scholarly journals The 1969 African Refugee Convention: Innovations, Misconceptions, and Omissions

2013 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Sharpe
Keyword(s):  
Economic Rights ◽  
Refugee Convention ◽  
Common Misconception ◽  
The Common ◽  
African Refugee ◽  
Critical Overview

This paper provides a critical overview of the 1969 African refugee convention, beginning with a survey of its legal innovations. It then addresses the most misunderstood of them—the unique refugee definition—in depth, with an emphasis on dispelling the common misconception that it is particularly expansive. Finally, it investigates the 1969 Convention’s silence regarding refugees’ civil and political, and socio-economic rights, and how it works as the “regional complement” to the 1951 global refugee convention in that regard.

“The Problem of Witchcraft”: Violence and the Supernatural in Global African Refugee Mobilities

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 660-682
Author(s):  
Katherine Luongo
Keyword(s):  
Social Group ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Refugee Status ◽  
Refugee Convention ◽  
Refugee Protection ◽  
African Refugee ◽  
Push Factor

Abstract:Over the last two decades, witchcraft violence has emerged steadily as a “push factor” for African asylum seekers who argue that being accused of witchcraft or targeted with witchcraft renders them members of a “particular social group” (PSG), subject to persecution and eligible for refugee protection under the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. This article examines the refugee status determination (RSD) processes through which immigration regimes in Canada and Australia have adjudicated allegations about witchcraft violence made by asylum seekers from across Anglophone Africa. It critiques the utility of expanding PSG along cultural lines without a commensurate expansion in adjudicators’ knowledge.

Somersett's Case, The Constitution and Common Law Rights: A Re-Appraisal

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 335-352
Author(s):  
Satvinder S. Juss
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Individual Rights ◽  
Individual Liberty ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
Popular View ◽  
The Common ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Private Right

This article sets out to show that the popular view of the slave case of James Somersett as epitomising the common law's tenderness for individual liberty is mistaken, and through discussion of that case, this article seeks to shed light on the efficacy of the common law as a vehicle for the protection of pluralist individual rights in the modern world. The integrity of the common law is questioned when it gives primacy to economic rights. In this context, there is a discussion of the infamous Yorke and Talbot Opinion. The use of human rights instruments to redress the shortcomings of private-right based law is advocated.

The Evolution ofAntitrust Law in USA

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 154
Author(s):  
Jonida Lamaj
Keyword(s):  
Competition Law ◽  
Antitrust Law ◽  
Department Of Justice ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
Law System ◽  
Sherman Act ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Main Components

This Article analyzes the evolution of Antitrust Law (known as Competition Law in Europe) in United States of America. It is important to study the history of Antitrust Law in USA, because the roots and the origin of this important law and regulation that guarantee the economic rights and freedoms of persons and companies has started in USA, inherited from the Common Law system. This Article is composed by 4 main components, such as: Introduction of Antitrust Law, History of Sherman Act, History of Clayton Act and The enforcement of Competition Law in USA. A greater attention is given to the Sherman Antitrust Act. To better understand the Sherman Act, it is described the history path of the legalization of the act, reason why this act was implemented in USA, which were some challenges of the system at that time, how it is enforced, etc.? The same analogy is done with the Clayton Act and other amendments of Antitrust Acts. At the end of the paper it is introduced the main tools that helps to function the Antitrust law in USA, by analyzing the role of Department of Justice Antitrust Division, the Federal Trade Commission and Exemptions and Immunities.

scholarly journals "All is not lost" - Rethinking the nature of memory and the self in dementia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cherie Strikwerda-Brown ◽  
Matthew D. Grilli ◽  
Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna ◽  
Muireann Irish
Keyword(s):  
Neurodegenerative Disorders ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The Self ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Everyday Functioning ◽  
Common Assumption ◽  
Loss Of Self ◽  
Common Misconception ◽  
The Common ◽  
New Framework

