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Baker, Doris J., and Mary A. Paterson. "Distributive Justice and the Regulation of Fertility Centers: An Analysis of the Fertility Clinic Success Rate and Certification Act." Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 3, no. 3 (1994): 383–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963180100005211.
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The right to conceive and bear children has been protected both in law and in policy. Human society has from its earliest time valued children and defended procreation as a basic right.Modern health technology offers the possibility of conception to the estimated 2.5 million infertile couples who may wish to have children. For these persons, infertility treatment offers the hope of having children, an activity deemed basic and essential in human society.In general, the state has been reluctant to directly interfere in the reproductive decisions of individuals. However, the state may act to increase or reduce access to reproductive services in a variety of ways. For example, recent legislation regulating fertility clinics affects the distribution of assisted reproductive technology (ART) in the United States. The purpose of this paper is to describe this legislation, project its probable effects on the distribution of ART services, and analyze these effects based on distributive theories of justice.
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Baker, Maureen. "Restructuring reproduction." Journal of Sociology 44, no. 1 (March 2008): 65–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783307085843.
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In 1968, the United Nations began viewing family planning as a human rights issue, relaxing the previous focus on population control. By the 1990s, UN documents empowered women in reproductive matters and urged governments to ensure women's access to a wider range of family planning services. However, after decades of widespread contraceptive usage, below-replacement fertility rates are once again worrying some governments in developed countries. This article traces policy and discourse changes relating to contraception, abortion and fertility decline, focusing on the `liberal' welfare states. Despite international pressure on governments, programs and discourse remain cross-nationally diverse, influenced by domestic politics and the relative strength of competing interest groups arguing about public funding, alternatives to `natural increase', maternal employment and the politics of choice.
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Maher, JaneMaree, and Lise Saugeres. "To be or not to be a mother?" Journal of Sociology 43, no. 1 (March 2007): 5–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783307073931.
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This article is based on a recently completed study of fertility decision-making in Victoria, Australia. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 100 women, it explores how dominant discourses of mothering influence women in their life decisions about children. While much research indicates that all women negotiate dominant ideals of good mothering, our findings suggest that such stereotypes need to be further broken down, since women with and without children respond to different aspects of such ideals. For women who have children, images of the ‘good mother’ are less prevalent than pragmatic concerns about how to manage mothering. Women without children, in contrast, understand mothering as all-encompassing and potentially overwhelming. These findings suggest that Australian women share ideals and assumptions about mothering with their counterparts in the United Kingdom and the United States, but they also point to an increasing gap between how mothering is viewed and how it is practised.
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Ouellette, Alicia, Arthur Caplan, Kelly Carroll, James W. Fossett, Dyrleif Bjarnadottir, Darren Shickle, and Glenn McGee. "Lessons Across the Pond: Assisted Reproductive Technology in the United Kingdom and the United States." American Journal of Law & Medicine 31, no. 4 (December 2005): 419–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009885880503100402.
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Scholars of differing political affiliation and the President's Council on Bioethics have called for regulation of assisted reproductive technology (ART) that would emulate many aspects of the regulatory system of the United Kingdom, in particular that of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. Specifically, scholars and the Council have argued that research in the U.S. involving gametes and human embryos lacks consistent oversight. While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) produces an annual ART success rate report, submission of data is guaranteed only by the promise that non-responders will be noted as such in the appendix of CDC's report, and most ART clinics publish success rates on the Internet in a much more recognized forum: website advertising. Moreover, U.S. law does not require licensing or accreditation of infertility programs and few regulations govern embryo research. While the large majority of clinics report their success rate data, and many follow practice standards and apply for accreditation from private agencies, these practices are strictly voluntary. Clinics failing to report their success rates face no legal consequence.
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Luo, Yingyi, Shelley Marshall, and Denise Cuthbert. "The Human Rights Implications of Not-for-Profit Surrogacy Organizations in Cross-Border Commercial Surrogacy: An Australian Case Study." Business and Human Rights Journal 7, no. 1 (February 2022): 163–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/bhj.2021.49.
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Cross-border surrogacy is a global industry that offers intended parents options for family formation by providing foreign surrogate mothers remuneration, directly or via an intermediary, in excess of their actual out-of-pocket expenses. It is a multi-million-dollar business with no international regulation.1 In most countries, limited domestic regulation or oversight is in place. Many countries − such as Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada, Hong Kong and South Africa − only permit altruistic surrogacy, while Germany and France ban surrogacy entirely.2 Fully legalized commercial surrogacy is the model followed in some states in the United States of America (USA), as well as Georgia and Ukraine.3 This unregulated cross-border market has produced a lucrative business, with surrogacy arrangements growing by nearly 1,000 per cent between 2006 and 2010.4 The for-profit surrogacy sector has expanded and fertility not-for-profit organizations have also entered the market.5
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Ivanov, DMITRY V., and VALERIA V. Pchelintseva. "INTERNATIONAL LAW ASPECTS OF THE POST-BREXIT MIGRATION POLICY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM." Journal of Law and Administration 18, no. 4 (December 30, 2022): 34–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2073-8420-2022-4-65-34-46.
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Introduction. In March 2022, the Home Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain published the Statement on New Immigration Plan according to which persons having no right to reside on its territory would be removed to “safe third countries” according to the agreements with such states. On April 13th, 2022, a Memorandum of Understanding between Great Britain and Rwanda was signed prescribing that persons whose applications for asylum were not considered by Great Britain be removed to Rwanda for those applications to be considered by the latter. Incompatibility of the contemporary immigration policy of Great Britain with its international law obligations justifies the topicality of the assessment of its implications for codification and progressive development of international law. Materials and Methods. The assessment of the contemporary immigration policy of Great Britain from the standpoint of international law includes the matching of the provisions of the international and national acts adopted by Great Britain as well as official statements of its state bodies and officials and the provisions of universal treaties and “soft law” acts. The writings of the publicists studying international law aspects of forced migration, asylum and human rights served as theoretical framework of the present study. Research Results. The assessment of the Memorandum of Understanding reveals the incompatibility of its provisions with the international law norms on asylum and human rights. Such international law policy of the state should be regarded as an example of rejection of international law which is referred to as “international law nihilism” in Russian legal doctrine.Discussions and conclusions. The authors argue that further adoption of legal and political measures contrary to states’ obligations under treaties and international custom as well as the absence of expressed official positions of states with regards to such measures may have an impact on construction and application of international law norms governing legal status of forced migrants.
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Gable, Lance. "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public Health, and the Elusive Target of Human Rights." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 39, no. 3 (2011): 340–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.2011.00604.x.
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The passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in March 2010 represents a significant turning point in the evolution of health care law and policy in the United States. By establishing a legal infrastructure that seeks to achieve universal health insurance coverage in the United States, the ACA targets some of the major impediments to accessing needed health care for millions of Americans and by extension attempts to strengthen the health system to support key determinants of health. Yet, like many newly passed legislative provisions, the ultimate effects and significance of the ACA remain uncertain. Those charged with implementing the ACA face formidable obstacles — indeed, some of the same obstacles that have been erected to impede other major pieces of social legislation in the past — including entrenched political opposition, constitutional challenges, and what will likely be a prolonged struggle over the content and direction of how the law is implemented. As these debates continue, it is nevertheless important to begin to assess the impact that the ACA has already had on health law in the United States and to consider the likely effects that the law will have on public health going forward.
