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Homeschooling, freedom of conscience, and the school as republican sanctuary: an analysis of arguments representing polar conceptions of the secular …
2016
This paper examines how stances and understandings pertaining to whether home education is civically legitimate within liberal democratic contexts can depend on how one conceives normative roles of the secular state and the religious neutrality that is commonly associated with it. For the purposes of this paper, home education is understood as a manifestation of an educational philosophy ideologically based on a given conception of the good. Two polar conceptions of secularism, republican and liberal-pluralist, are explored. Republican secularists declare that religious expressions do not belong in the public sphere and justify this exclusion by promoting religious neutrality as an end in i…
Tackling racism seriously: Human rights and the underpinnings of ethnic recognition
2017
Ante el persistente reto del racismo, los estados de Europa occidental están buscando maneras de mejorar las actitudes de su población hacia los inmigrantes no blancos procedentes de los países en desarrollo, así como hacia sus descendientes. Sin embargo, dos importantes obstáculos dificultan la puesta en marcha de ambiciosas reformas antirracistas. Por un lado, la enorme brecha entre el número de votantes nativos y de origen extranjero, combinada con la relativa inmunidad de los primeros a la discriminación étnica, hace electoralmente difícil mantener el tema en la agenda política, especialmente con la competencia de partidos de extrema derecha y retórica xenófoba. Por otra parte, los part…
Cultural Heritage and Development: a look at the 2030 Agenda and the role of heritage.
2020
En la Agenda 2030 difícilmente vamos a ubicar referencias a la cultura, y aún menos al patrimonio cultural. En su redacción, los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) dejan poco margen a la cultura y al patrimonio como medio humano para alcanzar esos objetivos. Este artículo analiza la presencia y ausencia del patrimonio en los ODS aprobados en 2015 y nos presenta cómo muchas de sus metas se lograrían más eficazmente si se tiene en consideración esta dimensión intrínsecamente humana de participar, generar y abastecerse de cultura, además de ver cómo, si nos centramos en el patrimonio desde un enfoque en derechos, identificaremos caminos que puedan más fácilmente favorecer la consecución …
“To Own, or not to Own?” A multilevel analysis of intellectual property right policies' on academic entrepreneurship
2017
The political environment around universities has led them to create an infrastructure to manage academic inventions. While some consider that the advantages of a university entrepreneurial structure outweigh any potential negative effects, others question their detrimental effect on academic scientists’ entrepreneurial behavior. However, this debate remains unresolved as none of these two views have been fully empirically supported. Using multilevel models for a population of 2230 professors in 27 universities in Canada (82 individuals per unit on average), we test the effect of three features of institutional intellectual property right policy characteristics, namely, property rights (own…
Gender training for the judiciary in Argentina
2014
AbstractIn this paper I describe the two major Argentine experiences of gender training for the judiciary against the background of two relevant trends, women's entry in considerable numbers into the judiciary and the process of expansion of women's rights initiated after the restoration of democracy. The gap between the passing of progressive legislation and its lack of enforcement speaks of a tradition of women's subordination that is much engrained in our society and in its legal system. In spite of the existence of progressive egalitarian legislation stereotyped thinking prevails to prevent progressive legal practices. This constitutes a strong argument for gender training of the judici…
Celebrating Multiculturalism: European Multicultural Media Initiatives as Anti-Racist Practices
2017
Looking back on 20 years of European media policy, which reflects issues of ethnic minorities and immigrants there are significant developments in both policy and implementation. The recent European initiatives to increase cultural diversity in the media at a high institutional level stress that ethnic minorities and new immigrants should get access to both the screen and the newsroom. The increased policies and activity in this domain are a result of the perceived threat of the non-integration of the minority population in Europe. Signs of “lack of social cohesion” are interpreted from key events that have been heavily aired in the media: disturbances in French suburbs, the Danish cartoon …
Franco Salvo maestro di democrazia nella Sicilia del secondo dopoguerra
2018
Franco Salvo (1916-1983), professore di Storia e Filosofia presso il liceo classico Umberto I di Palermo fin dall’immediato dopoguerra, fu un «maestro di laicità» impegnato a formare i giovani ai valori della democrazia. Studioso appassionato di filosofia morale e storico, visse l’insegnamento come una missione laica orientata a formare le nuove generazioni alla libertà, alla responsabilità e ai principi fondanti della Costituzione. Durante le sue lezioni dava infatti ampio spazio all’educazione civica che insegnava entro una prospettiva storica, che considerava la più adeguata ad affrontare il tema dei diritti dell’uomo. Il suo metodo educativo era orientato a sviluppare una mentalità crit…
Mobility and Unspoken Citizens’ Rights in EU-Documents
2015
The formulation of Union citizenship has concentrated on rights since the 1970s. In the Maastricht and subsequent EU treaties, Union citizenship is defined through rights. Against this background, discussion on rights in the EU documents on citizenship analysed in this article is surprisingly scarce. The research material consists of 15 documents produced by EU institutions in 2003–2007 as part of three programmes on citizenship. In the documents, the discussion on rights focuses on mobility instead of other aspects of rights. Electoral rights and fundamental rights are discussed a little, but in general, the minuscule discussion on rights is dominated by discussions on freedom of mobility,…
M.N. e altri c. Belgio: qualche osservazione dissenziente
2021
In this commentary to the M.N. v. Belgium case, the authors criticize the three fundamental arguments on which the decision of the European Court of Human Rights is founded: the approach based on ‘originalism’, the approach based on the Courts’ precedents, and the approach based on consequentialism. As far as consequentialism is concerned, the authors approve the use of non strictly legal arguments in the Court’s reasoning, convinced as they are that human rights courts, more than any other judge, are not la bouche de la loi, but hold political power. We criticize the Court's choice to give space to only one of the (possible) political consequences of its decision, completely disregarding a…
Introduction. An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Environmental Problem in the Perspective of Human Rights
2021
The book examines the different legal, economic and ethical aspects of the relationship between the environment and human rights