Assessing the Impact of the Public Spending Cuts: Taking Human Rights and Equality Seriously

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Spending Cuts

Human rights restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland and Russia. Legal and comparative aspects

2021 ◽  
Vol 2(24) ◽  
pp. 323-340
Author(s):  
Marta Pietras-Eichberger
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
European Union ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
The Impact

The study analyzed selected issues related to the scope of human rights and freedoms during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland and Russia. The author wanted to compare the regulations issued by a Member State of the European Union and a country outside the European Union, often using undemocratic methods of exercising power. The work focuses on research problems related to the principles of protection, the confrontation of individual interests with the public interest, and the impact of the regimes introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic on human rights law in both countries. The thesis of the study is that in the event of a threat to public health, analogous restrictions on human rights are introduced both in an undemocratic country and in a country belonging to international structures identifying with democratic values. The state of the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed, and in some area even contributed to the creation of mechanisms reserved for crisis situations, posing a direct and real threat to public safety and health.

scholarly journals The Impact of Experience with a Family Member with Alzheimer’s Disease on Views about the Disease across Five Countries

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Blendon ◽  
John M. Benson ◽  
Elizabeth M. Wikler ◽  
Kathleen J. Weldon ◽  
Jean Georges ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
The United States ◽  
Direct Experience ◽  
Fatal Disease ◽  
The Public ◽  
Educational Campaigns ◽  
The Impact

The objective of this paper is to understand how the public’s beliefs in five countries may change as more families have direct experience with Alzheimer’s disease. The data are derived from a questionnaire survey conducted by telephone (landline and cell) with 2678 randomly selected adults in France, Germany, Poland, Spain, and the United States. The paper analyzes the beliefs and anticipated behavior of those in each country who report having had a family member with Alzheimer’s disease versus those who do not. In one or more countries, differences were found between the two groups in their concern about getting Alzheimer’s disease, knowledge that the disease is fatal, awareness of certain symptoms, and support for increased public spending. The results suggest that as more people have experience with a family member who has Alzheimer’s disease, the public will generally become more concerned about Alzheimer’s disease and more likely to recognize that Alzheimer’s disease is a fatal disease. The findings suggest that other beliefs may only be affected if there are future major educational campaigns about the disease. The publics in individual countries, with differing cultures and health systems, are likely to respond in different ways as more families have experience with Alzheimer’s disease.

scholarly journals Epidemics, genome editing and human rights

2021 ◽  
pp. 199-209
Author(s):  
Branislav Fabry
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Genome Editing ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Western World ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Treatment ◽  
The Impact

The article deals with the contemporary legal and ethical challenges, caused by coronavirus COVID-19. It analyses the reason why the western world was so much surprized by that pandemics. The text mentions the succeses of western medicine in the battle against epidemics in the 20th century and sees it as one of the reason for underestimating the public health issues in 21st century. The article also emphasizes on other contemporary threat, the antimicrobiotic resistance and the need for new legal answers to pandemics. It deals with problem of human genome editing as the central topic by creating of hereditary immunity against new viral threats. The text also mentions the risks of such new treatment and the impact on human dignity that is understood as leading value in the contemporary legal regulation on biotechnology.

The New Fundraisers

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Breeze
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Original Data ◽  
The Public ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The People ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Spending Cuts

This book is the first academic study of the profession of fundraising in the UK. Fundraising is an essential yet largely invisible career, despite its growing importance during a period of extensive public spending cuts and growing reliance on charities. There is a growing body of work focused on donors, such that the identity and motivation of those who provide resources are increasingly understood. Yet little is known about the motivation and characteristics of those who ask for voluntary support, despite almost every donation being solicited. As it is not possible to understand charitable giving without accounting for the role of fundraising, this book provides the first empirically-grounded and theorised account of the identity, characteristics and motivation of fundraisers in the UK. Based on original data collected during a 3-year study of over 1,200 fundraisers, the book describes the complexity and subtlety of their everyday practices and makes an argument that the ‘new fundraisers’ have recently emerged in a necessarily complementary relationship with the far more widely discussed phenomenon of the ‘new philanthropists’. As well as a corrective to the lack of meaningful academic interest in this subject, this book is also a response to the growing hostility to fundraising in both the public and political spheres. It provides a better understanding of this important aspect of social life, and challenges the illogical position whereby charities are widely admired, but the people who keep them in business are not.

Nurses and Requests for Female Genital Mutilation: cultural rights versus human rights

2001 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Sala ◽  
Duilio Manara
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Female Genital Mutilation ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Genital Mutilation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Italian Law ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Female Genital

In this article we focus on female genital mutilation. We analyse this problem as one of the most important issues of multiculturalism, which is also coming to the attention of the public in Italy as a consequence of the growing number of immigrants from African countries. The fundamental problem is about the acceptability of this practice: can female genital mutilation be permitted and, if so, on what basis? We will try to cope with this as a genuine conflict between culture-relative values and universal values, such as human rights. Some attention will be drawn to Italian law. Finally, the impact on nurses of requests for genital mutilation will be described.

scholarly journals ‘You are not my type’: The role of identity in evaluating democracy & human rights promotion

2021 ◽  
pp. 136914812110169
Author(s):  
Efe Tokdemir
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Group Versus ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Democracy Promotion ◽  
Opinion Survey ◽  
The Public ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Hearts And Minds

In this article, we examine the impact of the democracy and human rights promotion efforts that are supposed to bolster positive attitudes among the public abroad and act as a tool to reach hearts and minds. Yet, we suggest that a salient in-group versus out-group dichotomy within a society could activate a reactive devaluation bias, and hence, conditions how individuals perceive and react to foreign actors and their policies depending on the source country and its links with in- and out-groups within the target state. By employing an original public opinion survey from Lebanon, we find that identities, and the level of attachment to the identity, affect individuals’ attitudes towards human rights and democracy promotion efforts. Our results offer important policy implications: practitioners should comprehensively reconsider the benefits of hearts and minds tools, as pre-existing attitudes are the main drivers of how these policies will be evaluated by the public abroad.

scholarly journals The Implementation of International Trademark Registration in Indonesia Post-Ratification of Madrid Protocol

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-60
Author(s):  
Andry Setiawan ◽  
Dewi Sulistyaningsih ◽  
Leo Bernado Aglesius
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Member Country ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Registration System ◽  
The Public ◽  
International Bureau ◽  
Directorate General ◽  
Trademark Registration ◽  
The Impact

In early October 2017, the Indonesian government, represented by the Directorate General of Intellectual Property of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, has officially ratified the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (Madrid Protocol). The ratification is contained in the Presidential Regulation No. 92 of 2017 on Ratification of Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks, 1989. The Presidential Regulation shall be the legal basis of enforcement that regulates the international trademark registration in Indonesia. The concept offered through the international trademark registration system based on the Madrid Protocol is its practicality which passes only one examination, one Language, one currency and it is integrated by the International Bureau administered by WIPO without changing the sovereignty of each member country which ratifies the system. The objective of this paper is to find out how the trademark registration is implemented based on the Madrid Protocol after its ratification in Indonesia and how the system will impact. The results of this paper will be beneficial for the public so that they know the mechanism of the international trademark registration and the impact of this system

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