Download or read book Procesos de verdad justicia y reparaci n a las v ctimas de desaparici n forzada en el Sahara Occidental written by María López Belloso and published by Universidad Pública de Navarra/Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La tesis de la investigadora, defendida en 2017 en la Universidad de Deusto y dirigida por los profesores Felipe Gómez Isa y Carlos Martín Beristain, analiza el que califica de “conflicto olvidado” del Sahara Occidental desde la perspectiva de los derechos humanos abordando, en particular, el delito de desaparición forzada. Para ello, la autora, que formó parte del equipo de trabajo de la investigación que desembocó en “El Oasis de la Memoria”, analiza en detalle 95 casos de desaparición forzada, 86 de ellos recogidos en dicha publicación y los nueve restantes, en “Meheris: la esperanza posible”. La investigadora indica que es necesaria “una voluntad política real por transformar la realidad y romper con el pasado de violaciones de derechos humanos” y denuncia que “no se haya respetado el derecho de las víctimas a la verdad”. Los resultados del trabajo, según apunta López, se espera que sirvan para que las personas afectadas puedan defender sus derechos ante las instancias internacionales y la Audiencia Nacional española.

Download or read book Desapariciones forzadas y justicia transicional written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La desaparición forzada empieza generalmente con una detención o un secuestro o cualquier otra forma de privación de libertad, realizada por agentes del Estado o por personas con su autorización o aquiescencia, seguida de la negativa o el ocultamiento de la suerte o el paradero de la persona desaparecida. La incertidumbre sobre el paradero de la persona desaparecida y el miedo a que ésta haya sido sometida a torturas, tratos crueles e inhumanos, o incluso asesinada, causa mucha angustia y sufrimiento a los familiares, lo cual constituye un trato inhumano o degradante, y así lo han establecido las diferentes instancias internacionales de protección de derechos humanos. Dada la relevancia jurídica y práctica del tema, se consideró sobradamente justificado el llevar a cabo una investigación con el objeto de analizar el fenómeno global de las desapariciones forzadas y la respuesta del derecho internacional mediante la adopción de tratados y mecanismos de protección de todas las personas contra las desapariciones forzadas. A fin de delimitar este objeto, se estimó pertinente estudiar el tratamiento de las desapariciones forzadas en los procesos de justicia transicional, es decir, en los Estados que han vivido un conflicto armado o un régimen autoritario y que están en transición hacia un nuevo régimen basado en el Estado de derecho y el respeto de los derechos humanos. Para ello, se fijaron como principales objetivos específicos del proyecto de investigación los siguientes: -El estudio del fenómeno de las desapariciones forzadas y la respuesta del derecho internacional desde el punto de vista del derecho internacional de los derechos humanos, el derecho internacional humanitario y el derecho internacional penal; -El análisis del concepto y los principales elementos de desaparición forzada a partir de la comparación de las definiciones de los diferentes instrumentos jurídicos internacionales, con especial referencia a la desaparición forzada de menores; -El estudio de la desaparición forzada como un delito complejo que conlleva la violación múltiple de derechos humanos fundamentales; -La determinación del alcance y contenido del derecho a saber de los familiares de las personas desaparecidas así como de la dimensión colectiva del derecho a la verdad; -El análisis del derecho a la justicia y las salvaguardias contra la impunidad de las víctimas de desapariciones forzadas; y -El análisis del derecho de las víctimas de desapariciones forzadas a la reparación y sus distintas formas junto con las garantías de no repetición. El análisis se plantea desde una perspectiva del Derecho Internacional Público, teniendo en cuenta en particular el derecho internacional de los derechos humanos, el derecho internacional humanitario y el derecho internacional penal. Para ello, se tendrán en cuenta los principios y normas jurídicas internacionales, así como los procedimientos propios de creación y aplicación del Derecho internacional a la hora de aproximarse al objeto de estudio. Para la realización de la investigación se ha utilizado el método propio de la ciencia jurídica, no obstante, atendiendo a algunas de las implicaciones del análisis y objeto de estudio, se ha tenido en cuenta también una aproximación social e histórica y axiológica de las cuestiones