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    Bioetica e diritto nell’Est Europa ortodosso

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    Il rapporto tra la (bio)etica ortodossa e le scelte legislative bioetiche nei Paesi dell’Est Europa passa necessariamente dall’analisi delle relazioni che intercorrono tra Stato e Chiese e dal ruolo rivestito dall’ortodossia, non solo come religione ma come fattore culturale e identitario-nazionale. Lo studio dello sviluppo della legislazione dell’aborto, a partire dalla Russia sovietica, da una parte, e le attuali regolamentazioni della maternità surrogata, dall’altra, ci fanno capire come il rapporto tra (bio)etica e diritto sia non solo in continua evoluzione, ma anche di come esso riservi delle sorprese, pur però senza tradire del tutto i retaggi dell’ortodossia.The relationship between orthodox (bio)ethics and bioethical legislative choices in the countries of Eastern Europe necessarily passes from the analysis of the relations that in these countries exist between the State and the Churches and the role played by orthodoxy, not only understood as religion but as a cultural factor and national identity. The study of the development of abortion legislation, starting from Soviet Russia, on the one hand, and the current regulations in those countries of surrogacy, on the other, make us understand how the relationship between (bio)ethics and law is not only constantly evolving, but also how it reserves surprises, but without betraying completely the legacies of orthodoxy

    L’Africa in miniatura. Prime note su diritto e religione in Camerun, Diritti culturali e religiosi tra Africa ed Europa, (a cura di F. Alicino e F. Botti) Bari 2011

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    Il contributo dello scrivente si riferisce al Camerun che sintetizza molti dei problemi tipici della legislazione africana di provenienza coloniale, in rapporto all'avvicendarsi dei dominatori stranieri nel paese. Lo studio si ferma all'indipendenza del paes

    Unilateralità e bilateralità in Spagna

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    Unilateralism and bilateralism in Spain ABSTRACT: The aim of this research is to determine if the system of relations between the Spanish state and religious denominations adheres to a bilateral logic, as the principle of cooperation suggested at first glance. SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. Il principio di cooperazione: quadro generale dei rapporti tra Stato e Chiese - 3. Gli Accordi concordatari con la Chiesa cattolica - 4. La Legge organica sulla libertà religiosa - 5. Gli accordi di cooperazione - 6. Le Comunità autonome e la regolamentazione del fenomeno religioso - 7. Questioni aperte - 8. Il caso delle comunità ortodosse - 9. Una breve conclusione

    A Social Performance Analysis of Italian Microfinance

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    This paper aims to analyse Italian MFIs social performance according to the core set of common indicators and framework developed by the Social Performance Task Force using data collected by Fondazione Giordano Dell’Amore and Fondazione Risorsa Donna in 2008 for the European Microfinance Network (EMN) Survey 2006-2007. Key features and client profiles of Italian leading MFIs are also identified with respect to their social performance indicators. The methodology adopted in the current social performance analysis follows the reference framework specified in Social Performance Standard Reports. It examines the whole process of translating MFIs mission into social impact and includes the analysis of several connected dimensions of the social performance pathway corresponding to areas covered by the indicators: the intent of the MFI, the effectiveness of the internal system and activities in achieving its targets, MFI outputs and eventually its capacity to positively affect clients life and achieve social goals.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishe

    Measuring the Social Performance of Microfinance in Europe

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    Microfinance promise to serve low-income or disadvantaged beneficiaries excluded from the formal banking sector in a financially sustainable way (thus to achieve the so called “double bottom line” of financial and social performance) built excitement around the development of a global industry. However, for a long time an anti-subsidy position embedded in the international key donor community have shown little concern of social performance data and information on beneficiaries profiles in terms of various dimension of social and financial exclusion. Until recently, most of the emphasis of microfinance advocates has been devoted to MFIs financial performance following the “win-win” proposition, according to which financial viability should be sufficient to show social impact, a view that is supported by a controversial evidence and is based on a selective understanding of conceptual facts. Nevertheless, several initiatives recently translated into the Social Performance Task Force (SPTF) attempt to explore social aspects of microfinance providing a new definition of social performance more focused on the whole process leading to a social impact. Aim of this paper is to measure European MFIs social performance according to a core set of common indicators developed by the SPTF but using data collected in 2010 by the European Microfinance Network (EMN) on a sample of 170 microfinance actors operating in 21 countries out of 27 European Union (EU) member countries, current EU candidate countries and countries belonging to the European Free Trade Area (EFTA). The reference framework followed in the current social performance analysis examines the whole process of translating MFIs mission into social impact and includes the analysis of three connected dimensions of the social performance process corresponding to different set of indicators: the intent of the MFI, the effectiveness of the internal system and activities in achieving its targets, MFI outputs and eventually its capacity to positively affect clients life and achieve social goals.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishe

    Cultural Heritage and Religious Phenomenon between Urbicide and Cancel Culture: The Other Side of the Russian–Ukrainian Conflict

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    The Russian–Ukrainian conflict, in addition to causing an unacceptable loss of human life, is straining the integrity of Ukraine’s cultural heritage, despite the fact that both countries involved are parties to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its First Protocol. Churches are one of Ukraine’s most important historical assets, as well as symbolic places of Orthodox religious identity common to both the invaders and the invaded. The destruction of these places and their deliberate damage on the part of both sides appear to be part of a more general conflict concerning internal disagreements between Russian and Ukrainian Orthodoxy, which, in turn, reflect two different historical views of the Russian–Ukrainian relationship. A brief reconstruction of relations between the Orthodox Churches operating on the territory of Ukraine demonstrates how religious affiliation has affected the conflict, causing it to become decisive and deeply divisive, so much so that the Patriarchate of Moscow has become an active part of the conflict. This circumstance favours the hypothesis that it is precisely the religious cultural heritage that is most at risk of deliberate destruction. The Russians, by destroying the symbolic places of Ukrainian religious identity (urbicide), affirm the spiritual unity of the Russian and Ukrainian peoples. For their part, the Ukrainians attempt to erase the Russian presence and the common religious cultural roots by destroying buildings of worship dear to the tradition of the Moscow Patriarchate (cancel culture). They reject the imperial traditions of Russia and, at the same time, claim an independent Church. The question arises as to whether the reconstruction process following the war will take into account the original cultural–religious identities, or whether it will take the opportunity to adopt a new (also) religious identity instead, and whether the old and new instruments offered by law are adequate
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