scholarly journals ‘To Hell with Bishops’: Rethinking the Nexus of State, Law and Religion in Times of Crisis in Zimbabwe

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 304
Author(s):  
Bekithemba Dube
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
State Law ◽  
Religion And Law ◽  
The Government ◽  
Democratic Nation ◽  
State Responses

The article addresses the responses of the government of Zimbabwe and its proxies to a letter issued by Catholic bishops on 14 August 2020, entitled ‘The march is not ended’. The response to the letter presents an ambivalent view of the nexus of the state, law and religion in Zimbabwe, which needs to be teased out and challenged in order to reinvent a democratic nation. This theoretical article taps into decoloniality theory to problematise state responses to the letter. The articles discuss responses by government actors, such as Monica Mutswanga and Nick Magwana, and regime enablers, such as Mutendi and Wutawunashe. The responses indicate the weaponization of religion and law to silence dissenting voices, and to enact a skewed nationalism. The article argues that, in the context of crisis, authoritarianism, and abuse of human rights, politicians and religious leaders should position their narratives to enact social justice, ontological density, peace and accountability, as a healing process to usher in sustainable development.

scholarly journals Linking the SDGS with human rights: opportunities and challenges of promoting goal 17

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-72
Author(s):  
Wekgari Dulume
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Partnerships ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Government ◽  
Principles And Standards

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is grounded in different international human rights instruments. Human rights (HR) principles and standards are strongly reflected in several of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and targets. Furthermore, SDG 17 emphasizes partnership as a key to achieving all of the SDGs. This article examines the SDGs-HR linkage in general, as well as specific HR principles that can be advanced by the achievement of SDG 17. Opportunities and challenges to promote Goal 17 of the SDGs that directly affect certain HRs are also examined. A review of relevant literature, 2030 summit documents, and outcomes of recent international conferences on the SDGs is undertaken in order to determine the progress made towards forging regional and global partnerships for the SDGs, as envisaged in Goal 17. This article finds that the absence of a political will and commitment, increased isolationist policy, narrow nationalism and poor rule linkage at national and international levels are some of the obstacles to the attainment of Goal 17. Yet, opportunities abound to promote the Goal. The article recommends a genuine commitment to implementing the SDGs by encouraging the South-South and North-South to prevent the SDGs from becoming a mere wishlist. Synergy between the government, individuals, civil society organizations (CSOs) and transnational corporations (TNCs) is equally very important. Keywords: Human rights, sustainable development goals, partnership for the goals.

scholarly journals GOOD GOVERNANCE PERSPEKTIF MAQAASID ASY-SYAARI’AH KONTEMPORER

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Muhammad Iqbal Juliansyahzen
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Business Sector ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
The Government

AbstractGood governance is a concept for governance that should be run. Theoretically, the discourse of good governance reaps its pros and cons since it had been firstly introduced. However, as a concept and a strategic offer it deserves to be appreciated and re-examined. There are principles in good governance that are compatible with Islam such as accountability, transparency, deliberation, and others. Good governance will be achieved when it involves a good communication among the government, civil society, and the business sector. The author uses the perspective of contemporary maqaasid asy-shari'ah to view the discourse with more emphasis on development and right. The perspective is different from the old maqasid which emphasizes more on the protection and preservation. The result of the study shows that good governace needs  harmonious relationship among the followers of religion, social justice, organized and equitable education, human rights protection, and the development of civilized law.Keywords : Good Governance, Maqâsid asy-Syaari’ah, DevelopmentAbstrakGood governance merupakan sebuah konsep tata kelola pemerintahan yang seharusnya dijalankan. Secara teoritis, diskursus good governace menuai pro-kontra sejak awal kemunculannya. Meskipun demikian, sebagai sebuah konsep dan tawaran strategis patut untuk diapresiasi dan dikaji kembali. Terdapat prinsip-prinsip dalam good governance yang berkesesuaian dengan Islam diantaranya akuntabilitas, transparansi, musyawarah, dan lainnya. Upaya mewujudkannya tidak hanya dilakukan oleh satu pihak saja, tetapi komunikasi antara pemerintah (goverment), masyarakat sipil, dan sektor dunia usaha. Dalam melihat diskursus ini, penulis menggunakan perspektif maqaasid asy-Syaari’ah kontemporer dengan lebih menekankan pada development (pembangunan; pengembangan) dan right (hak-hak). Berbeda dengan maqasid lama lebih pada protection (perlindungan) dan preservation (penjagaan; pelestarian). Berdasarkan hasil kajian tersebut bahwa dalam mewujudkan good governace diperlukan pembangunan dalam berbagai aspek seperti membangun hubungan harmonis antar pemeluk agama, mewujudkan keadilan sosial, penyelenggaran dan pemerataan pendidikan, perlindungan terhadap hak asasi manusia, pembangunan hukum berkeadaban.. Kata kunci: Good Governance, Maqaasid asy-Syaari’ah, dan Pembangunan