planteadas. En lo que respecta a la sistemática seguida para alcanzar el objeto predefinido, el trabajo de investigación se ha dividido en dos partes: una primera en la que se analiza el fenómeno global de las desapariciones forzadas y la respuesta del derecho internacional mediante la adopción de tratados y mecanismos de protección de todas las personas contra las desapariciones forzadas; y una segunda parte en la cual se estudia cómo a través de la justicia transicional pueden los familiares esclarecer la suerte o paradero de las personas desaparecidas, partiendo de la impunidad de la que suelen gozar los responsables de actos de desapariciones forzadas hasta llegar a la rendición de cuentas. En la Parte I, el capítulo I se inicia con una referencia a dos de los antecedentes más significativos de la práctica de las desapariciones forzadas, por un lado, el Decreto Noche y Niebla, desarrollado por los nazis durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial como un método de guerra de brutalidad inusual y, por el otro, el fenómeno de las desapariciones forzadas que asoló América Latina durante las décadas de los setenta y ochenta en el marco de conflictos armados internos o situaciones de violencia interna y que en gran parte fue el detonante de la reacción de la comunidad internacional que, entre otras cosas, decidió crear el Grupo de Trabajo sobre Desapariciones Forzadas o Involuntarias de las Naciones Unidas en 1980. El capítulo II versa sobre la definición de desaparición forzada, en el cual se analizan los diferentes elementos que la componen, a saber, la privación de libertad, la participación del estado y la cuestión de los actores no estatales, y la sustracción de la persona a la protección de la ley como intención o consecuencia de la desaparición forzosa. Esta primera parte termina con el capítulo III que analiza la desaparición forzada como una violación compleja y múltiple de derechos humanos, en concreto el derecho a la libertad y seguridad personal, el derecho a la integridad personal, el derecho a la vida y el derecho a la personalidad jurídica. La Parte II está estructurada en base al Conjunto de principios actualizado para la protección y la promoción de los derechos humanos mediante la lucha contra la impunidad adoptados por la Comisión de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas en 2005, en donde se establecen las obligaciones de los Estados frente a graves violaciones de derechos humanos. El Capítulo IV está dedicado al derecho a la verdad, cuyo origen se encuentra en el derecho internacional humanitario y que se reconoce por primera vez en el ámbito internacional de los derechos humanos en la Convención Internacional de 2006. A continuación, el Capítulo V analiza el derecho a la justicia y las salvaguardias contra la impunidad, haciendo énfasis en la obligación de los Estados de juzgar a los autores de las desapariciones forzadas en base al principio "Aut dedere aut iudicare". Finalmente, el capítulo VI abordará el derecho a la reparación y garantías de no repetición de las víctimas, haciendo especial énfasis en las distintas formas de reparación que requieren los familiares de las personas desaparecidas y que incluyen la restitución, la indemnización, la rehabilitación y la satisfacción.

Download or read book Conflict and Peace in Western Sahara written by János Besenyő and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-26 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of MINURSO (the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara), focused on its activities, composition, purpose, and operational future in Western Sahara, the world’s last colony. The book’s focus is broad, examining MINURSO from key historical, legal, military and political angles whilst assessing the future of UN peacekeeping missions in the Western Sahara. Supported by a diverse, international mix of perspectives and professions—including academics, lawyers, soldiers, and humanitarian aid workers—an in-depth view of MINURSO is provided, rooted in practical Western Saharan field experience. The authors reveal the complexities of the region and of the mission locally, but also analyze MINURSO through a global lens, focusing on relations with the United States, China, Russia, France, and African states. This approach emphasizes the importance of the region as a site of international struggle while remaining conscious of local contexts. A landmark contribution to peacekeeping studies, the book is vital reading for practitioners and academics focused on the Western Saharan conflict and the MENA region, but will also be of interest to those engaged in international relations, international law, and security studies.

