The Heterogeneous Effects of Natural Disasters on Human Rights

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerg Gutmann ◽  
Stefan Voigt
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Heterogeneous Effects

scholarly journals Yoga and victims

Temida ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Crime Victims ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Victim Support ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Victims Of Crime

In this paper the findings of literature review and explorative empirical research of yoga application in the work with victims of various forms of sufferings is presented. The largest notion of victim is accepted, which encompasses victims of crime, victims of human rights violations (including convicted persons), as well as victims of war, natural disasters and other sufferings. After determination of the notion of victim and yoga, the review and analyses of research findings and direct experiences with the application of yoga in victim support and victimisation prevention worldwide and in Serbia, is done. The author?s research findings as well as personal experiences with the application of yoga in the work with prisoners in prison for women in Pozarevac (Serbia), within the workshops that Victimology Society of Serbia implemented during 2012/2013, are presented as well. In the conclusions, contribution of yoga to holistic approach to victim support as well as important role that yoga may have in prevention of victimisation and criminalisation, is stressed. The importance of yoga for support of prisoners as the part of preparation for re-entry and with the aim to prevent recidivism, as well as to enable their more successful reintegration into the society, is particularly emphasised. The paper is based on the research implemented by the author for the purpose of writing the final essey at the course for yoga instructors on International yoga academy, Yoga Allience of Serbia.

Introduction – The German Law Journal's Human Rights Symposium (2012)

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiffany Wong
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
German Law ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Political Protests

My motivation in putting together this Human Rights Symposium for the German Law Journal (GLJ) is based on a number of events in the news this year: recent outbreaks of political protests in Libya and Egypt, on-going wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and natural disasters in Haiti and Japan, that have re-opened questions about human rights in the 21st century on a global scale.

Risk Analysis

1985 ◽  
Vol 1 (S1) ◽  
pp. 316-318
Author(s):  
Jiri Nehnevajsa ◽  
Ralph B. Swisher
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Human History ◽  
Life Itself

Major risks to human health and life are, indeed, as old as life itself. Whether we think of epidemics, hunger and malnutrition, famines, wars, violations of human rights, crime, natural disasters and swarms of other dangers, we cannot but be struck by their pantemporality and ubiquitousness. Acute or chronic, periodic or sporadic, frequent or infrequent, these and other hazards are endemic to the very condition of human existence —unwanted but nonetheless real consequences of being alive and of being social.It is indeed quite plausible to view some of the central strands and trajectories of human history as efforts to cope with the hazardous conditions of existence: to prevent risks from actualizing, or to mitigate the consequences of hazards which do actualize—those which we have not yet as developed the capability to prevent, and those which we cannot hope to prevent.

scholarly journals Social and Legal Barriers to Improving Human Rights of Climate Change Displaced People in Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-117
Author(s):  
Abdul Awal Khan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Displaced People ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Legal Barriers

It is estimated that between 2008 and 2014, 4.7 million people were displaced due to natural disasters in Bangladesh and that by 2050, one in every seven people in Bangladesh will be displaced by climate change. The subject matter of this paper is based on a theoretical analysis of various existing social and legal barriers relating to climate displacement in Bangladesh. This article critically analyses the social and legal barriers to helping Climate Change Displaced People (cdp) by drawing on existing legal literature such as the Bangladeshi constitution and qualitative data from Bangladesh’s experience with cdp. Ultimately, this article corroborates the lack of a coherent human rights framework for cdp in Bangladesh and suggests international cooperation as a first step towards a functioning regime.

Dealing with Disasters in an Age of Globalized Sentiment: Testing the Boundaries of the Cosmopolitan Ideal?

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 283-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darren O’Byrne
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Global Civil Society ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Global Response ◽  
The World ◽  
Per Se

AbstractNatural disasters, such as the Japanese earthquake and tsunami of March 2011, have not only tested the fragility of the world capitalist system, but have asked questions of the ‘cosmopolitan ideal’ that underpins the discourse on global civil society prevalent in much literature on globalization. In this article I consider why the global response to such tragedies is markedly different to the more muted response to more overtly political tragedies, such as atrocities committed by states, and suggests that what it demonstrates is not a full cosmopolitanismper se, but a ‘selective cosmopolitanism’ grounded in a ‘de-politicization of feeling’. As a result, the political context of these natural disasters is often ignored and this calls for a repositioning of such disasters within a human rights framework and for an analysis of them informed by a critical globalization studies.

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