Memory and the self have long been considered intertwined, leading to the common assumption that without memory, there can be no self. This line of reasoning has led to the common misconception that a loss of memory in dementia necessarily results in a diminished sense of self. Here, we challenge this assumption by considering discrete facets of the self, and their relative profiles of loss and sparing, across three neurodegenerative disorders: Alzheimer’s disease, semantic dementia, and frontotemporal dementia. By exploring canonical expressions of the self across past, present, and future contexts in dementia, relative to healthy ageing, we reconcile previous accounts of loss of self in dementia, and propose a new framework for understanding and managing everyday functioning and behaviour. Notably, our approach highlights the multifaceted and dynamic nature in which the self is likely to change in healthy and pathological ageing, with important ramifications for development of person-centred care. Collectively, we aim to promote a cohesive sense of self in dementia across past, present, and future contexts, by demonstrating how, ultimately, ‘All is not lost’.

scholarly journals Special Features of the Spiritual Leadership of St. Theofan the Recluse

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
Михаил Степанович Иванов
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Leadership ◽  
Fundamental Principle ◽  
Common Misconception ◽  
The World ◽  
Spiritual Tradition ◽  
The Common ◽  
Historical Basis ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Church ◽  
True Relationship

Статья посвящена специфике аскетической практики известного русского подвижника благочестия епископа Феофана (Говорова). В начале статьи даётся историческое обоснование диалектическому противостоянию между миром и монастырём, которое разрешается в одну из благодатных форм христианской жизни. Далее проводится различение между понятиями «мир Божий», как сотворённая Богом Вселенная, и «мир греха», как господство зла, вторгшегося в окружающий мир по вине человека. Это различение помогает снять распространённое заблуждение относительно монашеского отречения от мира и выявить подлинные отношения, которые рождает человек, ставший на монашеский путь духовного возрождения. Развивая эти отношения, монах входит в целостное, органическое, духовное и благодатное единство с миром Божиим, что позволяет ему установить основанное на любви ко всему божественному творению подлинное отношение ко всем обитателям тварного мира. На этом основополагающем принципе монашеской жизни, как пишет епископ Феофан, Затворник Вышенский, как раз и нужно строить архипастырское руководство всеми членами Церкви - не только монашеским братством, но и мирскими людьми, тем самым продолжая духовную традицию русского старчества. The article is devoted to the specifics of the ascetic practice of the famous Russian devotee of piety, Bishop Theofan (Govorov). At the beginning of the article, a historical basis is given for the dialectical confrontation between the world and the monastery, which is resolved into one of the blessed forms of Christian life. Further, a distinction is made between the concepts of «the world of God», as the universe created by God, and the «world of sin», as the rule of evil that invaded the surrounding world through the fault of man. This distinction helps to remove the common misconception about monastic renunciation of the world and to reveal the true relationship that a person gives birth to when he embarks on the monastic path of spiritual rebirth. Developing these relationships, the monk enters into an integral, organic, spiritual and grace-filled unity with the world of God, which allows him to establish a genuine relationship based on love for the entire divine creation with all the inhabitants of the created world. On this fundamental principle of monastic life, as Bishop Theofan, the Recluse of Vyshensky writes, it is precisely necessary to build the archpastoral leadership of all members of the Church - not only the monastic brotherhood, but also the secular people, thereby continuing the spiritual tradition of the Russian eldership.

Reading Race in Slavic Studies Scholarship through a Digital Lens

Slavic Review ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-244
Author(s):  
Hilah Kohen ◽  
Katherine M. H. Reischl ◽  
Andrew Janco ◽  
Susan Grunewald ◽  
Antonina Puchkovskaia
Keyword(s):  
Race And Racism ◽  
Common Misconception ◽  
Positive Guidance ◽  
Historical Objects ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
The Common ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Cultural Constructions ◽  
Slavic Studies