Download or read book The Forbidden Religion written by Jose M. Herrou Aragon and published by José M. Herrou Aragón. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gnosis means knowledge. But we are not referring to just any knowledge. Gnosis is knowledge which produces a great transformation in those who receive it. Knowledge capable of nothing less than waking up man and helping him to escape from the prison in which he finds himself. That is why Gnosis has been so persecuted throughout the course of history, because it is knowledge considered dangerous for the religious and political authorities who govern mankind from the shadows. Every time this religion, absolutely different from the rest, appears before man, the other religions unite to try to destroy or hide it again. Primordial Gnosis is the original Gnosis, true Gnosis, eternal Gnosis, Gnostic knowledge in its pure form. Due to multiple persecutions, Primordial Gnosis has been fragmented, distorted and hidden.

Download or read book Criminal Law in Action written by Jan van Dijk and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1988-04-06 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of this work illustrates the two difficulties which the chosen theme poses, difficulties which arise from the confrontation between collective & individual interests. On the one hand, the criminal process is based on the protection of society; on the other hand, human rights implies respect for all individuals implicated in that process, be they victim, witness or accused. A third difficulty arises in relation to the new influence of European law. While the right to judge has long appeared to be the most obvious indication of national sovereignty, it is now subject to supranational control & a State can be censured by the European Court of Human Rights. Part One of this volume analyses the period of reform in various Eastern & Western European countries; Part Two explores the debate among jurists, historians, sociologists & philosophers on the subject of the criminal trial in a democratic society. Finally, Part Three reflects on the issue within the context of the European Community & the European Council & explores the question of a future model for the European criminal trial. Professor Mireille Delmas-Marty teaches at l'Universite de Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne & is a member of l'Institut Universitaire de France. She is the editor of The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights, International Protection versus National Restrictions (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1992.)

Download or read book Fatal Journeys Identification and Tracing of Dead and Missing Migrants written by International Organization for Migration and published by International Organization for Migration (IOM). This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in IOM's series on migrant deaths, Fatal Journeys has two main objectives. First, it provides an update of global trends in migrant fatalities since 2014. Data on the number and profile of dead and missing migrants are presented for different regions of the world, drawing upon the data collected through IOM's Missing Migrants Project. Second, the report examines the challenges facing families and authorities seeking to identify and trace missing migrants. The study compares practices in different parts of the world, and identifies a number of innovative measures that could potentially be replicated elsewhere.

Download or read book Scared to Death written by Anthony Horowitz and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chilling collection of ten nightmarish and fiendishly funny short stories is a perfect read for fearless children. From a train journey straight to hell, out of control robots with a murderous streak and even a television show where death is the penalty - these terrifying tales display the dazzling wit and wicked humour of master storyteller Anthony Horowitz, and are guaranteed to make your blood curdle and your spine tingle.

Download or read book The Culture of Speed written by John Tomlinson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John Tomlinson′s book is an invitation to an adventure. It contains a precious key to unlock the doors into the unmapped and unexplored cultural and ethical condition of ′immediacy′. Without this key concept from now on it will not be possible to make sense of the social existence of our times and its ambivalences." - Ulrich Beck, University of Munich "A most welcome, stimulating and challenging exploration of the cultural impact and significance of speed in advanced modern societies. It successfully interweaves theoretical discourse, historical and contemporary analyses and imaginative use of literary sources, all of which are mobilised in order to provide an original, intellectually rewarding and critical account of the changing significance of speed in our everyday experience." - David Frisby, London School of Economics and Political Science Is the pace of life accelerating? If so, what are the cultural, social, personal and economic consequences? This stimulating and accessible book examines how speed emerged as a cultural issue during industrial modernity. The rise of capitalist society and the shift to urban settings was rapid and tumultuous and was defined by the belief in ′progress′. The first obstacle faced by societies that were starting to ′speed up′ was how to regulate and control the process. The attempt to regulate the acceleration of life created a new set of problems, namely the way in which speed escapes regulation and rebels against controls. This pattern of acceleration and control subsequently defined debates about the cultural effects of acceleration. However, in the 21st century ′immediacy′, the combination of fast capitalism and the saturation of the everyday by media technologies, has emerged as the core feature of control. This coming of immediacy will inexorably change how we think about and experience media culture, consumption practices, and the core of our cultural and moral values. Incisive and richly illustrated, this eye-opening account of speed and culture provides an original guide to one of the central features of contemporary culture and everyday life.

