within the United States, both noncitizens and U.S. citizens are now subject to collection and analysis of extensive quantities of personal information …

Law And Religion In The Victorian Court Of Appeal, Neil J. Foster

Neil J Foster

Briefly notes the decision in Cobaw v CYC (2014) and suggests reason why the High Court should grant special leave to appeal.

Bagua –Conforme La Gaudium Et Spes, Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

El Derecho intercultural es un desafío a la aplicación de esquemas en busca de la justicia. BAGUA –CONFORME LA GAUDIUM ET SPES

La Promoción “Enrique Angulo Paulet – 2007”, Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

LA PROMOCIÓN “ENRIQUE ANGULO PAULET – 2007”

El Divorcio, Según G. K. Chesteron, Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

EL DIVORCIO, SEGÚN G. K. CHESTERON

Dna Data Exchanges Between Eu Member States And Fundamental Rights Protection (Particularly Fundamental Rights To Data Protection), Joaquín Sarrión Esteve

Joaquín Sarrión Esteve

Program

I. Motivation.

II. Methodology.

III. DNA data legal framework

DNA data EU legal framework.

DNA data international (non EU) legal framework.

IV. Actual trends of fundamental rights protection in a multilevel system regarding DNA data (conclusions?)

Libertad De Religión En El S. Xxi, Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

La libertad de religión es un Derecho Fundamental que engloba, por un lado, la ilegitimidad de los Estados que pretendan imponer creencias religiosas o una religión oficial; y, por otro, la facultad del individuo de exigir al Estado que se le garantice el ejercicio libre de las prácticas que le dicta su fe personal, siempre que éstas no comprometan el orden público.

Se Perdió Una Batalla; La Guerra Sigue, Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

SE PERDIÓ UNA BATALLA; LA GUERRA SIGUE

Divorcio Y Objeción De Conciencia, Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

DIVORCIO Y OBJECIÓN DE CONCIENCIA

Inconstitucionalidad Del Cobro Del Impuesto Sobre La Renta De Jubilaciones, Pensiones Y Haberes De Retiro. ViolacióN A Derechos Humanos: El Caso Mexicano, Guillermo Castorena

Guillermo Castorena

En la primera parte del artículo se establecen los antecedentes y actos de autoridad que dieron pie a demandar el amparo. Posteriormente se entra al análisis de una serie de argumentos “que se hicieron valer en contra” de los actos de autoridad ante el Poder Judicial de la Federación. Por último se hace referencia a los Derechos Humanos que se consideraron violados, los mismos que son materia de denuncia ante la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. The first part of the article establishes the background and acts of authority that let the victims to file the constitutional claims. Then it …

Children And Immigration: International, Local, And Social Responsibilities, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol, Justin Luna

Berta E. Hernández-Truyol

This essay focuses on the human rights of immigrant children, regardless of the legality of their presence within U.S. borders, especially with respect to health, education, and welfare. In that context, the work explores, as the title suggests, the international, local, and social/cultural normative standards that structure the responsibilities -- independently and collectively, that proverbial village -- with respect to children's well-being. We develop these ideas in three parts. First, we address the foundations of the human rights idea and specifically enumerate the particular normative notions, including international treaties that govern children's lives. Next, we discuss immigration in the United …

On Disposable People And Human Well-Being: Health, Money And Power, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol

Berta E. Hernández-Truyol

The foundational premise of this essay is that health and well-being are human rights issues. My focus on this theme, specifically within the human rights paradigm, is new, passionate, and personal. On December 15, 2005, just three months before the conference that prompted the writing of this essay, I lost my partner of over 20 years. She fought a valiant, strong, and dignified fight against cancer--a journey I traveled with her. During that time I learned much about health systems and health care. Most saliently, notwithstanding the reality of the extraordinarily good care she ultimately received, I realized there is …

Sexual Labor And Human Rights, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol, Jane E. Larson

Berta E. Hernández-Truyol

In this Article, we engage the current human rights debate that dichotomizes prostitution either as a modern form of slavery or as the exercise of the right to work. This framework effectively sets up a coercion/consent polarity. These poles raise fundamental human rights issues; both the prohibition against slavery and the right to work are matters addressed by and central to the international human rights paradigm. Yet we argue in this Article that the human rights issues raised by prostitution cannot properly be studied nor moved towards meaningful resolution in the context of the prevailing polarity. Prostitution in its current …

