Análisis de las limitaciones del Estado Colombiano para cumplir con los compromisos adquiridos en la convención de Ottawa de 1997 durante el periodo 2002-2006

La Convención de Ottawa de 1998 -sobre la prohibición del empleo, almacenamiento, producción y transferencia de minas Antipersonal y sobre su destrucción- hace parte de la respuesta internacional a la crisis de índole humanitaria originada por la expansión mundial de este tipo de armamentos. Este tipo de enemigo invisible se encuentra en más de 70 países, generando uno de los problemas humanitarios más graves y acuciantes de todos los tiempos que el ser humano haya podido padecer. Por lo anterior, al menos 90 países de los cuales hizo parte Colombia, se reunieron voluntariamente en 1997 a negociar un Tratado (de Ottawa) y que a la postre se ha convertido en un gran logro ya que por vez primera los países acordaron de conformidad con el Derecho Internacional Humanitario el cese total de la producción, almacenamiento, utilización de estos artefactos explosivos. Pese a la prohibición general impuesta por la Convención de Ottawa, la cual es válida de igual forma para todos los actores armados en el conflicto, hoy día se continúa registrando en el país un aumento generalizado en la utilización de minas. Es por ello, que el presente trabajo pretende identificar particularmente las principales limitaciones y obstáculos que se han presentado para que el Gobierno colombiano de cumplimiento satisfactorio en los tiempos estipulados con los compromisos adquiridos en dicho Tratado Internacional.

Prudentia Iuris, 1997, n° 44 (número completo)

Contenido: Semblanza del Doctor Jorge Joaquín Llambías / Guillermo A. Borda – El derecho a la identidad personal / José Luis Mozos – La mediación / Susana I. Cures – Bioética / Rubén Oscar Revello – La hipoteca cambiaria y de títulos-valores / Joaquín Rams Albesa – El Derecho Internacional Privado en las relaciones Mercosur-Unión Europea Nafta / Siegbert Rippe – La Convención Universal sobre derechos de los niños y adolescentes en la Constitución Nacional Argentina / Nora D’Alessandro Halty – Los acreedores en el proceso sucesorio / Claudia Schmidt Hott – Autonomía de la voluntad : problemática actual / María Cármen Gómez Laplaza – Actuación dañosa de los grupos / Ricardo de Ángel Yagüez – La legítima en el Derecho Romano / Alfredo Di Pietro

Convención marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre cambio climático: Análisis general y su incidencia en Colombia

La participación efectiva de los países en desarrollo en el actual proceso de negociación y sus preparativos constituye la base para dirimir los dos conflictos que aún hoy y en el pasado han sido el eje de la negociación

La alianza de estados insulares pequeños y la securitización del cambio climático en la convención marco de Naciones Unidas sobre cambio climático (1992-2012)

La presente monografía busca explicar el proceso de securitización realizado por la AOSIS del cambio climático en las COP de la CMNUCC. Esta investigación defiende que la AOSIS sí ha hecho dicho proceso a través de estrategias como el liderazgo moral y los nexos con actores no-estatales; pero dicho proceso no ha sido exitoso, dado el predominio del discurso del desarrollo sostenible en las negociaciones, el debilitamiento de la AOSIS como actor securitizador y el poco apoyo formal de las potencias emergentes y el bloque UMBRELLA. Para sustentar lo anterior, se realizará una revisión de informes científicos que demuestran que el cambio climático es una amenaza a la seguridad, y un estudio desde de la teoría de securitización de Thierry Balzacq, de los discursos dados por los estados AOSIS, de las COP y de las posiciones de algunos bloques de negociación sobre el cambio climático.

Panorama Social de América Latina 1997

Incluye Bibliografía

Hacia la igualdad de la mujer: avances legales desde la aprobación de la Convención sobre la eliminación de todas las formas de discriminación contra la mujer

Documento de Referencia DDR/1

The ethical predisposition of university students in Western Australia : 1997 vs 2007

A sample of 285 Western Australian university students was used to assess the prevailing attitudes regarding potential breaches of ethical conduct on the part of business practitioners and organisations. The authors developed an ethical profile for the 2007 sample based on 14 scenarios used in the questionnaire. This profile was then compared to the results from data collected in 1997 using similar sampling and the same survey instrument. The prevailing predisposition is best viewed as centrist in nature, with a move to a more ethical stance in the last 10 years.

