514 research outputs found
COVID-19: From Sanitary Emergency to Human Rights Crisis. The Pandemic and the European Convention on Human Rights
No full textL’articolo esamina il processo di deroga della Convenzione Europea dei Diritti dell’Uomo CEDU nel
contesto della pandemia causata dal nuovo coronavirus Sars-Cov-2 (COVID-19) in Europa, riflettendo
sull’impatto delle misure emergenziali sui diritti umani e le libertà fondamentali. Si argomenta che la
deroga per affrontare situazioni di crisi è accettabile sotto l’attenta supervisione del Consiglio d’Europa.
L’intento è di evidenziare che le misure emergenziali che determinano una limitazione o deroga
dei diritti umani e delle libertà fondamentali debbano essere ragionevoli e limitate sia nel tempo che
nell’applicazione, dunque devono essere misure eccezionali e temporanee, costantemente sottoposte
alla verifica del rispetto dei criteri della proporzionalità e della necessità.This article examines the process of derogation of the European Convention for the Protection of Human
Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR). It focuses on the COVID-19 emergency situation and on the
limits posed to fundamental human rights and freedoms by the measures implemented in response to the
sanitary crisis in Europe. It is argued that derogation is acceptable if under the close supervision of Council
of Europe bodies (CoE). Moreover, any emergency measures which determine the derogation or limitation
of human rights and fundamental freedoms should be reasonable and limited in scope and time, and thus
should have an exceptional and temporary nature and should be constantly tested against the principles of
necessity and proportionality
L’infanzia negata nel conflitto russo-ucraino
No full textThis post aims at shading light on the violations of children’s rights in the context of the on-going military confrontation between Russia and Ukraine, focusing on the case of alleged deportations and illegal adoptions as well as the assignment of Russian nationality based on the Presidential Decrees of May 2022, which are at the basis of the recent arrest warrant of the International Criminal Court against Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova
Article 74 - Dispute Settlement
No full textThis chapter is a commentary of Article 74 of the Istanbul Convention - Dispute Settlement, and it examines the means of dispute settlement that are mentioned in the Convention as well as “any other means of peaceful settlement”; then it proposes a comparison with the mechanisms for dispute settlement that are available within the CEDAW framework, and concludes with several considerations on the institutionalisation of dispute settlement procedures
Article 73 - Effects of the Convention
No full textThis chapter is a commentary of Article 73 of the Istanbul Convention - Effects of the Convention and it addresses the victim’s best interest and the most favourable
rights, as well as the relationship between the Istanbul Convention and other international instruments in terms of most favourable rights, on the one hand and on the other hand the relationship between the Istanbul Convention and aspects of domestic legislation on violence against women and domestic violence in some of the member States of the Council of Europe
Reviews
No full textJuliet McMaster\u27s Jane Austen, Young Author (Ashgate [now marketed by Routledge], 2016), reviewed by Devoney Looser; Ethel Turner\u27s Tales from the Parthenon and That Young Rebel, edited by Pamela Nutt with others (Juvenilia Press, 2014 and 2015), reviewed by Alexandra Prunean; Laurie Langbauer\u27s The Juvenile Tradition: Young Writers and Prolepsis, 1750-1835 (Oxford UP, 2016), reviewed by David Owen
Analysis on how colloquial phrases differ in English and Spanish based on David Katan’s Cultural approach to Translation, regarding the books “Memories of My Melancholy Whores” translated by Edith Grossman and “Memorias de mis putas tristes” by Gabriel Garcia Márquez.
