Search results for "Human right"

Inquisitio Contra Haereticos. The Inquisition Trials of Witches, Heretics and Secret Societies

2022

By means of very rare manuscripts and precious historical sources (dating back even to the 16th century), this book aims to reconstruct the varied and complex phenomenon of the Inquisition, with particular scientific reference to the events that took place and unfolded in Sicily through the centuries. Based on primary ancient documents, it constitutes a monographic and reasoned catalogue of the international exhibition on the evolution of the Inquisition, curated in Palermo (Italy) by Francesco Callari and Antonio Scaglione. The exhibition, which was supported by an authoritative Scientific Board, was awarded important institutional recognitions and, in particular, the Medal of the Presiden…

The Review Power of the Supreme Court of the People’s Republic of China on Death Penalty Cases

2008

Legal Science: Functions, Significance and Futurein Legal Systems II: Collection of Research Papers in Conjunction with the 7th International Scienti…

2020

Misrecognizing Asylum. Causes, modalities and consequences of the crisis of a fundamental human right.

2017

The so-called contemporary refugee crisis can be defined as a European “right to asylum crisis”, a crisis of its fundamental principles: the protection of asylum seekers’ rights and the related principle of non-refoulement. Modalities and trends marking the recognition of asylum applicants as refugees, and of migrants as asylum seekers, will be considered along with the current implementation of the notion of a “safe country” within the context of EU texts on migration developed since 2015. This “right to asylum crisis” is then briefly analyzed as both a symptom and a cause of the European Union project’s wider political and cultural crisis.

Value congruence in health care priority setting: social values, institutions and decisions in three countries

2014

AbstractMost developed democracies have faced the challenge of priority setting in health care by setting up specialized agencies to take decisions on which medical services to include in public health baskets. Under the influence of Daniels and Sabin’s seminal work on the topic, agencies increasingly aim to fulfil criteria of procedural justice, such as accountability and transparency. We assume, however, that the institutional design of agencies also and necessarily reflects substantial value judgments on the respective weight of distributive principles such as efficiency, need and equality. The public acceptance of prioritization decisions, and eventually of the health care system at lar…

The Role of the Country of Origin Expert in Judicial Proceedings

2021

The country of origin expert is gradually becoming a central figure in legal procedures, particularly for what concerns the assessment of cases of international protection. Judges, lawyers, and legal practitioners in general increasingly recognise the relevance of this figure, and in their pronouncements, judges frequently rely on specialized information provided by these experts, so as to shed light on particular aspects of the country of origin of those who apply for asylum. The logic that underlies this recent development is as intuitive as it is revealing, for it entails the notion that first-hand experience and acquired knowledge of the legal, social, religious and political facets of …

Le parole dell'asilo: un diritto di confine

2021

Chi riesce ad attraversare le frontiere dell’Unione europea per chiedere asilo deve rispondere adeguatamente a domande come: “Chi sei?”; “Da dove vieni?”; “Che valori e che storia porti con te?” Queste stesse domande sono però, al contempo, quelle che ogni richiedente asilo pone oggi all’Europa: “Chi sei?”; “Da dove vieni?”; “Di che valori e di che storia sei portatrice?”. Il diritto d’asilo affiora dalla storia millenaria di un istituto giuridico e religioso che accompagna l’evoluzione delle civiltà occidentali da quando se ne rinviene traccia. Una storia che viene qui indagata ricostruendo il filo conduttore delineato da alcune parole-chiave, le parole dell’asilo, appunto: ospitalità, pro…

Perpetuating Anti-Muslim Discrimination through the Interpretation of Religious Equality in the European Court of Human Rights

2018

AbstractFaced with widespread prejudice and discrimination, European Muslims are increasingly resorting to the European Court of Human Rights as a last-ditch strategy to transform state policies toward minority faiths. While the Court has a mandate to protect religious freedom and equality, the conservative and sometimes biased way in which it has interpreted these concepts has enabled the persistence of stark asymmetries in the legal and social statuses of different religions. Using an analysis of relevant cases, this article seeks to highlight the judicial processes that currently sustain Muslim subordination and pinpoint specific reforms that could reverse the trend.

Secular and sacred? The Scandinavian case of religion in human rights, law and public sphere

2014

Secular and Sacred? The Scandinavian Case of Religion in Human Rights, Law and Public Sphere (van den Breemer et al. 2014) is an anthology concerned with the shape and development of secularism in ...

The turbulence of images: On imagery, media and ethnographic discourse

1997

As the anthropological theory of politeness has put it, people have universally two kinds of social want. They wish to be close to others, liked and accepted, but they also want some distance, freedom from imposition and respect of mutual difference. These wants, which one may also call basic human rights, are however often violated, and images play an important role in this. Images are ultimately generated in the human mind and may find verbal as well as written and pictorial representation. Tyler [1978] has proposed a typology of mental images based on criteria of conscious control, completeness, abstraction, media and autonomy. These criteria also prove useful when probing into prototypi…