Author: Katarina TomaševskiPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900448230X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
The Right to Food
Author: Katarina TomaševskiPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900448230X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Terrorism, Criminal Law and Politics
Author: Julia JanssonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367726898
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Recent atrocities have ensured that terrorism and how to deal with terrorists legally and politically has been the subject of much discussion and debate on the international stage. This book presents a study of changes in the legal treatment of those perpetrating crimes of a political character over several decades. It most centrally deals with the political offence exception and how it has changed. The book looks at this change from an international perspective with a particular focus on the United States. Interdisciplinary in approach, it examines the fields of terrorism and political crime from legal, political science and criminological perspectives. It will be of interest to a broad range of academics and researchers, as well as to policymakers involved in creating new anti-terrorist policies.
My LSE
Author: Joan AbsePublisher: Robson Books Limited
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Human Rights in the World Community
Author: Richard Pierre ClaudePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812213966
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Less Than a Roar
The East German Revolution of 1989
Author: Gareth DalePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719074776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book offers a new account of the East German Revolution of 1989 and uncovers hitherto neglected events and phases of this tumultuous period. It draws upon published and unpublished primary sources, including twenty-five interviews with oppositionists, movement participants and state officials, as well as archive materials from the Stasi, police, SED and civic groups. It brings to prominence previously unexplored events, including the 'battle of Dresden station,' the 'December uprising' and the strike wave of January 1990. In addition, as a resident of East Germany in the late 1980s and an active participant in the civic groups and street protests of 1989, Gareth Dale succeeds in bringing an immediacy and vividness to the narrative.
Big Business, Poor Peoples
Author: John MadeleyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1848133758
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Transnational corporations are one of the most important actors in the global economy, occupying a more powerful position than ever before. In their persistent battle to increase profits, they have increasingly turned to the developing world, a world that holds many attractions for them. But what is their impact on the poor? Now in its second edition, Big Business, Poor Peoples finds that these corporations are damaging the lives of millions of poor people in developing countries. Looking at every sector where transnational corporations are involved, this vital book is packed with detail on how the poor are affected. The book exposes how developing countries' natural resources are being ceded to TNCs and how governments are unwilling or unable to control them. The author argues that TNCs, answerable to no one but their shareholders, have used their money, size and power to influence international negotiations and taken full advantage of the move towards privatization to influence government policies; sovereignty is passing into corporate hands, and the poor are paying the price. But people are fighting back: citizens, workers, and communities are exposing the corporations and looking for alternatives. The first edition of this path-breaking book put the issue of transnational corporations and the poor firmly on the agenda. This second edition contains significant new and updated material and is an essential read for anyone who wants to know more about the effects of corporate power on the poor.
The Right to Food
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251041772
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
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Criminal Networks and Law Enforcement
Author: Saskia HufnagelPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135117617X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
This collection presents an analysis of illicit networks and discusses implications for law enforcement and crime prevention. The contributors draw on a range of methodologies and apply them to diverse international criminological settings, from illegal fishing in the Indo-Pacific to ‘money mule’ networks in the Netherlands. Using a variety of examples, the book elucidates how and why criminals form networks of cooperation and how they can be disrupted. It is expected to be of interest to those who study criminology or criminal law, as well as law enforcement practitioners.
Social Rights and Economics
Author: Varun GauriPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0404262856
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The author analyzes contemporary rights-based and economic approaches to health care and education in developing countries. He assesses the foundations and uses of social rights in development, outlines an economic approach to improving health and education services, and then highlights the differences, similarities, and the hard questions that the economic critique poses for rights. The author argues that the policy consequences of rights overlap considerably with a modern economic approach. Both the rights-based and the economic approaches are skeptical that electoral politics and de facto market rules provide sufficient accountability for the effective and equitable provision of health and education services, and that further intrasectoral reforms in governance, particularly those that strengthen the hand of service recipients, are needed. There remain differences between the two approaches. Whether procedures for service delivery are ends in themselves, the degree of disaggregation at which outcomes should be assessed, the consequences of long-term deprivation, metrics used for making tradeoffs, and the behavioral distortions that result from subsidies are all areas where the approaches diverge. Even here, however, the differences are not irreconcilable, and advocates of the approaches need not regard each other as antagonists.
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