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Haynes, Dina Francesca. "The Celebritization of Human Trafficking." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 653, no. 1 (March 28, 2014): 25–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716213515837.
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Human trafficking, and especially sex trafficking, is not only susceptible to alluring and sensational narratives, it also plays into the celebrity-as-rescuer ideal that receives considerable attention from the media, the public, and policy-makers. While some celebrities develop enough expertise to speak with authority on the topic, many others are neither knowledgeable nor accurate in their efforts to champion antitrafficking causes. Prominent policy-makers allow celebrity activists to influence their opinions and even consult with them for advice regarding public policies. Emblematic of larger, fundamental problems with the dominant discourse, funding allocations, and legislation in current antitrafficking initiatives in the United States and elsewhere, celebrity activism is not significantly advancing the eradication of human trafficking and may even be doing harm by diverting attention from aspects of the problem and solution that sorely require attention.
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Bhatia, Rajani, and Lisa Campo-Engelstein. "The Biomedicalization of Social Egg Freezing." Science, Technology, & Human Values 43, no. 5 (February 1, 2018): 864–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0162243918754322.
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In 2012, two major professional societies representing Europe and the United States released influential statements that would propel a commercial market for social egg freezing (SEF), in which women bank their oocytes for later use in order to avoid compromised fertility that comes with age. While the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) condoned SEF based on reproductive autonomy and justice, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) discouraged SEF based on insufficient data and concerns about false hope. In this article, we map the contexts and discursive moves by which the biomedicalization of SEF proceeded since 2012. We compare professional bioethical arguments that made the case to approve SEF in Europe with news and popular media discourse that formed and shaped the commercial marketization of SEF in the United States despite the recommendation of the ASRM. While a statist pronatalist perspective informed the former, a distinctly private labor market recruitment strategy utilizing a Lean In efficiency model of feminism buttressed the latter.
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Ogbondah, Chris W. "Press Freedom in West Africa: an Analysis of one Ramification of Human Rights." Issue: A Journal of Opinion 22, no. 2 (1994): 21–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047160700501887.
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Human rights is an issue that is broader than ordinarily understood. Its ramifications cover political, economic, social and cultural rights. Almost every nation has made constitutional provisions guaranteeing these rights. The purpose of the constitutional provisions is to defend, by institutionalized means, the rights of human beings against abuses of power committed by the organs and agencies of the state. Notably enough, however, each nation emphasizes those human rights that it frequently respects and observes. Thus, the United States emphasizes, for example, freedom of the press, freedom of expression, freedom of religion as if those aspects that it emphasizes constitute the entire human rights.
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Morozov, V., V. Chukreev, and D. Rizayeva. "Legal regulation of technologically improved people in the United States and China." BRICS Law Journal 9, no. 4 (November 24, 2022): 4–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.21684/2412-2343-2022-9-4-4-20.
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As humanity improves its use of technologies that can replace parts of a biological organism with ones containing mechanical or electronic components, it raises important legal and political issues. For example, the successful implantation of devices in human bodies could lead to the emergence of new cognitive and motor abilities, thereby resulting in the creation of a new class of people. Undoubtedly, this new class of people with extraordinary abilities would require a legal and governmental response. However, the question that arises is what legal rights might be given to these people, considering that they are more similar to machines than to men or women. The following legal aspects are of the utmost importance: the legal rights and responsibilities of cyborgs; the regulation of access to neuroprosthetic devices by third parties; and the limitation of the illegal use of the damaging capabilities of cyborgs. This article examines a number of laws and regulations from various jurisdictions in the United States, the European Union, South Korea and China that apply to cyborg technologies, with a particular focus on a legal doctrine that applies to neuroprostheses.
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Simonet, Loïc. "The Arms Trade Treaty and the osce." Security and Human Rights 25, no. 4 (December 31, 2014): 440–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18750230-02504005.
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Adopted in 2013 by the United Nations and entered into force one year later, the Arms Trade Treaty (att) offers a useful – although imperfect – regulatory framework for international transfers of conventional arms, thus promoting human security and contributing to international and regional peace, security and stability. As the largest regional organization with a strong expertise in assisting States and in capacity-building, also contributing to politico-military aspects of security by developing its own set of norms regulating transfers of conventional arms – some of them already going beyond the Treaty, some others complemented by the att’s provisions –, the osce can do a lot to support and promote the new Treaty and its implementation, through the diversity of the positions expressed by its participating States.
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Harnacke, Caroline. "Disability and Capability: Exploring the Usefulness of Martha Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach for the UN Disability Rights Convention." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 41, no. 4 (2013): 768–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jlme.12088.
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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) aims at empowering people with disabilities by granting them a number of civil and political, but also economic, social, and cultural rights. This is a groundbreaking agreement for all persons with disabilities, especially because it is the first human rights agreement for disabled people, and it is legally binding. For those states who signed it, it also brings various governmental obligations. Implementing the CRPD will clearly be politically challenging and also very expensive for all states, but even more so for poor ones.
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Gudmanian, Artur, Sergiy Yahodzinskyi, Uliana Koshetar, and Liudmyla Orochovska. "Social and economic aspects of environmental problems in the globalized world." E3S Web of Conferences 164 (2020): 11019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202016411019.
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Globalization is the phenomenon that has made quite a loud statement about itself during the last decades of the 20th century and found its representation in the formation of global economic, financial, cultural, legal, and political areas. Having been the conglomerate of various national states for thousands of years, the world’s social, economic, ecological, cultural space is now transforming into space without borders. The formation of global economic relations, ecological, demographic challenges can’t be solved individually, with local measures and means. In the second half of the 20th century, the world faced global problems and crises (ecological, demographic, reorganization of the economic and political world order), which have become the challenges that can’t be solved with the help of local actions. The global community is forced to raise issues about the ecologization of the entire industrial activity taking into account its consequences at all levels: local, national, and international. That’s what common threats and problems require. The sustainable development paradigm requires both reviewing and changing the “human-nature” system and realizing the necessity of preserving nature for ensuring the existence of the next generations. Sustainable development is to provide the transfer to a new economic type – the green economy, which requires significant investments, particularly in the renewable-energy industry, industrial waste treatment, restoration of soil fertility, preservation of forests.
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Fidler, David P. "SARS: Political Pathology of the First Post-Westphalian Pathogen." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 31, no. 4 (2003): 485–505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.2003.tb00117.x.
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In March 2003, the world discovered, again, that I humanity's battle with infectious diseases continues. The twenty-first century began with infectious diseases, especially HIV/AIDS, being discussed as threats to human rights, economic development, and national security. Bioterrorism in the United States in October 2001 increased concerns about pathogenic microbes. The global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in the spring of 2003 kept the global infectious disease challenge at the forefront of world news for weeks. At its May 2003 annual meeting, the World Health organization (WHO) asserted that SARS is “the first severe infectious disease to emerge in the twenty-first century” and “poses a serious threat to global health security, the livelihood of populations, the functioning of health systems, and the stability and growth of economies.”