Download or read book Drawn to Trouble written by Eric Hebborn and published by Mainstream Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described as the maker of the finest art fakes of the 20th century, Eric Hebborn's work has fooled the experts at Sotheby's and Christie's and now hangs in many of the most famous art collections in the world.

Download or read book When the Past Is Always Present written by Ronald A. Ruden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Past Is Always Present: Emotional Traumatization, Causes, and Cures introduces several new ideas about trauma and trauma treatment. The first of these is that another way to treat disorders arising from the mind/brain may be to use the senses. This idea, which is at the core of psychosensory therapy, forms what the author considers the "third pillar" of trauma treatment (the first and second pillars being psychotherapy and psychopharmacology). Psychosensory therapy postulates that sensory input—for example, touch—creates extrasensory activity that alters brain function and the way we respond to stimuli. The second idea presented in this book is that traumatization is encoded in the amygdala only under special circumstances. Thus, by understanding what makes an individual resistant to traumatization we can offer a way of preventing it. The third idea is that traumatization occurs because we cannot find a haven during the event. This is the cornerstone of havening, the particular form of psychosensory therapy described in the book. Using evolutionary biological principles and recently published neuroscientific studies, this book outlines in detail how havening touch de-links the emotional experience from a trauma, essentially making it just an ordinary memory. Once done, the event no longer causes distress.

Download or read book Material Cultures written by Daniel Miller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of material culture, while historically well established, has recently enjoyed something of a renaissance. Methods once dominated by Marxist- and commodity-oriented analyses and by the study of objects as symbols are giving way to a more ethnographic approach to artifacts. This orientation is the cornerstone of the essays presented in Material Cultures. A collection of case studies which move from the domestic sphere to the global arena, the volume includes examinations of the soundscape produced by home radios, catalog shopping, the role of paper in the workplace, and the relationship between the production and consumption of Coca-Cola in Trinidad. The diversity of the essays is mediated by their common commitment to ethnography with a material focus. Rather than examine objects as mirages of media or language, Material Cultures emphasizes how the study of objects not only contributes to an understanding of artifacts but is also an effective means for studying social values and contradictions.

Download or read book Vows of Silence written by Jason Berry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-03-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going deep behind the headlines about scandals in the Catholic Church, Jason Berry and Gerald Renner follow the staggering trail of evasions and deceit that leads directly to the Vatican and taints the legacy of Pope John Paul II. Based on more than six years of investigative reporting and hundreds of interviews, Vows of Silence is a riveting account of Vatican cover-ups. Both a profound criticism and a wake-up call to reform by two Catholic writers, this book reveals an agenda of top-down control under John Paul II and a hierarchy so obsessed with secrecy as to spawn disinformation. Vows of Silence cuts between the life story of Father Tom Doyle, who sacrificed a diplomatic career with the Vatican to seek justice for sex-abuse victims, and Father Marcial Maciel, an accused pedophile and founder of the militaristic religious order, the Legion of Christ. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Father Doyle and with ex-Legionaries who filed a canonical suit against Maciel, as well as interviews with Vatican insiders and an array of sources in Mexico, Ireland, Canada, and Australia, Berry and Renner provide a penetrating account of a hierarchy directly in conflict with its followers. With keen insight and scrupulous reporting, Vows of Silence is a powerful narrative that chronicles the church's struggle between orthodoxy and reform—going straight to the heart of one of the world's largest power structures. It is not a book about sexual abuse; it is a book about abuse of power throughout the Vatican.