No full textThis research project is meant to be a contribution of the latest and controversial literary work “Memorias de mis putas tristes” by Gabriel García Márquez, author, novelist, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, and the translated version by Edith Grossman “Memories of My Melancholy Whores”. The analysis of the project is based on David Katan’s Cultural approach to Translation regarding colloquial phrases found in the book. Gabriel García Marquéz is considered an important novelist of Latin American Literature and his colloquial phrases are a challenge in order to transfer them from the Source Text to the Target Text as it is shown in this project. Therefore, David Katan’s approaches provide solutions in order to help translators to overcome translation problems related to culture. This paper analyses how colloquial phrases differ from Spanish into English and how they can vary in meaning according to country where the colloquial phrases come from
The outcomes of patients with ESRD and ANCA-associated Vasculitis in Australia and New Zealand
No full textBackground and objectives This study aimed to evaluate dialysis and transplant outcomes of patients with ESRD secondary to ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV)
Jealous Men but Evil Women: The Double Standard in Cases of Domestic Homicide
No full textIn 1989, Sarah Thornton killed her abusive husband with a knife, after years of abuse and threats to her daughter. She was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Also in 1989, Kiranjit Ahluwalia soaked her husband’s bedclothes with petrol and set them alight. He died from burns 10 days later, and she was subsequently convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
In 1991, Joseph McGrail kicked his alcoholic common-law wife to death whilst she lay unconscious. He walked free from court, the judge telling him that “this lady would have tried the patience of a saint”. In 1992, Les Humes told a court that he “saw a red mist” after his wife admitted loving someone else. He fatally stabbed her whilst their teenage children struggled with him. He was convicted of manslaughter due to provocation and was imprisoned for 7 years.
Double standards in judicial processes are notorious. Chivalric justice is the case in which women are given lighter sentences for similar offences to men. This does not apply in the case of domestic homicide, where women are seen as evil and calculating when killing a spouse, men are seen as provoked beyond reason. Women who kill husbands do so with weapons that they need to acquire, men do it with their hands or weapons that are immediately available. So it is seems the defence of crime passionnel is reserved for men; women, it is implied, premeditate the murder of abusive husbands, and are justifiably punished. This paper explores the double standard in uxoricide vs. mariticide, and why it appears that killing a wife is justified and killing a husband is evi
Obituary − Emeritus Professor Dr John Davidson McCraw (1925−2014) MBE, MSc NZ, DSc Well, CRSNZ, FNZSSS.
No full textJohn McCraw was an Earth scientist who began working as a pedologist with Soil Bureau, DSIR, then became the Foundation Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, inspiring a new generation to study and work in Earth sciences . In retirement, John McCraw was an author and historian with a special emphasis on Central Otago as well as the Waikato region. Throughout his career, marked especially by exemplary leadership, accomplished administration, and commitment to his staff and students at the University of Waikato, John McCraw also contributed to the communities in which he lived through public service organizations and as a public speaker. He received a number of awards including an MBE, fellowship, and companionship, and, uniquely, is commemorated also with a glacier, a fossil, and a museum-based research room named for him. Emeritus Professor John McCraw passed away on the 14th of December, 2014. An obituary, entitled “Dedicated to earth science and his students”, was published in the Waikato Times on the 10th of January, 2015
Nikolai Evreinov and Edith Craig as Mediums of Modernist Sensibility
No full textNikolai Evreinov (1870-1953) was a Russian playwright, director, and theorist of the theatre who played a leading part in the modernist movement of Russian theatre. Evreinov's 1911 monodrama The Theatre of the Soul (V kulisakh dushi) was staged by the Crooked Mirror theatre in St Petersburg in 1912. It was also performed in London (1915) and Rome (1929), and inspired Man Ray to create his aerograph The Theatre of the Soul (1917). In this article Alexandra Smith links Evreinov's play to Russian modernist thought shaped by the atmosphere of crisis associated with the Russo-Japanese War and the first Russian Revolution. It demonstrates that Edith Craig's production of Evreinov's play suggests that the philosophy of theatricalization of everyday life might enable modern subjects to overcome the fragmentation of modern society. Craig's use of the montage-like techniques of Evreinov's play prefigures cinematographic experiments of the 1920s and Marinetti's notion of synthetic theatre. Alexandra Smith is a Reader in Russian Studies at the University of Edinburgh and is the author of The Song of the Mockingbird: Pushkin in the Works of Marina Tsvetaeva (1994) and Montaging Pushkin: Pushkin and Visions of Modernity in Russian Twentieth-Century Poetry (2006), as well as numerous articles on Russian literature and culture.</p
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