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BULGAKOVA, MARINA. "THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF APPLICATION OF ISLAMIC ECONOMIC CONCEPT IN MODERN CONDITIONS OF DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIAN ECONOMY." Economic Problems and Legal Practice 18, no. 5 (November 7, 2022): 222–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.33693/2541-8025-2022-18-5-222-226.
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In the current conditions of the functioning of the world community, the aggravation of political confrontation, the ongoing sanctions pressure and the increase in military threats, it becomes necessary to find new vectors for the development of the Russian economy, based not only on import substitution and their own developments, as well as the positive experience of states that have been subjected to economic isolation from European states and the United States of America. In times of crisis, thanks to the human potential of Russia, innovative and breakthrough prospects were formed. The article is devoted to the theoretical aspects of the application of the Islamic economic concept, which is due to the widespread spread of Islam in Russia, the development of Hahal initiatives and Halal enterprises. The author studied the main aspects of Islamic economic theory, the range and prospects for its distribution in the Eurasian economic space, which served as the basis for the formation of promising trends and problematic issues of the application of Islamic economic theory at the current stage of Russia's development.
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Robertson, John A., and Theodore J. Schneyer. "Professional Self-Regulation and Shared-Risk Programs for In Vitro Fertilization." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 25, no. 4 (1997): 283–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.1997.tb01410.x.
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In vitro fertilization (IVF) is now a well-established practice in the field of assisted reproduction. In 1995, over 41,000 IVF cycles were done in the United States, at a cost of more than $300 million. The overall success rate has risen to 22.8 deliveries per 100 egg-retrieval procedures (19.6 deliveries per initiated cycle). As the field has matured, the attention of policy-makers has shifted from questions about the ethical and legal status of human embryos to concerns about providing access and protecting consumers.Three such concerns have emerged. One is the danger that IVF programs will disseminate misleading information about their success rates in order to attract patients. This problem, however, may be alleviated by the publication in late 1997 of the first of annual national and clinic specific reports, based on randomly audited data, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART), and RESOLVE, pursuant to the federal 1992 Fertility Clinic Success Rate and Laboratory Certification Act.
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Pradnyawan, Sofyan Wimbo Agung, Arief Budiono, and Jan Alizea Sybelle. "Aspects of International Law and Human Rights on The Return of The Taliban in Afghanistan." Audito Comparative Law Journal (ACLJ) 3, no. 3 (November 16, 2022): 132–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.22219/aclj.v3i3.23237.
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From 1996 to 2001, the Taliban group ruled over Afghanistan before the 2001 World Trade Center bombing in the USA. Then, this group was overthrown by a military invasion that actually served the interests of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO members. After the absence of strong evidence of the involvement of the Taliban in the 2001 WTC bombing, the United States and its allies began to receive internal and international pressure to immediately withdraw from Afghanistan. This invasion led to the death of many American soldiers. Many survivors suffered from mental disorders. Apart from that, the Afghanistan invasion that went on for 20 years greatly burdened the budget, as its financing reached 31 thousand trillion rupiahs. This study used the normative research method. Results showed that the Taliban's return to power does not violate international law. But in terms of human rights, its return will decrease the human rights index of Afghan citizens. This condition is commonplace in authoritarian countries. This is due to the Taliban’s political attitudes that lack respect for women's rights in the modern era. It also lacks concern for civil rights in a modern democratic state
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Xiao, Jing Jian, Barbara M. Newman, and Bie-shuein Chu. "Career Preparation of High School Students: A Multi-Country Study." Youth & Society 50, no. 6 (March 18, 2016): 818–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0044118x16638690.
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The purpose of this study was to examine factors associated with career preparation of high school students in four countries: China, Japan, South Korea, and the United States. The human bioecological theory was used as a framework to examine personal, process, and context factors associated with career preparation of the adolescents. Data were from a cross-national sample of more than 5,000 students in Grades 10 to 12. Results indicate that career planning and planning to attend a university after high school are distinct aspects of career preparation. Whereas process variables including interactions with parents about career planning and thinking about the future are related to the two aspects of career preparation across the four countries, other person and context predictors show country differences.
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Hren, Nataliya, Mykhailo Kelman, Maiia Pyvovar, Anna Koval, and Yaroslav Melnyk. "Human rights and current discriminatory manifestations (on the example of age discrimination in the social and communicative sphere)." Age of Human Rights Journal, no. 19 (December 19, 2022): 71–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.17561/tahrj.v19.7124.
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The article provides a comprehensive analysis of counteracting human rights violations due to age discrimination in the social and communicative sphere to identify problematic aspects of this discrimination; to study current changes in connection with the pandemic threat and generalize a set of legal guarantees to prevent and counteract inappropriate legal policy in this area. The research is based on a humanistic approach, which determines the individual value criterion of the research methodology and is manifested through the ideology of anthropocentrism; a complementary approach to scientific research and a balanced combination of national and international state-building and law-making principles. A comparative legal method was used, which made it possible to summarize the legal requirements of various states, including the United Arab Emirates, Great Britain, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Colombia, on measures to counteract the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Statistical and information reports of the European Union countries, monitoring of the Equality Representatives of individual countries (Serbia, Lithuania), analytical data, government decisions and practical cases were used.
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Diego, Daniel. "Political Agendas for Education: From Race to the Top to Saving the Planet." World Journal of Educational Research 1, no. 1 (July 3, 2014): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/wjer.v1n1p49.
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<em>Amidst the transition from No Child Left Behind (NCLB) to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the book, Political Agendas for Education: From Race to the top to saving the planet by Joel Spring has discussed issues such as the impact of Race to the Top, the influence of Teach for America (TFA), teacher evaluation and merit pay, Republican reaction and rejection of Race to the Top and the education agenda of the Obama administration, and the benefits reaped by the growing for-profit industry on the United States (U.S.) education system. Simultaneously, the 5th edition has comparatively analyzed Libertarian and Green Party agendas along with the main stream political agendas which have dominated education in the U.S. Furthermore, this book has highlighted aspects of education reform which emphasize environmental sustainability, social and educational equity and freedom with the goal of human and societal health and wellbeing.</em>
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Halliday, Denis J. "The Impact of the UN Sanctions on the People of Iraq." Journal of Palestine Studies 28, no. 2 (January 1, 1999): 29–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2537932.
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The impact of the sanctions regime imposed on Iraq by the member states of the United Nations Security Council since 1990 has many facets. The horrifying human face of malnutrition and death has, quite rightly, been given greatest media and other exposure, but other forms of damage are also severely felt. This article intends briefly to explore some aspects of the impact in an attempt to show a somewhat wider picture of the sanctions catastrophe. While the catastrophe is a thing of the present, it has potentially lasting consequences for the future, not only for the Iraqi people, but for the peace and well-being of the Arab region and the world as a whole.
