El reto de tomarnos en serio el estado social de derecho (Tema Central)

Este artículo describe los elementos centrales que conforman dos formas de Estado: el Estado liberal de Derecho y el Estado Social de Derecho. Respecto de este último desarrolla con mayor profundidad dos de sus elementos constitutivos: el valor de la igualdad sustancial o real y el reconocimiento y garantía de los derechos económicos, sociales y culturales. Plantea algunas reflexiones en la coyuntura actual del Ecuador respecto de la constituyente y las ventajas y desventajas del denominado constitucionalismo aspiracional. Finalmente propone la incorporación constitucional de tres aspectos que pueden apuntalar a nivel normativo la igualdad real y los DESC con el fin de consolidar el Estado Social de Derecho y los derechos humanos como razón de ser del Estado y factor de legitimación del mismo. No deja de advertir que la Constitución es una herramienta que puede o no servir para transformaciones sociales y que el reto fundamental de encarnarla en la cotidianidad pasa por un esfuerzo sostenido y complejo.

Las garantías de los derechos humanos en tiempos de constitucionalismo. Propuesta de reformas para la constituyente (Tema Central)

Hay dos reformas constitucionales que son claves y que, solo si ellas se logran, bastarían para justificar toda la inversión política y económica en la Asamblea Constituyente: el fortalecimiento de un órgano supremo de control constitucional1 y la expansión de las garantías constitucionales a los derechos humanos, reconocidos por la Constitución y otros instrumentos jurídicos. En este ensayo abordaremos el tema de las garantías y lo trataremos desde dos perspectivas: la una teórica y la otra concreta. En la parte teórica se pretende contextualizar las reformas a las garantías en la teoría del Estado Social de Derecho. La garantía, en este modelo de Estado, la encontramos en las normas jurídicas, en la estructura del Estado y, en particular, en el rol de los jueces que ejercen control constitucional. En la parte concreta, abordaremos una propuesta de diseño constitucional sobre la regulación de las garantías y breves explicaciones que justifican su regulación. Esperamos persuadir la necesidad de adaptar las garantías judiciales constitucionales para poder solucionar las graves y cotidianas violaciones a los derechos humanos.

Vox Populi, Vox Dei? A closer look at the ‘public opinion’ argument for retention

The Japanese government’s justification for retaining the death penalty is that abolition would erode the legitimacy of and public trust in the criminal justice system, leading to victims’ families taking justice into their own hands. This justification is based on the results of a regularly administered public opinion survey, which is said to show strong public support for the death penalty. However, a close analysis of the results of the 2014 survey fails to validate this claim. Just over a third of respondents were committed to retaining the death penalty at all costs, while the rest accepted the possibility of future abolition, with some of them seeing this as contingent on the introduction of life imprisonment without parole as an alternative sentence. These findings hardly describe a society that expects the strict application of the death penalty and whose trust in justice depends on the government’s commitment to retaining it. My reading of the 2014 survey is that the Japanese public is ready to embrace abolition. Japan, after all, is a signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which calls on states not to delay or prevent abolition, so this should be welcome news for the Japanese government!

O direito à saúde e a política nacional de atenção oncológica: uma análise a partir da crescente judicialização dos medicamentos antineoplásicos

The 1988 Federal Constitution of Brazil by presenting the catalog of fundamental rights and guarantees (Title II) provides expressly that such rights reach the social, economic and cultural rights (art. 6 of CF/88) as a means not only to ratify the civil and political rights, but also to make them effective and practical in the life of the Brazilian people, particularly in the prediction of immediate application of those rights and guarantees. In this sense, health goes through condition of universal right and duty of the State, which should be guaranteed by social and economic policies aimed at reducing the risk of disease and other hazards, in addition to ensuring universal and equal access to actions and services for its promotion, protection and recovery (Article 196 by CF/88). Achieving the purposes aimed by the constituent to the area of health is the great challenge that requires the Health System and its managers. To this end, several policies have been structured in an attempt to establish actions and services for the promotion, protection and rehabilitation of diseases and disorders to health. In the mid-90s, in order to meet the guidelines and principles established by the SUS, it was established the Política Nacional de Atenção Oncológica PNAO, in an attempt to sketch out a public policy that sought to achieve maximum efficiency and to be able to give answers integral to effective care for patients with cancer, with emphasis on prevention, early detection, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care. However, many lawsuits have been proposed with applications for anticancer drugs. These actions have become very complex, both in the procedural aspects and in all material ones, especially due to the highcost drugs more requested these demands, as well as need to be buoyed by the scientific evidence of these drugs in relation to proposed treatments. The jurisprudence in this area, although the orientations as outlined by the Parliament of Supreme Court is still in the process of construction, this study is thus placed in the perspective of contributing to the effective and efficient adjudication in these actions, with focus on achieving the fundamental social rights. Given this scenario and using research explanatory literature and documents were examined 108 lawsuits pending in the Federal Court in Rio Grande do Norte, trying to identify the organs of the Judiciary behave in the face of lawsuits that seeking oncology drugs (or antineoplastic), seeking to reconcile the principles and constitutional laws and infra constitutional involving the theme in an attempt to contribute to a rationalization of this judicial practice. Finally, considering the Rational Use of health demands and the idea of belonging to the Brazilian people SUS, it is concluded that the judicial power requires ballast parameters of their decisions on evidence-based medicine, aligning these decisions housing constitutional principles that the right to health and the scientific conclusions of efficacy, effectiveness and efficiency in oncology drugs, when compared to the treatments offered by SUS