Download or read book The Structure of International Conflict written by C. R. Mitchell and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-03-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What constitutes a `conflict' between human groups, organisations or countries? How do people perceive and behave in conflicts? How do conflicts come to an end and what part can outsiders play in settling them or making them less damaging? The present work seeks to answer such questions by examining common structures and processes found in human conflicts in many settings, and by demonstrating how such common features reveal themselves in conflicts as ostensibly different as international war and interpersonal disagreements in organisations. The Structure of International Conflict seeks to be a some permanent use to all students interested in penetrating beneath the surface details and ostensible dissimilarities of specific wars, disputes and quarrels to the basic structure that underlies all human conflicts, from the most peaceful to the most violent, lethal and destructive.

Download or read book Sergei Eisenstein written by Ronald Bergan and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now back in print, this acclaimed biography reassesses a titan of early cinema based on new material released after the fall of the Soviet Union. Sergei Eisenstein: A Life in Conflict tells the dramatic story of one of world cinema’s towering geniuses and principal theorists. Ronald Bergan details Eisenstein’s life from his precocious childhood to his explosion onto the avant-garde scene in revolutionary Russia, through his groundbreaking film career, his relationships with authors and artists such as James Joyce and Walt Disney, and his untimely death at age fifty. Eisenstein’s landmark films, including The Battleship Potemkin and Ivan the Terrible, are still watched, admired, and taught throughout the world. Drawing upon material recently released from the Soviet archives after the breakup of the USSR and from Eisenstein’s personal letters, diaries, and sketches, Bergan shines a new light on the influence of Eisenstein’s early life on his work, his homosexuality, and his keen interest in the West. This book is the definitive biography of an influential director who saw film as the synthesis of all the arts and whose work displayed a passionate and profound grasp of art, science, philosophy, and religion.

Download or read book Competitiveness and Tourism written by Geoffrey Ian Crouch and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Competitiveness and Tourism brings together the key scholarly articles which discuss the challenges of managing, maintaining and enhancing competitive tourism destinations. This authoritative collection of articles covers service sector competition; conceptual models of tourism competitiveness; the measurement and modeling of tourism competitiveness; organizing, planning and management issues; tourism marketing; price competitiveness and demand elasticity; sustainability issues and case studies of tourism competitiveness from around the world. Along with an original introduction by the editors, this two-volume set is designed for scholars, students and practitioners interested in a deeper understanding of the nature of tourism competition and implications for tourism and destination management.

Download or read book When Men Revolt and Why written by James Chowning Davies and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environment within which humans interact has changed dramatically since the Industrial Revolution. However, their expectations stem from the same hopes and dreams people have had from the beginning of humankind. When Men Revolt and Why encourages readers to look closer and more deeply into the relationships between humans and the institutions that have originated to help them realize their full potential. The contributors not only examine people, but also the need to change institutions that have outworn their usefulness. When institutions inhibit rather than facilitate everyone's desire to live a full life, the result is likely to be violence. This book offers the ideas of many people who have tried to dig deeper into basic causes of violence. Included in this volume are selections by Aristotle, Tocqueville./Marx and Engels, and Brinton. The ideas they espoused still hold vitality. In his new introduction, James Davies talks about the circumstances under which this book was originally published. In Vietnam, a people were fighting for their autonomy. In the United States, many Americans were protesting against American involvement in the Vietnam War. Blacks were marching for their civil rights. Women were fighting for equality. Time has tempered these conflicts. Davies maintains that we remain ignorant of the elemental forces that impel people and nations to resort to violence. We are usually surprised by their anger and shocked by their violence. Davies asserts that we need to learn more about how humans respond to change so as to prepare ourselves for such responses to change. When Men Revolt and Why is as timely as ever as we deal with uncertainty in various areas of the world— the former Yugoslavia, the Middle East, and Ireland, among others. It is especially pertinent for political scientists, historians, and sociologists.

Download or read book Searching for Peace written by Johan Galtung and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to conflict resolution that draws on the Transcend approach to peace-making, now adopted by the United Nations.