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Buranok, Sergey Olegovich. "Methodological features of the study of «combat films» in the United States of 1941-1945." Samara Journal of Science 11, no. 1 (March 1, 2022): 246–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.55355/snv2022111215.
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In modern studies on the history of wars, a fairly popular direction is the study of information discourse specifics. A special role in this discourse is played by propaganda through cinematography, which uses images, historical symbols and stable metaphors, the appeal to which can form a certain public reaction. The study of the main aspects of this topic is impossible without recourse to interdisciplinary methods of the humanities, developed as a result of a number of turns in the development of modern humanitarian knowledge, including anthropological, linguistic, cultural, calling to study the perception of the world, human behavior in the past in the totality of socio-economic, political, cultural practices adopted in the studied society at a given time. In addition, an appeal to the methods of historical imagology will make it possible to trace the evolution of the process of visualization and mythologization of the Second World War in US cinematography more accurately. Without the study of the basic principles, methods, mechanisms and tools of this process it is extremely difficult to understand the peculiarities of the development and interaction of cinema and US propaganda at subsequent historical stages and the present. American scientists have achieved significant results in the study of directors creative biographies, in the specifics of their interaction with federal government bodies, and in the analysis of the activities of the Office of War Information in the field of cinematography.
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Manolescu, Dan. "Book Review: Kuzminov, Y., and Yudkevich, M. (2022). Higher Education in Russia. United States: Johns Hopkins University Press." Journal of Practical Studies in Education 4, no. 1 (January 1, 2023): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.46809/jpse.v4i1.61.
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Well aware of the challenges presented by a thorough analysis of the higher education in Russia, Yaroslav Kuzminov and Maria Yudkevich make it very clear in the Preface of the book that their key idea was that “higher education is intrinsically intertwined with everything that happens in society, and thus with various social, economic, and political aspects of society’s functioning.” To this they add when they also point out that, in its turn, the higher education system shapes the intellectual elite by investing in new human capital, by spreading a system of values, and consequently enhancing the capabilities of individuals. As outlined in the same context, the authors focus on the performance of the higher education system with its quantitative, qualitative, and structural components, to which they add a clear explanation of the very design and features of these institutions as they continue to develop and change. The book is organized in 9 chapters, is introduced by a Foreword written by Philip G. Altbach, includes copious notes and references to help the reader fully understand the complexity of issues discussed throughout the volume, in an impeccable translation by Victor Sonkin, with a final revision done by Lisa Unangst.
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Milner, Helen. "Resisting the protectionist temptation: industry and the making of trade policy in France and the United States during the 1970s." International Organization 41, no. 4 (1987): 639–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020818300027636.
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Why were advanced industrial states able to keep their economies relatively open to foreign trade in the 1970s and the early 1980s, despite declining U.S. hegemony and increasing economic difficulties? This article argues that an international-level change affected domestic trade politics and contributed to the maintenance of a liberal trading system. Examining the United States and France, the argument proceeds in two steps, showing first how domestic trade politics were changed and second how this change affected the policy process. Initially, I argue that aspects of the increased international economic interdependence of the postwar period altered domestic trade politics by creating new, anti-protectionist preferences among certain firms. Firms with extensive international ties through exports, multinational production, and global intra-firm trade have come to oppose protectionism, since it is very costly for them. Evidence for these new preferences was apparent among both American and French industries. Despite different contexts, firms in the two countries reacted similarly to the growth of interdependence. Next, I ask whether firms' preferences affected trade policy outcomes and show how these preferences were integrated into the policy process in both countries. Trade policy structures in neither country prevented firms' preferences from affecting the policies adopted. Even in France, a so-called “strong” state, firms' preferences were a key influence on policy. In the trade policy area then, the French and American states did not appear to differ greatly in their susceptibility to industry influence, even though their policy processes were different.
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Adem, Seifudein. "The Master Synthesizer." American Journal of Islam and Society 33, no. 3 (July 1, 2016): 11–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v33i3.251.
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Ali Mazrui was born in 1933 in Mombasa, Kenya. Sent to England in 1955 for his secondary school education, he remained there until he earned hisB.A. (1960, politics and philosophy) with distinction from the University of Manchester. He received his M.A. (1961, government and politics) and Ph.D. (1966, philosophy) from Columbia and Oxford universities, respectively. In Africa, he taught political science at Uganda’s Makerere University College (1963-73), and then returned to the United States to teach at the University of Michigan (1974-91) and New York’s Binghamton University (1991-2014). An avatar of controversy, Mazrui was also legendary for the fertility of his mind. Nelson Mandela viewed him as “an outstanding educationist” 1 and Kofi Annan, former secretary-general of the United Nations, referred to him as “Africa’s gift to the world.”2 Salim Ahmed Salim, former secretary-general of the Organization of African Unity and prime minister of Tanzania wrote: Ali Mazrui provided [many of us] with the illuminating light to understand the reality we have been confronting. He armed us with the tools of engagement and inspired us with his eloquence, clarity of ideas while all the time maintaining the highest degree of humility, respect for fellow human beings, and an unflagging commitment to justice.
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Adem, Seifudein. "The Master Synthesizer." American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 33, no. 3 (July 1, 2016): 11–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajiss.v33i3.251.
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Ali Mazrui was born in 1933 in Mombasa, Kenya. Sent to England in 1955 for his secondary school education, he remained there until he earned hisB.A. (1960, politics and philosophy) with distinction from the University of Manchester. He received his M.A. (1961, government and politics) and Ph.D. (1966, philosophy) from Columbia and Oxford universities, respectively. In Africa, he taught political science at Uganda’s Makerere University College (1963-73), and then returned to the United States to teach at the University of Michigan (1974-91) and New York’s Binghamton University (1991-2014). An avatar of controversy, Mazrui was also legendary for the fertility of his mind. Nelson Mandela viewed him as “an outstanding educationist” 1 and Kofi Annan, former secretary-general of the United Nations, referred to him as “Africa’s gift to the world.”2 Salim Ahmed Salim, former secretary-general of the Organization of African Unity and prime minister of Tanzania wrote: Ali Mazrui provided [many of us] with the illuminating light to understand the reality we have been confronting. He armed us with the tools of engagement and inspired us with his eloquence, clarity of ideas while all the time maintaining the highest degree of humility, respect for fellow human beings, and an unflagging commitment to justice.
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Chu, Lan T. "God is Not Dead or Violent: The Catholic Church, Just War, and the “Resurgence” of Religion." Politics and Religion 5, no. 2 (July 30, 2012): 419–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1755048312000090.
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AbstractWhile scholars have recognized a resurgence of religion, their focus mainly has been on religion's more violent aspects, overlooking its peaceful capacities and effects. This oversight is due in part to the lack of theoretical rigor when it comes to the study of politics and religion. Using the Catholic Church's opposition to the United States’ 2003 war in Iraq, this article highlights the political significance of religion's moral, symbolic voice, which is as important as the hard power that has traditionally dominated international relations. The post-Vatican II Catholic Church's modern articulation of human dignity and interpretation of just war theory challenges both scholars and policymakers to utilize the peaceful, diplomatic methods that international relations theory and practitioners have made available. Religion's role in politics, therefore, can be one that is supportive of modern political societies and it need not be violent.