This article asks, on a systemic scale, how published articles in “Slavic Studies” do and do not reflect critically on race and other cultural constructions of identity. Digital Humanities methods provide a digital bird's-eye view of over 100,000 scholarly texts, primarily in Russian and English, through three computational approaches: frequency analysis, topic modeling, and perspectival modeling. The authors demonstrate that there is an absence of critical tools for conducting research about race in our field, despite a prevalence of racialized subject matter. These results offer a data-based refutation of the common misconception that race is outside the scholarly concerns of our field. Rather, the data affirms student accounts of the field's inadequacies in grappling with race and racism, both in historical objects of study and in the world that scholars navigate. Digital methods also locate scholarship inside and outside Slavic Studies that offers positive guidance for future work.

The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-47
Author(s):  
Christian Tomuschat
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Intergovernmental Relations ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
Concrete Action ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Common

Abstract The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development aims to change the world’s system of governance by introducing more justice in the distribution of material goods and services and protecting at the same time humankind’s natural foundations of existence from degradation. Although not binding in legal terms, the Agenda traces the lines for political action aiming to make social and economic rights a reality for everyone. International law descends from its high horse of intergovernmental relations to address the vital needs and interests of the common man or woman like poverty and hunger. In this sense, one can speak of a project aiming to establish a true international community whose guiding principle is equality within and among nations. Through its mechanism of monitoring and review the Agenda attempts to involve all societal forces for the objective of development. The great challenge is to translate the Agenda into concrete action, leaving the province of diplomatic statements.

Pulmonary manifestations in adult patients with a defect in humoral immunity

2016 ◽  
Vol 88 (8) ◽  
pp. 127-134
Author(s):  
T V Latysheva ◽  
E A Latysheva ◽  
I A Martynova ◽  
G E Aminova
Keyword(s):  
Humoral Immunity ◽  
Iga Deficiency ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Congenital Diseases ◽  
Selective Iga Deficiency ◽  
Adult Age ◽  
Common Misconception ◽  
Pulmonary Manifestations ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Variable

Primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs) are a group of congenital diseases of the immune system, which numbers more than 230 nosological entities associated with lost, decreased, or wrong function of its one or several components. Due to the common misconception that these are extremely rare diseases that occur only in children and lead to their death at an early age, PIDs are frequently ruled out by physicians of related specialties from the range of differential diagnosis. The most common forms of PIDs, such as humoral immunity defects, common variable immune deficiency, X-linked agammaglobulinemia, selective IgA deficiency, etc., are milder than other forms of PID, enabling patients to attain their adult age, and may even manifest in adulthood. Bronchopulmonary involvements are the most common manifestations of the disease in patients with a defect in humoral immunity. Thus, a therapist and a pulmonologist are mostly the first doctors who begin to treat these patients and play a key role in their fate, since only timely diagnosis and initiation of adequate therapy can preserve not only the patient’s life, but also its quality, avoiding irreversible complications. Chest computed tomography changes play a large role in diagnosis. These are not specific for PID; however, there are a number of characteristic signs that permit this diagnosis to be presumed.

Palestine in Egyptian Colloquial Poetry

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 61-77
Author(s):  
Noha Radwan
Keyword(s):  
Significant Part ◽  
Historical Survey ◽  
Common Misconception ◽  
The Common ◽  
Large Corpus

Shi'r al-'ammiyya is a poetry movement whose emergence in Egypt in the early 1950s coincided with the heyday of Nasser's revolution, when the Palestine question was a national concern. With numerous practitioners today, the movement has yielded a large corpus of colloquial poetry that has become a significant part of Egypt's cultural landscape.This article presents a historical survey of shi'r al-'ammiyya's best known poets—Fu'ad Haddad, Salah Jahin, and 'Abd al-Rahman al-Abnudi—and their poems on Palestine. Among the essay's aims is to dispel the common misconception that the use of colloquial Egyptian ('ammiyya) denotes parochial rather than pan-Arab concerns, with the standard (fusha) Arabic seen as a signifier of pan-Arab identity.

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