scholarly journals Social Justice, Food Loss, and the Sustainable Development Goals in the Era of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 5027 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Fleetwood
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Food Loss ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Global Food ◽  
Global Food Supply

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) rest on a set of broadly accepted values within a human rights framework. The SDGs seek to improve human lives, improve the planet, and foster prosperity. This paper examines the human rights framework and the principles of social justice and shows that, while the SDGs do not specifically state that there is human right to food, the SDGs do envision a better, more just, world which rests upon the sufficiency of the global food supply, on environmental sustainability, and on food security for all. Then the paper examines the interrelationships between the SDGs, food access and waste, and human rights within a framework of social justice. Finally, it looks at the potential pandemic of hunger wrought by COVID-19, showing that COVID-19 serves as an example of a crisis that has raised unprecedented challenges to food loss and waste in the global food supply system and tests our commitment to the principles espoused by the SDGs.

scholarly journals Surveillance, Risk and Preemption on the Australian Border

2002 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean Wilson ◽  
Leanne Weber
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Risk Profiling ◽  
Global Patterns ◽  
The Government ◽  
Social Sorting ◽  
And Control ◽  
Border Surveillance

In this paper we will map and analyze Australian border surveillance technologies. In doing so, we wish to interrogate the extent to which these surveillance practices are constitutive of new regimes of regulation and control. Surveillance technologies, we argue, are integral to strategies of risk profiling, social sorting and "punitive pre-emption." The Australian nation-state thus mirrors broader global patterns in the government of mobility, whereby mobile bodies are increasingly sorted into kinetic elites and kinetic underclasses. Surveillance technologies and practices positioned within a frame of security and control diminish the spaces that human rights and social justice might occupy. It is therefore imperative that critical scholars examine the moral implications of risk and identify ways in which spaces for such significant concerns might be forged.

scholarly journals Sustentabilidade nas organizações: o caso da empresa de participações e investimentos ## Sustainability in organizations: the case of the participation and investment company

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cláudio Luiz Chiusoli ◽  
Silvio Roberto Stefano ◽  
Gilmar Carlos da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Investment Company ◽  
Training Time ◽  
Development History ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government

ResumoA preocupação com o desenvolvimento sustentável e a sustentabilidade vai muito além dos cuidados com o meio ambiente, além do contexto histórico do desenvolvimento sustentável, relata uma perspectiva social mais abrangente, direitos humanos, questões de desenvolvimento social. O tema sustentabilidade vem se destacando não somente pela escassez de matéria-prima, mas também pela cobrança dos diversos públicos envolvidos, sejam eles clientes, fornecedores, funcionários e até mesmo o próprio governo; estes diversos públicos querem organizações focadas no objetivo socioambiental e a sua transparência quanto a suas ações para com assunto. O objetivo do artigo é, a partir dos relatórios anuais de uma empresa de participações e investimentos no período de 2012 a 2017, analisar a evolução do quadro de funcionários, números de acidentes, tempo de treinamento e investimentos em programas socioambientais dentro do contexto do desenvolvimento sustentável e sustentabilidade. A metodologia adotada foi uma análise documental por meio de um estudo de caso, verificando 6 relatórios anuais de sustentabilidade da empresa objeto do estudo, mediante verificação dos dados divulgados no site da organização. Os achados apontaram que a organização realizou investimentos em treinamentos e na diminuição da relação do número de acidentes. AbstractThe concern for sustainable development and sustainability goes far beyond caring for the environment reports beyond the context of sustainable development history, a broader social perspective, human rights, social development issues. The sustainability theme has been highlighted not only by the scarcity of raw materials, but also by the collection of the various publics involved, whether they are customers, suppliers, employees and even the government itself, these various publics want organizations focused on the socio-environmental objective and also their transparency regarding their actions towards the subject. The objective of the article is, based on the annual reports of a participation and investment company from 2012 to 2017, to analyze the evolution of the staff, accident numbers, training time and investments in environmental partner programs within the context of sustainable development and sustainability.