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Arsenyev, Igor A. "Corporations and human rights - new challenges and solutions." Journal of Law and Administration 15, no. 3 (December 2, 2019): 64–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2073-8420-2019-3-52-64-70.
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Introduction. The article examines the issues of legal personality related to human rights in international and national law and whether these relations are limited by the interaction of the state and the individual.Since 2016 the United States has been investigating alleged Russian meddling in the US election, which, in addition to hacker attacks, might have been carried out through social networks and services owned by the American multinational corporations – Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, etc. Discussions in the Senate shed light on the business activities of the companies themselves which had an opportunity to manipulate and most likely manipulated the public consciousness, which is a violation of the basic human rights to freedom of choice, freedom of the media and others. At the same time this activity occurred with the alleged observance of legislation and contract law.The article discusses various aspects of the activities of Google and Facebook during a number of American electoral campaigns as evidence of corporate human rights violations.Materials and methods. The methodological basis of the study comprises general scientific (analysis, analogy, comparison) and special methods of researching legal phenomena and processes (method of interpretation of legal norms, technical-legal, formal-legal and formal-logical methods).The results of the study. Nowadays Corporations have reached a level of influence comparable to that of the states. But if for economists or political scientists there is no question of including companies in the legal personality structure, lawyers still have doubts. The analysis shows that the traditional approach to human rights as a relationship exclusively between the state and the individual does not fully meet modern realities. The person of legal relations is a participant in interaction regulated by the rules of law. The electoral campaigns in the United States in recent years show that large transnational corporations are able to violate the fundamental rights of the person enshrined in the constitution while observing secondary norms designed to ensure their implementation as well as contract law concerning user agreements.Discussion and conclusions. The necessity of considering human rights in the system of relations “state corporation – physical individual” was substantiated. The conclusion is made that corporations are a threat to the observance of human rights. The topicality of researching the American experience regarding Internet companies influencing the electoral processes in Russia was shown.
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Moch, Leslie Page. "Migration and the Nation." Social Science History 28, no. 1 (2004): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0145553200012724.
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The theme of this year’s meeting, “International Perspectives on Social Science History,” rises out of two realities. The first is the recognized international character of phenomena under study, such as fertility decline, political contention, family strategies in response to changing conditions, gendered work, migration, labor, and policing. The second is the way in which the Social Science History Association (SSHA) operates across borders and among scholars in the Americas, Europe, and Asia to investigate common scholarly problems. The attention of migration scholars is now focused on global movements of people and international migrations, particularly immigration. The politics and policies of receiving newcomers are very important now–in the Americas and in Europe. The SSHA is giving its attention to the old and new international immigrants to the United States, as in last year’s session on Nancy Foner’s fine book on New York,From Ellis Island to JFK(2000), and the presidential address by Caroline Brettell (2002) on the quantitative and qualitative methods by which we can understand human movement.
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Guo, Lei, Shih-Hsien Hsu, Avery Holton, and Sun Ho Jeong. "A case study of the Foxconn suicides." International Communication Gazette 74, no. 5 (July 17, 2012): 484–503. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748048512445155.
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This study used an international perspective to analyze how newspapers in the United States and China framed a specific global sweatshop issue: a continuous spate of suicides at the Foxconn Technology Group, a major supplier to Apple, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard. Through a quantitative and qualitative analysis of 92 newspaper articles appearing in US and Chinese newspapers, this study found Chinese newspapers framed the suicides mainly as the psychological problems of a young generation rather than a sweatshop issue. Newspapers in the US used a traditional human rights abuser frame to portray the suicides. Foxconn was the main social actor cited in most news coverage. Both the US and Chinese newspapers framed the case as a China-specific problem, ignoring global social justice and world economy aspects. This study contributes more broadly to framing research by developing an approach that is distinctly used for cross-cultural framing studies about a global issue.
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Lemke, Melinda. "Trafficking and Immigration Policy: Intersections, Inconsistencies, and Implications for Public Education." Educational Policy 31, no. 6 (July 8, 2017): 743–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0895904817719528.
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A growing body of interdisciplinary research examines the dynamics of, policies concerning, and implications of large-scale contemporary displacement in the United States. Yet less of this research explores the intersections of policies concerned with and normative understandings of displacement as both relate to U.S. schooling. This article discusses distinctive features of global displacement also highlighting concerns about student experience within the current political climate. It then synthesizes key U.S. policies and interdisciplinary literature that address aspects of displacement, including immigration, human trafficking, and asylum. In doing so, it illuminates how laws designed to protect vulnerable youth populations often conflict with the goals and normative politics of immigration enforcement. It concludes with implications for educational policy research and practice within U.S. schools serving high percentages of displaced populations.
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Lima Júnior, Oswaldo Pereira, and Edna Raquel Hogemann. "“The Handmaid’s Tale”: (de)personification as an epistemical-moral dimension, founder of the condition of subject of law for women." ANAMORPHOSIS - Revista Internacional de Direito e Literatura 5, no. 1 (June 11, 2019): 69–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.21119/anamps.51.69-93.
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The suppression of the moral and juridical status of the woman is discussed hereby, as an extension of the process of depersonification of the human being in the work The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood. Offred’s story unfolds in a dystopian future where women are the main victims of a new political order. In a United States transformed into the Gilead dictatorship, in the face of eventual loss of fertility by the female population, women are divided into castes and practically lose their rights over themselves, becoming the property of men. Personalization means more than observing rights to the biological being, it is a dialectical process in which individuality and rationality flirt with the inscription of moral importance. This process, being built in the instances of practical philosophy, is prior to the definitions of Law, characterizing itself as a moral construct. Personally, the human being happens to be accepted as the impregnable subject of the Law, which has precisely in the entity of the person its nucleus and the very meaning of its existence. This essay works with the idea of person as a complex being, as in the works by Immanuel Kant (1785), Lucien Sève (1994), Raquel Hogemann (2015) and Oswaldo Pereira de Lima Junior (2017).
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Kohona, Palitha T. B. "Some Notable Developments in the Practice of the UN Secretary-General as Depositary of Multilateral Treaties: Reservations and Declarations." American Journal of International Law 99, no. 2 (April 2005): 433–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1562508.
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This Note will examine developments in the practice of the United Nations secretary-general on reservations and declarations to treaties, particularly since 1994 when the Summary of Practice of the Secretary-General as Depositary of Multilateral Treaties was last updated. This period was marked by some notable developments in the previous practice, especially in connection with human rights treaties.The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties of 1969 (Vienna Convention) provides the framework for the functions of the secretary-general in his role as depositary of multilateral treaties. Most aspects of the law relating to reservations and declarations to treaties are also codified in the Vienna Convention.Over five hundred multilateral treaties are deposited with the secretary-general. The complex requirements relating to these treaties and the concerns of the many disparate states that may undertake treaty actions with regard to them have significantly influenced his practice. He is also conscious of the political sensitivities surrounding his decisions and the need to protect his own integrity and impartiality.