Gender Politics In Global Governance, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol

Berta E. Hernández-Truyol

Prof. Hernández-Truyol reviews the book Gender Politics in Global Governance from editors Mary K. Meyer and Elisabeth Prügl. Given the emergence of multilateral institutions in this century, the mobilization of women against "male supremacy" has taken an internationalist turn; it seeks to shape "the agendas of international organizations and the normative practices of global governance." In an effort to understand and analyze this movement and its impact, the editors have compiled a volume drawing new research together exploring gender politics in global governance that is also "attentive to historical and contemporary modes of women's organizing from the local to the …

Glocalizing Law And Culture: Towards A Cross-Constitutive Paradigm, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol

Berta E. Hernández-Truyol

This lecture addresses the relationship between law and culture in three general parts. The first part consists of a brief review of the theories addressing the relationship of law and culture, mainly the mirror theory. But I will suggest that there is more to the relationship of law and culture than one being an inert reflection of the other; hence my proposal for what I call, as a working concept, a cross-constitutive paradigm of law and culture. The second part reviews the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women ("CEDAW''), a law that seeks to effect …

María Lugones's Work As A Human Rights Idea(L), Berta E. Hernández-Truyol, Mariana Ribeiro

Berta E. Hernández-Truyol

The work of Maria Lugones can be utilized to focus on the same ideas of human reality articulated in the human rights framework. She engages the complexity of humans -- the indivisibility of their identity components -- through her concepts of hybridity/multidimensionality. Similarly, Lugones captures the human need for self-determination -- a right embedded in the human rights framework -- in her work on autonomy, agency, and self-care. Finally, her quest for an antisubordination ideal, like the human rights mandate for equality and nondiscrimination, comes to life in her call for the recognition of and respect for the equality of …

Sex And Globalization, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol

Berta E. Hernández-Truyol

For some time now, I have focused on a mission to bring together the separate discourses of the human rights and trade fields -- certainly not to blend them, but to raise awareness of their myriad interconnections. Indeed, human rights and trade are interlocking pieces of the puzzle we call international law and cannot possibly remain sequestered in the "splendid isolation" in which they have existed since their inception as disciplines. In any study of globalization, especially if one endeavors to pursue its benefits for all persons, not just the elite around the world, one must be aware of and …

Traveling The Boundaries Of Statelessness: Global Passports And Citizenship, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol, Matthew Hawk

Berta E. Hernández-Truyol

An independent global citizenship without a local component and in the absence of the much-feared global government creates two concerns. One, an individual may imperil the rights of others, without a structure that can impose sanctions for the heinous conduct. Two, an individual's rights may be imperiled, and there may be no entity to provide protection. This essay proposes a model of a formal global citizenship that will alleviate these concerns and prove both practically and theoretically feasible. The model flows from the concept of dual or multiple nationality and offers global citizenship only as an elective nationality. Such citizenship …

Nativism, Terrorism, And Human Rights -- The Global Wrongs Of Reno V. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol

Berta E. Hernández-Truyol

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee decision (American-Arab or AADC) is the most recent U.S. Supreme Court pronouncement regarding the intersection of immigration regulations and fundamental constitutional rights enjoyed by foreign subjects present within the United States. In American-Arab, the U.S. government commenced deportation proceedings against two legal permanent residents and six temporary visa holders on the basis of an ideological bias: the plaintiffs were alleged to be members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (Popular Front or PFLP) -- a charge all the plaintiffs denied. The Supreme Court's ruling endorsing the legality of the government's deportation actions wholly …

La Información En Tiempos De Cólera, Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

LA INFORMACIÓN EN TIEMPOS DE CÓLERA

El Voto Singular Del Juez Señor De Valdivia Cano Es Como Sigue: Casación N° 4664-2010-Puno, Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

EL VOTO SINGULAR DEL JUEZ SEÑOR DE VALDIVIA CANO ES COMO SIGUE: Casación N° 4664-2010-Puno

¿Quién Paga Las Campañas Electorales?, Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

¿QUIÉN PAGA LAS CAMPAÑAS ELECTORALES?