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    Transition to democracy and the protection of fundamental rights: the problematic experience of Cambodia

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    La fragilità e precarietà del sistema istituzionale cambogiano, sulle quali indubbiamente pesano le eredità del colonialismo e del post-colonialismo, la crudeltà delle guerre interne e non definitivamente sopite dalla missione UNTAC, i problematici rapporti con i paesi del Sud Est asiatico e, non ultimo, il ruolo della comunità internazionale, inducono ad una valutazione solo parzialmente positiva dell’esperienza cambogiana quale si è venuta sino ad oggi delineando. Al di là della adozione del testo costituzionale nel 1993 e delle riforme legislative faticosamente intraprese, gli Accordi di Parigi del 1991 che avevano affermato la centralità dei diritti umani nella promozione della sicurezza e dello sviluppo sostenibile nel paese sono stati in gran parte disattesi e numerosi progressi restano ancora da compiere per la realizzazione di un sistema davvero improntato ai valori del rule of law, del pluralismo e della democrazia

    The legal regulation of toponomastics in Italian law and the specific situation in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol

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    In the Italian region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, the legal regulation of place names has a peculiar relief due to the ethnic composition of the population, which is protected by several statutory provisions. Moreover, that regulation shows different connotations in consideration of the primary legislative power conferred in the matter of “toponymy” to the autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano and in consideration of the regional legislative power with regard to the municipal toponymy. The paper focuses on the different approach followed by the provincial legislatures in the legal regulation of toponymy. If the province of Trento has not hesitated to use the powers conferred by the statute, having care to regulate the toponymy of the Ladin population as well as of the other smaller minority groups, the province of Bolzano has not yet succeeded in enacting an exhaustive regulation according to the statutory provisions. The numerous attempts of regulation till now uselessly produced by the political bodies testify the difficulty to conclude a legislative reform that is particularly delicate in the ethnically mixed areas for the intimate connections that it sets among linguistic groups, historical memory of the places, protection of the respective cultural heritages. The different initiatives adopted until now have periodically stirred up the debate on questions that should be pacific, according to the norms provided in the special statute of the region, which were adopted in order to carry out specific international obligations. In fact, the 1946 Paris Agreement as well as the two versions of the regional statute stated the obligation of bilingual place names in the territory of the province of Bolzano. That principle is an exception to the so-called criterion of the “linguistic separatism” which is generally adopted in the region for the protection of the linguistic minorities. The persistent lack of regulation of toponymy in the province of Bolzano determines, from a legal point of view, the maintenance into force of the discipline approved during the fascist regime. In the daily experience, the not-fulfilment of the international and statutory obligations has contributed in these years, on the one side, to keep alive in the local population the discussion on a theme apparently of cultural and folklore importance but in reality of political and social impact, and, on the other side, to feed a diffused dissatisfaction especially in the Italian population that often is compelled to watch the introduction, as a matter of fact, of place names which are expressed in the German language only or to watch fanciful translations in German of place names originally expressed also in the Italian language

    Tutela delle minoranze linguistiche e toponomastica in Croazia

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    Evoluzione del diritto alla toponomastica in lingua minoritaria nell'ordinamento croat

    La toponomastica nel Belgio: lo specchio di un'Odissea costituzionale senza lieto fine

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    Il capitolo ricostruisce la disciplina della toponomastica nel Belgio alla luce dell'odissea costituzionale che ha condotto uno stato unitario sino alle soglie della dissoluzione

    Minority protection and regulation of place names in Croatia

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    Legal analysis of the regulation of place names and use of minority languages in Croati

    Costitutional Transitions and Democratic Consolidation in Asia at the Beginning of the XXI Century

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    Constitutional transitions and democratic consolidation in Asia at the beginning of XXI cenutr
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