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Bandy, Jack, and Nicholas Diakopoulos. "Auditing News Curation Systems: A Case Study Examining Algorithmic and Editorial Logic in Apple News." Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 14 (May 26, 2020): 36–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7277.
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This work presents an audit study of Apple News as a sociotechnical news curation system that exercises gatekeeping power in the media. We examine the mechanisms behind Apple News as well as the content presented in the app, outlining the social, political, and economic implications of both aspects. We focus on the Trending Stories section, which is algorithmically curated, and the Top Stories section, which is human-curated. Results from a crowdsourced audit showed minimal content personalization in the Trending Stories section, and a sock-puppet audit showed no location-based content adaptation. Finally, we perform an extended two-month data collection to compare the human-curated Top Stories section with the algorithmically-curated Trending Stories section. Within these two sections, human curation outperformed algorithmic curation in several measures of source diversity, concentration, and evenness. Furthermore, algorithmic curation featured more “soft news” about celebrities and entertainment, while editorial curation featured more news about policy and international events. To our knowledge, this study provides the first data-backed characterization of Apple News in the United States.
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Drzewicki, Krzysztof. "Advisability and feasibility of establishing a complaints mechanism for minority rights." Security and Human Rights 21, no. 2 (2010): 93–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187502310791305909.
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AbstractIt has been suggested by a number of experts, states and international organizations that an effective protection of the rights of persons belonging to national minorities requires establishing a complaints mechanism for minority rights. Taking this as a point of departure the paper focused on the questions of the advisability and feasibility of the proposal. For the assessment of the advisability aspects supporting conclusions were identified in the experience of human rights and minority-related complaints systems in the United Nations and European frameworks. This paper further discusses a choice of a model for complaints mechanism and favours the one integrated with the Framework Convention on National Minorities. It is also submitted that the normative quality of the Framework Conventions, substantially increased through the reporting procedure in recent decade, strengthens the model based on the FCNM. Among feasibility questions the paper discusses legal basis for establishing the complaints mechanism and its basic procedural modalities. The most important conclusion inferred from the feasibility-related arguments points to the preference of a collective and not individual complaints system. Now it remains for the states to show if there is a sufficient willingness to enter negotiation on the proposed mechanism and put it into effect.
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Bland, Andrew M. "Existential Givens in the COVID-19 Crisis." Journal of Humanistic Psychology 60, no. 5 (July 10, 2020): 710–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022167820940186.
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COVID-19 confronts humanity with an undeniable, unprecedented crisis. The focus of this article is the opportunities it offers for a proverbial pressing of the reset button by prompting pause and reflection on habitual patterns and serving as an “urgent experience” with the potential to spark revitalizing intentionality. Using Greening’s four dialectical existential givens— life/death, community/isolation, freedom/determinism, and meaning/absurdity—as a guiding framework, I explore imbalances in aspects of life in the United States that have been illuminated by COVID-19. Then, I employ existential–humanistic theorizing and research as a vision of how these dialectical forces can be transcended by confronting paradoxes posed by these givens (vs. simplistically overemphasizing either their positive or their negative aspects) and by activating the creative potential therein. Specifically, COVID-19 offers opportunities for individuals to relinquish an unsustainable and ineffective way of being inherent in and reinforced by the U.S. cultural narrative; to embrace ambiguity and tragedy; to actively identify, remediate, and reconcile underacknowledged and underactualized human capacities; and therefore to heal false dichotomies and become more capable of living fully, authentically, and flexibly. Accordingly, COVID-19 also provides opportunities for collective co-creation of a cultural narrative involving evolution toward enhanced senses of consciousness and caring.
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Nguyễn, An Hữu, and Phương Mai Lê Duy. "Dilemmas of the involvement of Anthropology in War: The case of the Human Terrain System." Hue University Journal of Science: Social Sciences and Humanities 129, no. 6B (June 10, 2020): 53–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.26459/hueuni-jssh.v129i6b.5679.
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The involvement of anthropology in warfare has a long history. Anthropologists’ performance helps to bridge the gap of cultural awareness of the military in wartime, providing soldiers an understanding of foreign local cultures where they deploy. The establishment of the Human Terrain System is also within the purpose, aiming to fulfill the need of conducting anthropology research on the life of Iraqis and Afghans for the sake of wars in which the United States has involved. This paper attempts to provide a deep look at dilemmas of the involvement of anthropology in wars through systematically reviewing criticism imposed on the Human Terrain System, which is seen as the most controversial program in the history of American anthropology. The Human Terrain System was put under pressure on nine aspects comprising: organizational, financial, institutional, professional, military-strategic, methodological, scholarly, ethical, political. Ethical debates have focused on whether the Human Terrain System achieves golden principles “do no harm” and “informed consent” in anthropology research on battlefields. The advocates claimed that what the organization did is consistent with codes of ethics, whereas the majority of anthropologists violated the codes. Furthermore, what the Human Terrain System did has been considered as challenges for anthropologists and generated negative effects on the anthropological profession.
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Muraleedharan, Vishnu, and Thomas Andrew Bryer. "Refugee Crisis and the Role of NGO Lobbying." Public Policy And Administration 19, no. 1 (May 6, 2020): 22–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ppaa.19.1.25148.
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Migration is a significant human phenomenon in which the people were moving across the globe in search of better living conditions. However, due to the violent political scenario between nations forced the displacement of millions of people for survival and currently, around 70.8 million people have been displaced across the world (UNHCR, 2019). It requires attention that even though there are various organisation’s to support migrants, NGO’s play a pivotal role in protecting humanitarian aspects of the migrants and their integration. About the NGO mechanisms, the significant measures are the lobbying and the mediatised political communication for effective policy changes. Therefore, it is significant to identify how NGO’s influence on political communication and policy decision making using social media platforms and lobbying mechanism in the state of Florida in the United States. The article aims to identify the role of NGO on addressing the migrant crisis and upholding of sanctuary policy in Florida which facilitates migrant integration. Research methods include a qualitative interview with the Florida Immigrant Coalition and their social media discourse. The finding could be useful for effective immigrant integration and the significant policy measures needed for facilitating migrant integration.
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Spyros, Roukanas. "Measuring Economic Development and the Impact of Economic Globalisation." Studies in Business and Economics 15, no. 3 (December 1, 2020): 185–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/sbe-2020-0053.
