Slave Labor: Uruk Cylinder-Seal Imagery and Early Writing

2018 ◽  
pp. 36-53
Author(s):  
Sarah Jarmer Scott
Keyword(s):  
Early Writing ◽  
Slave Labor

TRABALHO ESCRAVO CONTEMPORÂNEO: UM ESTUDO DA DECISÃO DA CORTE INTERAMERICANA DE DIREITOS HUMANOS NO CASO FAZENDA BRASIL VERDE VS. BRASILCONTEMPORARY SLAVE LABOR: A STUDY OF THE DE-CISION OF THE AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE FAZENDA BRASIL VERDE V. BRAZIL

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernanda da Silva Lima ◽  
Evelin Peruch Casagrande
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Slave Labor

A escravidão contemporânea é um meio de desrespeito aos direitos humanos, afrontando pelo menos dois aspectos do indivíduo, quais sejam a dignidade humana e a liberdade. Ocorre através da imposição de trabalho forçado, em condições degradantes e de maneira a atingir a dignidade da pessoa. Trata-se de pesquisa descritiva e exploratória envolvendo um estudo de caso. Utiliza o método dedutivo, com pesquisa teórica e qualitativa com emprego de material bibliográfico e documental legal. Este artigo tem como objetivo geral analisar e descrever as conseqüências jurídicas sofridas pelo Brasil através da sentença condenatória por escravidão contemporânea pela Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos, no caso “Fazenda Brasil Verde”. Para isso, apresenta como objetivos específicos: a) Compreender o processo de internacionalização dos direitos humanos e a criação dos sistemas internacionais de proteção, de forma específica o sistema interamericano; b) estudar a categoria trabalho digno em oposição ao trabalho análogo à escravidão e, c) analisar a sentença condenatória proferida pela Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos contra o Brasil. Na sentença restou claro que o Estado brasileiro descumpriu os preceitos existentes na Convenção Interamericana de Direitos Humanos no que se refere à prática de trabalho análogo ao de escravo, bem como as medidas adotadas pelo Brasil no combate e erradicação da escravidão contemporânea.

Searching for Justice After the Holocaust

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Bazyler ◽  
Kathryn Lee Boyd ◽  
Kristen L. Nelson ◽  
Rajika L. Shah
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Holocaust Survivors ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Slave Labor ◽  
Insurance Policies ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nazi Era ◽  
Property Restitution

The Nazis and their cohorts stole mercilessly from the Jews of Europe. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, returning survivors had to navigate unclear and hostile legal paths to recover their stolen property from governments and neighbors who often had been complicit in their persecution and theft. While the return of Nazi-looted art and recent legal settlements involving dormant Swiss bank accounts, unpaid insurance policies and use of slave labor by German companies have been well-publicized, efforts by Holocaust survivors and heirs over the last 70 years to recover stolen land and buildings were forgotten. In 2009, 47 countries convened in Prague to deal with the lingering problem of restitution of prewar private, communal, and heirless property stolen during the Holocaust. The outcome was the Terezin Declaration on Holocaust Era Assets and Related Issues, aiming to “rectify the consequences” of the wrongful Nazi-era immovable property seizures. This book sets forth the legal history of Holocaust immovable property restitution in each of the Terezin Declaration signatory states. It also analyzes how each of the 47 countries has fulfilled the standards of the Guidelines and Best Practices of the Terezin Declaration. These standards were issued in 2010 in conjunction with the establishment of the European Shoah Legacy Institute (ESLI), a state-sponsored NGO created to monitor compliance. The book is based on the Holocaust (Shoah) Immovable Property Restitution Study commissioned by ESLI, written by the authors and issued in Brussels in 2017 before the European Parliament.

Chekhov's Environmental Psychology: Medicine and the Early Stories

Slavic Review ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 709-730
Author(s):  
Matthew Mangold
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Environmental Psychology ◽  
Medical Writing ◽  
Early Writing ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Case Histories ◽  
Artistic Vision ◽  
Literary Writing ◽  
Core Issues

In light of the historical circumstances surrounding Anton Chekhov's early writing career and his own statements about the importance of medicine to it, there is surprisingly little scholarship on how medicine shaped his prose. What ideas was he introduced to in medical school and how did he apply them? Which of these drew his attention as he strove to articulate a new artistic vision? How did Chekhov draw on his experience with medicine to experiment with new themes and forms in his literary writing? This article addresses these questions by focusing on the aspects of medicine that had the most discernable influence on Chekhov as he developed his literary writing: hygiene, clinical medicine, and psychiatry. It argues that Chekhov engaged with core issues of medicine not only as a medical student who wrote case histories of his patients, but also as a groundbreaking writer. As he transcodes insights from the clinic into his prose, he creates a new conception of details that disclose relationships between settings and characters and an environmental psychology emerges across his medical writing and fiction. His stories envision relationships between physical and mental life with such originality that he becomes a new literary force not long after completing his medical education.

Seventh-Century Material Culture in Boiotia

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Larson
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Early Writing ◽  
Vase Painting ◽  
Artistic Production

This chapter briefly discusses aspects of the material culture of seventh-century bce Boiotia in general and makes specific reference to sites and areas of relevance in studying Hesiod, in particular Askra, Thespiai, the Valley of the Muses, Thebes, Plataiai, and Akraiphnia. It pays special attention to the sanctuary of Apollo on the Ismenion hill and to the Herakleion in Thebes, the sanctuary of the hero Herakles, who was worshipped there as an epichoric figure, and discusses inscriptions and finds from these two sites. The chapter also offers a view of Boiotia and of the environs of Thebes in particular as an early Greek center for artistic production during the time of Hesiod, as shown through vase painting, figurines, early writing, sculpture, and an artist’s signature.

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