Green Constitution: Strengthening Environment Principle in the Act of 1945

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 1044
Author(s):  
Netty S.R. NAIBORHU
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Legal Subject ◽  
Approach Method ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government

Environmental issues should not be placed on one side, namely the government (legislative, executive and judicative), but all components of the existing layer in a country must be able to interpret the green constitution in the hearts of each. Green constitution as the idea of constitutionalizing the norm of environmental law into the constitution by raising the draft of environmental protection norms to the constitution level. Approach method used in this research using a normative juridical approach with the focus related to the green constitution as reinforcement of environmental principles in the Constitution with data obtained and analyzed by using a qualitative normative method. This constitutionalization can be grouped into three types. First, formal constitutionalization. This group has a style in which the constitutionalization of environmental policy is carried out by putting it in a formal form on the environment and ideas of sustainable development; Secondly, substantial Constitutionalization. This model is interpreted as a practice of constitutionalization that is not only limited to formal but substantially. As for a reason, that environmental policy becomes the spirit (spirit) of the constitution in a country, Third, structural constitutionalization. This model is an extreme ending which changes the environmental paradigm of the object into the subject of human rights so that the environment can be viewed as a separate legal subject structure beside the human subject.

scholarly journals Green Economy and Sustainable Development in the Sultanate of Oman

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahlam Salim Al Siyabi ◽  
Ahmad Nawaz AHakro
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Environmental Indicators ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Relationship

Green economy is considered to be the emerging economy of the twenty-first century, as the world is changing its development path from unjust development to environmentally sensitive green development. Making the economy environmentally sustainable is no longer an option but an urgent necessity to achieve a balanced vision between social justice and environmental future. This work highlights the statues of the environment in Oman and the efforts to overcome the difficulties that prevent the transition to a green economy. This will encourage people to consider innovation and think about the values that will be gained from the transformation of the economy. Due to increased greenhouse gas emissions from industries based on non-renewable sources of energy, harmful carbon effects and scarce resources will increase in the near future. It is necessary to know the extent to which the Omani economy is green and the extent of its growth policies corresponding’s to the transformation of the economy. It is equally important to analyze which mechanisms the government will adopt to reduce carbon emissions and global warming. This paper will explain the relationship between Green economy and Sustainable development in Oman and to what extant Oman is green. The objectives are to establish the relationship between green economy and sustainable development in the Omani context, to assess and measure the role of the green economy in achieving goals of sustainable benefits for the local economy. Also, it is important to inform the public about the importance of using green economy for the next generations and encouraging individuals to contribute to environmental protection on daily life routine, and to achieving a balanced vision between social justice and environmental future. The methodology considers the three types of indicators: Economic indicators, Environmental indicators related to economic activity, and Aggregate indicators on the path of progress and social welfare. In addition to primary and secondary data. The main outcome of this research is that the Sultanate is not green growing, as it is still highly dependent on non-renewable resources, therefore Oman should set a stronger lows on this issue.

scholarly journals Intellectual Property and Openness: A Research Perspective and Agenda

2021 ◽  
pp. 700-713
Author(s):  
Caroline B Ncube
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Patent Law ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
Research Questions

This chapter considers the various methodologies used and arguments advanced by scholarship which employs an openness paradigm to examine intellectual property (IP), specifically in copyright and patent law. It presents the key attributes of openness, as developed in scholarly literature and research practices. It highlights the underpinning justifications for openness which include social justice imperatives, sustainable development, human development, and human rights, with emphasis on the development of human rights framing. It reprises topical aspects that remain on the normative agenda to inform ongoing and future scholarship founded on international and national perspectives or developmental agendas. Drawing from examples of recent research, it explores how research questions related to copyright and patents have been cast from the standpoint of openness and closes by envisaging some ways in which such scholarship may be advanced methodologically and substantively.