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Abstract The aim of this article is to measure economic development and the impact of economic globalisation under the prism of global political economy. Global political economy is a field of study that has its roots in international relations. The growth of world economic transactions after the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in the 1970s created the need for a new field of study, in order to explain the interdependence between politics and economics on the international level. Global political economy is the field of study that also examines the implications of economic globalisation for national economies and for the global economy. The concept of economic development is broader than economic growth, which is related to GDP growth. The concept of economic globalisation has changed the prospects of economic development for certain developed and developing economies. The main changes of economic globalisation are closely related to the following aspects of national economies: trade, finance, and production. The analysis of this article will reveal the effects of economic globalisation on different aspects of economic development. These aspects are studied under the prism of indexes such as Financial Development Index, openness to trade, Human Development Index, the GINI Index and other inequality indexes. The aftermath of the global economic crisis of 2007-2008 placed at the epicentre the interdependence of national economies and the issue of economic inequalities. The study of the aforementioned indexes will highlight the alterations that have occurred from the manifestation of the global economic crisis until today. The article is focusing on the following countries: China, Germany, Greece, and the United States for the last decade (2009-2019), on the basis of the available data.
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Warbrick, Colin. "Materials on International Human Rights and United States Constitutional Law. By Hurst Hannum, with the collaboration of Richard B. Lellich. [Washington: Procedural Aspects of International Law Institute. 1985. iii + 116 pp. $7·50]." International and Comparative Law Quarterly 35, no. 1 (January 1986): 209–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/iclqaj/35.1.209.
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Maantay, Juliana. "Zoning Law, Health, and Environmental Justice: What’s the Connection?" Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 30, no. 4 (2002): 572–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.2002.tb00427.x.
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Zoning laws determine what types of land uses and densities can occur on each property lot in a municipality, and therefore also govern the range of potential environmental and health impacts resulting from the land use. Zoning regulations are the most ubiquitous of the land use laws in the United States, as well as in many other countries. As such, they have far-reaching effects on the location of noxious uses, and any concomitant environmental or human health impacts.Zoning has enormous implications, in general, for shaping our environment, and because changes to zoning are made through a political process, it has possibilities for abuse. One zoning expert stated:I suppose what really disturbs me is that because zoning is the most universal of the legal tools for shaping the character of the municipality, any unwise use of the process has a far greater impact upon our national character than does the abuse of a less widely employed device.
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Lieberman, Leonard, Rodney C. Kirk, and Michael Corcoran. "The decline of race in American physical anthropology." Anthropological Review 66 (June 30, 2003): 3–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1898-6773.66.01.
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This paper is a review of how and why the race concept has changed in the United States during the 20th century. In the 19th century the concept of race provided the unchallenged folk taxonomy and the prevailing scientific paradigm for placing human biological and cultural variation into categories called races. At the height of the eugenic and anti-immigration movement of the early decades of the 20th century, Boas and his students began the critique of racism and aspects of the race concept. In the early 1950s Washburn proposed that the modern synthesis replace race typology with the study of processes and populations. In the 1960s new data on clinal genetic gradations provided tools for studying human variation while challenging the race concept. We present several kinds of documentation of the decline of the race concept over the 20th century, and place the above changes in the context of the essential development of new genetic evidence. We also relate the decline of race to historical developments, the growth of the culture concept, and the biographies of the participants. We reject political correctness and view science as a self-correcting endeavor to relate concepts to the empirical world.
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Shvetsova, A. V., and Yu A. Fomin. "Professionalism and Amateurism in Modern Olympic Sports." Humanities and Social Sciences. Bulletin of the Financial University 12, no. 1 (February 9, 2022): 139–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.26794/2226-7867-2022-12-1-139-144.
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The Olympic Games were not the only major sporting event in ancient Greek civilisation. The Nemean, Pythian and Isthmian Games were held simultaneously. After the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896, modern Olympic sport has passed a difficult, albeit not so long-term path. But even earlier, around the middle of the XIX century, professional sports began to form in the developed countries of Europe and the United States. The appearance of professional athletes, both in the ancient world and in modern history, was essentially the result of those significant changes that occurred in the economic, social and political aspects of human life at the stages of its development and the evolution of sports competitions. It can be argued that professional sports (both in ancient and modern times) arose as a particular human activity, the content of which was sports. However, the problem of amateurs and professionalism in modern Olympic sports and the Olympic movement was one of the most significant in the context of introducing Olympic ideals into the life of society, solving the problem of “fair play” and allowing athletes to participate in major international competitions (Olympic Games, World Championships, etc.).
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London, Alex John. "A Non-Paternalistic Model of Research Ethics and Oversight: Assessing the Benefits of Prospective Review." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 40, no. 4 (2012): 930–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.2012.00722.x.
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To judge from the rash of recent law review articles, it is a miracle that research with human subjects in the U.S. continues to draw breath under the asphyxiating heel of the rent-seeking, creativity-stifling, jack-booted bureaucrethics that is the current system of research ethics oversight and review. Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), sometimes called Research Ethics Committees (RECs), have been accused of perpetrating “probably the most widespread violation of the First Amendment in our nation's history,” resulting in a “disaster, not only for academics, but for the whole nation.” One member of the President's Council on Bioethics went so far as to assert, “There has been no greater damage to academic freedom in the United States in my lifetime. And my lifetime encompasses McCarthy and it encompasses political correctness, both.” Locked in the bureaucratic “iron cage” of IRB oversight, critics charge that researchers have been transformed into a vulnerable, exposed population, subject to domination, that has been likened in one case to a kind of “Tuskegee in reverse.”
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Topilina, Anna. "Demographic and Economic Potential of Migration from Latin America." DEMIS. Demographic Research 1, no. 3 (September 19, 2021): 23–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.19181/demis.2021.1.3.3.
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The article examines the demographic and economic potential of organizing a new migration flow from LatinAmerica to Russia. In the context of the demographic crisis in which Russia is located, and the low fertility of Russian women, scientists see the only way to preserve and increase the population of the Russian Federation – migration. However, the quality and level of migration that exists in Russia today is problematic. Migrants from the former Soviet republics form ethnic enclaves, do not want to assimilate, and damage the Russian economy by withdrawing funds outside the Russian Federation. Under these conditions, the author proposes to organize an irrevocable migration from Latin American countries, which will solve the demographic problem by naturalizing Latinos who are mentally close to Russians, and stabilize the Russian economy due to the influx of workers, as well as a significant reduction in money transfers abroad due to the low exchange rate of the ruble against the dollar, and, in this regard, the unattractiveness of Russia as a donor of material resources. At the same time, the organization of this migration flow will “unload” the region. Russia will accept migrants who want to leave their countries that are in political and economic crisis, but whose entry into the territory of neighboring states and the United States is difficult. The organization of this migration flow will also help the Russian Federation to gain geopolitical partners in the problematic region. The author examines all the positive and negative aspects of the organization of this migration flow, presents applied technologies for organizing migration from Latin America. The author uses statistical materials, scientific research data and publications in the media that reflect the content of the studied problems. The material of this article is a project, the organization of which will require further study and significant methodological efforts. The proposed concept of organizing irrevocable migration from Latin American countries can be a way out of the complex crisis that has developed in Russia and in Latin American countries.
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Perry, Richard, Kayla Mills, Janet H. Ford, and Zach McCosh. "PP51 Strengths And Limitations Of Migraine Management Guidelines In The USA and Europe: A Targeted Literature Review." International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 38, S1 (December 2022): S57—S58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266462322001908.