As normas multilaterais para o combate ao terrorismo: uma análise das políticas dos EUA no pós 11 de setembro e sua recepção nos espaços decisórios da ONU

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Jovens em tempos de direitos: percepções e ambiguidades

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A atuação do sistema interamericano de proteção dos Direitos Humanos na defesa dos direitos econômicos, sociais e culturais

A presente Tese de Doutorado tem por objetivo estudar a atuação dos órgãos do Sistema Interamericano de Direitos Humanos no que se refere à proteção e à promoção dos direitos econômicos, sociais e culturais. Para tanto, a pesquisa parte de considerações acerca do que seriam tais direitos, analisando e refutando teorias e concepções que tentaram recusá-los enquanto normas de Direitos Humanos, o que teria motivado a elaboração de dispositivos normativos vagos e a ausência de mecanismos de monitoramento de igual forma, como havia sido previsto para o rol do grupo de Direitos Humanos, denominado de direitos civis e políticos. A fim de demonstrar que os direitos econômicos, sociais e culturais fazem parte de um grupo de direitos plenamente justiciáveis, a tese também analisa elementos que comumente são conferido-lhes, como progressividade, proibição de retrocesso, aplicação do máximo de recursos disponíveis e núcleo mínimo de direitos, a partir do que é desenvolvido pelo Comitê de Direitos Econômicos, Sociais e Culturais da Organização das Nações Unidas, para, posteriormente, apresentar como enfrentam tais aspectos, os órgãos do Sistema Interamericano. Do estudo de normas internacionais e do sistema internacional de monitoramento, que foram especialmente construídos para os direitos econômicos, sociais e culturais, verificam-se diversos níveis de obrigações jurídicas, do que se propõe uma classificação para os diferentes mecanismos de acesso ao Sistema de Proteção dos Direitos Humanos Regional, os quais podem ser direcionados à tutela de um órgão jurisdicional ou quase-judicial, ou mesmo por outros meios que também promovam tais direitos e possibilitem sua reparação em caso de violação. Os diferentes mecanismos são utilizados pelos órgãos do Sistema Interamericano para tutelar os direitos econômicos, sociais e culturais. Dada a sua importância, Comissão e Corte Interamericanas de Direitos Humanos foram estudadas pela presente pesquisa, atribuindo-se enfoque a sua atuação para proteção dos direitos em tela, bem como sobre as recentes modificações das suas funções e ritos processuais.

The socio-economic of exclusion: Re-questioning citizenship in relation to social justice in the post Arab Spring Egypt. Arab Citizenship Review No. 15, 19 February 2016

The most recent official statistics reveal that over a quarter of Egypt’s population still live in poverty, a third of its youth are unemployed and three out of five children are malnourished. Much of the criticism of Egypt’s human rights record, particularly after the Arab Spring, remains focused on the country’s civil and political rights, and freedoms with an intentional (or unintentional) disregard to socioeconomic rights, fuelling widespread poverty, deteriorating living standards, socioeconomic exclusion and unequal and/or degrading treatment. This paper examines the socioeconomic policies of exclusion that are still undermining the enjoyment of basic citizenship rights in Egypt.

Witness Anonymity at the International Criminal Court: Due Process for Defendants, Witnesses or Both?

The question of how far and in what way to extend protection to witnesses in trials has manifested itself in institutions as diverse as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), the Committee of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the ad hoc criminal tribunals (International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Special Court for Sierra Leone), and most recently the International Criminal Court (ICC). This is not surprising; as David Lusty has pointed out in his seminal analysis of the use of anonymous accusers, the question has arisen in almost every legal deliberative body for the past two thousand years.

History of Fulton County, Illinois : together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, civil, military, and political history ...

The reproduction ... made possible through the sponsorship of the Fulton County Historical and Genealogical Society, Canton, Illinois.

History of Vernon County, Wisconsin, together with sketches of its towns, villages and townships, educational, civil, military and political history; portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizens; history of Wisconsin...

Illustrated.

The older Middle West, 1840-1880; its social, economic, and political life, and sectional tendencies before, during and after the Civil War.

At head of title: The American Historical Association.

The works of Alexander Hamilton ; comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the Federalist, civil and military.

Mode of access: Internet.

The politics of rights : lawyers, public policy, and political change /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The nation : the foundation of civil order and political life in the United States /

Mode of access: Internet.