As organizações internacionais e a proteção dos direitos dos indígenas no âmbito do Direito Internacional: especial referência ao sistema interamericano de direitos humanos e ao direito brasileiro

The purpose of this article is to analyze the role played by key international organizations, particularly those of the UN and the OAS systems in protecting the rights of indigenous peoples under international law. The method adopted for the preparation of this work is descriptive and analytical, applying document analysis based on primary literature sources, especially those arising in organs of the UN and inter-American systems, mainly the jurisprudence from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. This article starts with the assumption underlying that international organizations have a preponderant role in the need to safeguard and secure the universality and indivisibility of human rights of indigenous peoples. It is argued further that resolutions and conventions emanating from such organizations are absorbed by national legal order of States members, so that, once these standards internalized by States, they can acquire legal force, beyond moral, in order that their liability is accepted.

Literature guide for parents of preschoolers

This paper examines the need for a literature guide for parents of hearing-impaired preschoolers. It includes a number of literature-based activities to help parents develop and improve their children’s language and literacy skills.

Investigation and literature review of unilateral hearing loss

Literature and research were gathered and analyzed to determine the impact UHL has on a child’s education, speech and language development. The effects of early intervention and amplification were also analyzed.

Central auditory processing: a current literature review and summary of interviews with researchers on controversial issues related to auditory processing disorders

This paper discusses issues related to Auditory Processing Disorders (ADP) evaluation and management, focusing mainly on the disorder in children.

Literature review and analysis of itinerant teachers of the hearing impaired located in the midwest: Service delivery model in education

The role and responsibilities of an itinerant teacher of students who are deaf or hard of hearing were investigated to create a database of information about the effective traits of successful itinerant teachers.

A literature review of three common balance tests: Electronystagmography, Rotary Chair Testing, and Computerized Dynamic Posturography

This paper discusses the rationale, clinical applications, advantages and disadvantages of three common balance function tests: Electronystagmography (ENG), Rotational Chair Testing (RCT), and Computerized Dynamic Posturography (CDP).

La libertad personal y la pena privativa de la libertad desde la interculturalidad: una aproximación a los fines de la pena desde la interculturalidad

En la presente investigación sobre la interculturalidad de la libertad y la pena privativa de la libertad, existieron dificultades, por una parte, no encontramos literatura sea occidental o andina que se hayan preocupado por este diálogo; y, por otra, existen trabajos que ven a las dos filosofías en fase descriptiva. Por lo cual nuestro objetivo, en los dos primeros capítulos, fue efectuar una descripción y construcción, qué es y cómo se entiende la libertad y la pena en cada una de estas filosofías o culturas; nos encontramos con abundante construcción occidental frente a la escasa entrega de la construcción andina, es una de las dificultades, en consecuencia, los argumentos que se pudieron entregar se sustentan en las interpretaciones de los autores en su mayoría indígenas como Ilaquiche, Tibán, Llasag y en Catherine Walsh, Esther Sánchez Botero, Elisa Cruz y Joseph Estermann quienes justifican la existencia de la comunidad, del derecho indígena, los derechos colectivos, administración de justicia. Hacen un enunciado de una interculturalidad crítica, pero no profundizan como construir la misma. Una vez descritos los temas, en el tercer capítulo, fue realizar el diálogo, en todas las fuentes consultadas ninguna explicaba cómo hacerlo, excepto el maestro Boaventura de Sousa Santos con su hermenéutica diatópica. Con sus explicaciones y ejemplos propuestos, se hizo un esfuerzo que todavía no llena las expectativas, pero constituye en una breve aproximación al debate que significa el repensar nuestra forma de vivir, entender e interpretar el mundo en el cual vivimos con la existencia de varias culturas. La investigación sobre el tema propuesto llena un vacío de los tantos existentes en el campo de la bibliografía jurídica constitucional de nuestro país, y por lo pronto las líneas trazadas colaboran con el debate y la construcción de la interculturalidad.

State Policies, Territories and Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Ecuador (1983-2012)

This work seeks to reconstruct the dynamics of the agreements and disagreements between the State and the indigenous peoples in Ecuador, emphasising particularly on two key elements: first, the indigenous peoples participation and exercise of their political rights, in particular the right to self-government and autonomy within their jurisdictions; and secondly, indigenous peoples’ degree of direct influence on public policies’ formulation and implementation, specially those directly affecting their territories, including the exploitation of natural resources. In Ecuador, during this historical period, the state has gone through three major moments in its relationship with indigenous peoples: neo - indigenism associated to developmentalism (1980-1984); multiculturalism associated to neoliberalism (1984- 2006) as one of the dominant trends over the period; and the crisis of neoliberalism and the search for national diversity and interculturalism associated to post- neoliberalism (2007-2013). Each has had a particular connotation, as to the scope and methods to respond to indigenous demands. In this context, this research aims to answer the central question: how has the Ecuadorian State met the demands of the indigenous movement in the last three decades, and how has it ensured the validity of their gradually recognized rights? And how and to what extent by doing so, it contradicts and alters the existing economic model based on the extraction of primary resources?

Trends and gaps in the academic literature on EU labour migration policies. CEPS Paper in Liberty and Security No. 50/December 2012

This paper provides an overview of the ‘state of the art’ in the academic literature on EU labour migration policies. It forms part of the research agenda of Work Package 18 of the NEUJOBS project, which aims at reviewing legislation and practices regarding the labour market inclusion and protection of rights of different categories of foreign workers in European labour markets. Accordingly, particular attention is paid to the works of scholars who evaluate the status of rights of third-country national workers in relation to labour market access, employment security, social integration, etc., in European legislation on labour immigration. More specifically, the review has selected those scholarly works that focus specifically on analysing the manner in which policy-makers have addressed the granting of rights to non-EU migrant workers, and the manner in which policy agendas – through the relevant political and institutional dynamics – have found their translation in the legislation adopted. This paper consists of two core parts. In the first section, it reviews the works of scholars who have touched on these research questions with respect to the internal dimensions of EU labour migration policies. The second section does the same for the external dimensions of these policies. Both sections start off by analysing the main trends in the literature that reviews these questions for the internal and external dimensions of European migration policies as a whole, and then move on to how these ‘trends’ can (or cannot) be found translated in scholarly writings on labour migration policies more specifically. In the final section, the paper concludes by summarising the main trends and gaps in the literature reviewed, and indicates avenues for further research.