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IntroductionMigraine, the second leading cause of disability worldwide, remains underdiagnosed and undertreated. Considering the high burden of migraine, we analyzed the strengths and limitations of existing migraine management guidelines.MethodsA targeted literature review was conducted using MEDLINE on 24 March 2021 to identify current migraine management guidelines (including policies and position statements) published in the English language from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the USA. This was supplemented by a gray literature search. Disease state or pharmacological management guidelines for adults with migraine comprising any of the following perspectives were included: health economics; payer; health technology assessment; treatment access; and impact of guideline implementation on economic or disease burden. Guidelines were analyzed using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) policy analytical framework, which comprises three domains: problem identification, policy analysis, and strategy or policy development, with ranking criteria for each.ResultsOf 39 selected guidelines, 25 adequately identified problems related to migraine, 35 sufficiently reviewed the literature on migraine treatment, three failed to cite literature, and one lacked sufficient content. Twenty-three guidelines targeted healthcare professionals. Almost all guidelines lacked a stepwise migraine treatment approach; only the American Academy of Family Physicians guideline offered first- and second-line treatment options. Four guidelines mentioned current political forces, and coverage of economic or budgetary impact aspects was limited. Numerous guidelines described the substantial economic burden of migraine and were categorized as ‘high’ for benefits. Public health impact was categorized as ‘high’ for 28 guidelines and budgetary impact was rated as ‘more favorable’ for 27 guidelines. Thirteen guidelines defined a strategy for the intended purpose. Only the United States Department of Health and Human Services pain management guideline met all of the CDC criteria.ConclusionsFuture policies on migraine management may benefit from the inclusion of information on economic data, political feasibility, and public health impact. Furthermore, migraine management guidelines could potentially be improved by considering a comprehensive treatment approach and guideline implementation, as well as addressing knowledge gaps in disease state, public health, and economic aspects.
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Swaak-Goldman, Olivia Q. "Who Defines Members' Security Interest in the WTO?" Leiden Journal of International Law 9, no. 2 (June 1996): 361–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0922156596000246.
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The European Community (EC) has recently announced its decision to begin dispute-resolution procedures in the World Trade Organization (WTO) against the United States (US) because of the latter's passage of the so-called ‘Helms-Burton’ law, which tightens the sanctions against Cuba by means of extraterritorial application. This will, in all probability, offer the WTO an ideal opportunity to define the limits of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade's (GATT) security exception. The security exception, contained in GATT Article XXI, is also included in other agreements annexed to the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO Agreement), such as the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs). It provides an exception from all GATT (as well as GATS and TRIPs) obligations, including the all-important ‘most-favoured-nation’ non-discrimination rule. The security interests at issue must be those of a political, rather than an economic, nature. It should be noted that because there is no human rights and democracy exception to the GATT or other agreements annexed to the WTO Agreement, trade restrictions that are based either in whole or in part on these concerns, such as the measures against Cuba, are usually justified on the basis of the security exception.
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Tatari, Eren. "Muslims and Arabs in Western Politics." American Journal of Islam and Society 22, no. 4 (October 1, 2005): 150–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v22i4.1678.
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The “Muslims and Arabs in Western Politics” conference, held at IndianaUniversity, Bloomington, on September 22-24, 2005 and organized byAbdulkader Sinno (assistant professor, political science and Middle Easternstudies, Indiana University), was highly enriching and intellectually stimulating.The two public lectures and five panels, ranging from civil rights and libertiesto public perceptions of Muslims, shed light on various aspects of thecomplexities of this field and acquainted the participants with cutting-edgeresearch by leading scholars from North America and Western Europe.James Zogby and David Cole delivered the two public lectures on “TheEmergent Arab-American Political Constituency” and “Paradigms ofPrevention: The Rule of Law and the War on Terror,” respectively. Zogby covered the development of the Arab-American community’s politicalmobilization and inclusion in mainstream American politics throughout thetwentieth century. He narrated his personal experience as a Lebanese immigrantwho had experienced the “hard times” of discrimination and exclusion.In addition, he reported on the significant increase in the political mobilizationof Muslim minorities in the United States over the last few decades,combined with a growing interest from politicians. His speech ended on apositive note: He is convinced that the community’s trajectory will continueto move forward. On the other hand, David Cole’s talk focused on the stateof constitutional law after 9/11. He argued that substantial negative inroadshave been made to the five pillars of the rule of law, namely, equality beforethe law, transparency of procedures, fairness of procedures, checks and balances,and commitment to basic human rights ...
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Varnavskii, V. "The Chinese Phenomenon of Economic Growth." World Economy and International Relations 66, no. 1 (2022): 5–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.20542/0131-2227-2022-66-1-5-15.
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Modern China should be considered as an unique experiment and great world project of human civilization, effectively a co-product of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the West. The centuries-old concept of a free-market economy fell on fertile ground of the hardworking Chinese people and in a short historical period since the beginning of the reform has finally bore fruit. Globalization and digitalization have greatly helped the Chinese economy to expand around the world and have become powerful catalysts for Chinese economic development, providing it with new approaches to doing business. The article attempts to analyze this phenomenon and systematize the factors of China’s growth. Key aspects of the Chinese economy transformation are studied, such as GDP (in current and constant prices) and GNI per capita, manufacturing and trade, finance and capital. Special attention is paid to the global leadership role of China or/and the USA: Economy, Manufacturing, and International Trade. An in-depth comparative analysis of the economic growth indicators for China and the USA is based on extensive international statistical data. The author focuses on estimates of key indicators published by international bodies, such as the United Nations, UNCTAD, UNIDO, OECD, WTO and others. Various think tanks, independent agencies and other institutions such as McKinsey Global Institute, Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations RAS, Congressional Research Service (CRS), United States–China Economic and Security Review Commission, Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) have been analyzing Chinese phenomenon of economic growth. Quantitative assessments of China’s economic growth are discussed. As shown, China plays a major role in the world economy and manufacturing. It is now the world’s first country by many economic indicators. In 2007, China became the world’s largest merchandise exporter. In 2009, it took the 1st place in manufacturing value-added output. Measured by purchasing power parity (PPP), in 2017 China stood as the world-largest economy in terms of GDP in current US dollars. Over the past decade, China has provided at least 30 percent of global GDP growth, while the United States was half as much. China is in the world’s top two for receiving and being the source of foreign direct investment (FDI). In 2020, China had 124 Global Fortune 500 companies compared to 121 American. At the same time, the US remains the world leader in many other quantitative indicators, for example in GDP at official exchange rates, innovation, research and development, finance, and services. It also ranks first in the world in terms of quality indicators of economic development. The author gives his vision of the China’s economic growth fundamental factors. Four of them are identified: a) low labor costs, b) well-designed legal environment for attracting foreign capital, c) massive FDI influx, d) imports of capital goods as well as modern Western technologies, including transfer of critical technologies, intellectual property and know-how (mainly through acquisition of Western firms). The general conclusion is that the reforms completely transformed the lives of Chinese people. China of the 1970s 80s and today’s China are two different economic, industrial, scientific, technical, socio-humanitarian entities.