A study and comparison of multimedia Web searching : 1997-2006

Searching for multimedia is an important activity for users of Web search engines. Studying user's interactions with Web search engine multimedia buttons, including image, audio, and video, is important for the development of multimedia Web search systems. This article provides results from a Weblog analysis study of multimedia Web searching by Dogpile users in 2006. The study analyzes the (a) duration, size, and structure of Web search queries and sessions; (b) user demographics; (c) most popular multimedia Web searching terms; and (d) use of advanced Web search techniques including Boolean and natural language. The current study findings are compared with results from previous multimedia Web searching studies. The key findings are: (a) Since 1997, image search consistently is the dominant media type searched followed by audio and video; (b) multimedia search duration is still short (>50% of searching episodes are <1 min), using few search terms; (c) many multimedia searches are for information about people, especially in audio search; and (d) multimedia search has begun to shift from entertainment to other categories such as medical, sports, and technology (based on the most repeated terms). Implications for design of Web multimedia search engines are discussed.

Flood fatalities in contemporary Australia (1997-2008) : disaster medicine

Objective: Flood is the most common natural disaster in Australia and causes more loss of life than any other disaster. This article describes the incidence and causes of deaths directly associated with floods in contemporary Australia. ---------- Methods: The present study compiled a database of flood fatalities in Australia in the period of 1997–2008 inclusive. The data were derived from newspapers and historic accounts, as well as government and scientific reports. Assembled data include the date and location of fatalities, age and gender of victims and the circumstances of the death. ---------- Results: At least 73 persons died as a direct result of floods in Australia in the period of 1997–2008. The largest number of fatalities occurred in New South Wales and Queensland. Most fatalities occurred during February, and among men (71.2%). People between the ages of 10 and 29 and those over 70 years are overrepresented among those drowned. There is no evident decline in the number of deaths over time. 48.5% fatalities related to motor vehicle use. 26.5% fatalities occurred as a result of inappropriate or high-risk behaviour during floods. ---------- Conclusion: In modern developed countries with adequate emergency response systems and extensive resources, deaths that occur in floods are almost all eminently preventable. Over 90% of the deaths are caused by attempts to ford flooded waterways or inappropriate situational conduct. Knowledge of the leading causes of flood fatalities should inform public awareness programmes and public safety police enforcement activities.

An annotated bibliography of phenomenographic research : Selected publications to 1997

This resource has been compiled from "Phenomenographic Research: An annotated Bibliogrphy (Third Edition)" and "1997 Supplement". This listing, containing more than one hundred citations, does not claim by any means to be comprehensive and it includes only material written in English. However, it has been attempted to cover material of significance in the development of phenomenographic research and pedagogy. The annotations in this publication are intended to offer prospective qualitative researchers and/or post-graduate research students a helping hand to enter the sometimes challenging research conversation that is centred around phenomenography. Please use this volume as diversely as your needs are to maximise its contents and to improve your experience of this distinctive approach to research.

The changing role of the supervisory board chairman: the case of the Netherlands (1997-2007)

Over the last ten years, the corporate governance context in most Western countries has changed as a result of irregularities, increased regulation, heightened societal expectations and shareholder activism. This paper examines the impact of the changing context on the role of chairmen of supervisory boards in the Netherlands. Based on a combination of thirty semi-structured interviews with board members of leading Dutch corporations and secondary data on the position of supervisory board chairmen at the top-100 listed firms in the Netherlands, the study reveals that board chairmen have become increasingly involved in both their control and service roles. While the demographics (i.e., age, tenure, gender and nationality) of chairmen have hardly changed over the last decade, chairmen are spending considerably more time on boards and committees, have reduced the number of board interlocks and have become more active on the forefront of the corporate governance discussion. The paper highlights several implications for scholars and practitioners.

Investigating the development of the internal and external service tasks of non-executive directors: the case of the Netherlands (1997-2005)

During the last decade, globalisation and liberalisation of financial markets, changing societal expectations and corporate governance scandals have increased the attention for the fiduciary duties of non-executive directors. In this context, recent corporate governance reform initiatives have emphasised the control task and independence of non-executive directors. However, little attention has been paid to their impact on the external and internal service tasks of non-executive directors. Therefore, this paper investigates how the service tasks of non-executive directors have evolved in the Netherlands. Data on corporate governance at the top-100 listed companies in the Netherlands between 1997 and 2005 show that the emphasis on non-executive directors' external service task has shifted to their internal service task, i.e. from non-executive directors acting as boundary spanners to non-executive directors providing advice and counselling to executive directors. This shift in board responsibilities affects non-executive directors' ability to generate network benefits through board relationships and has implications for non-executive directors' functional requirements.