scholarly journals ANALISIS PEMBUBARAN ORGANISASI KEMASYARAKATAN DALAM PERSPEKTIF ASAS CONTARIUS ACTUS DALAM NEGARA HUKUM

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (02) ◽  
pp. 57-78
Author(s):  
Moh. Jatim
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Community Organization ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
The State ◽  
State Law ◽  
Freedom Of Association ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Government

Abstrak Pemerintah mempunyai hak mutlak di dalam membubarkan Organisasi kemasyarakatan setelah di sahkannya Peraturan pemerintah Pengganti Undang-Undang No 2 Tahun 2017 menjadi Undang-Undang Nomor 16 Tahun 2017 Tentang Organisasi Kemasyarakatann, hal ini jelas tidak mencerminkan prinsip dari sebuah negara yang mengeklaim dirinya sebagai Negara yang menjunjung supremasi hukum, dimana ciri-ciri dari Negara hukum itu menjunjung tinggi tentang hak asasi manusia dan pembagian kekuasaan. Argumentasi penggunaan asas contarius Actus sebagai alasan mendesak untuk membentuk suatu Peraturan Pemerintah Pengganti Undang Undang yang kemudian di sahkan menjadi Undang Undang memberikan batasan terhadap kemerdekaan berserikat yang di jamin oleh Pasal 28 dan Pasal 28J Undang-Undang Dasar tahun 1945. Berdasarkan Undang Undang Dasar  Tahun 1945, sistem check and balances (pengawasan dan keseimbangan) sangat penting di tekankan di dalam pembagian kekuasaan yang jelas antara fungsi Eksekutif dan yudikatif. Artinya, di dalam pembubaran sebuah organisasi haruslah melibatkan pengadilan dengan cara melakukan penataan penyelesaian asas peradilan yang cepat, sederhana dan dengan biaya ringan sehingga proses penyelesaian sebuah masalah bisa di laksanakan secara singkat dan cepat. Kata Kunci : Organisasi kemasyarakatan, Negara Hukum, Kekuasaan   Abstract The government has an absolute right in disbanding the Community Organization after the enactment of the Government Regulation Replacement Law No. 2 of 2017 into Law No. 16 of 2017 on Community Organizations, this clearly does not reflect the principle of a country that claims itself as a State that upholds the supremacy of the law, where the characteristics of the State law upholds human rights and the division of power. The argument of the use of the principle of contarius Actus as an urgent reason to form a Government Regulation Replacement Law which is then authorized into law provides limits on the freedom of association guaranteed by Article 28 and Article 28J of the Constitution of 1945. Based on the 1945 Constitution, the system of check and balances is very important in the clear division of power between the Executive and judicial functions. That is, in the dissolution of an organization must involve the court by structuring the settlement of judicial principles quickly, simply and at a small cost so that the process of solving a problem can be carried out briefly and quickly. Keywords: Community Organization, State of Law, Power

scholarly journals Awareness on Constitutional Rights of Citizens and Form of Protection of Constitutional Rights of Citizens in Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 1003
Author(s):  
Tafta Aji Prihandono ◽  
Sri Kusriyah Kusriyah ◽  
Widayati Widayati
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The State ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Dynamic Aspect ◽  
State Law ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government

In the Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia of 1945 Article 1 (3) explicitly states that Indonesia is a State of Law. One element that is owned by the state law is the fulfillment of basic human rights as expressed by Friedrich Julius Stahl. Efforts to achieve a constitution that can follow the progress and will meet the basic human rights, the constitution must have a dynamic aspect and were able to capture the phenomenon of historical change, so as to make it as a constitution that is always alive. Only problem is the performance of the Government as the executor of the constitution (executive, legislative and judicial) still do not provide justice and satisfaction for those seeking justice, therefore the necessary awareness of constitutional rights of citizens in Indonesia. Efforts to protect the constitutional rights of Indonesian citizens can be done through the court and non-court lines, and can also via maximize the role of the Constitutional Court to extend its authority. The expansion of the authority of the Constitutional Court may be to accommodate Constitutional Complaint and Constitutional Question.Keywords: Awareness; Constitutional Rights; Form of Protection.

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