scholarly journals WHO ethics guidance on TB care and migration: challenges to the implementation process

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
V. Wild ◽  
M. Frick ◽  
J. Denholm

We summarise the current ethical guidance on tuberculosis (TB) care and migration, as set out in the WHO “Ethics Guidance for the Implementation of the End TB Strategy.” Among other aspects, the Ethics Guidance states that there should be firm legal principles in place that ensure the enforcement of migration law on the one hand and the protection of human rights, including the right to health, on the other are separated from one another. As a challenge to the Ethics Guidance and its implementation, we describe two cases, each of which typifies particular problems. Case one describes the experience of a migrant worker in the United Arab Emirates who is deported when mandatory medical exams show evidence of current or prior TB. Case two raises the issue of providing more than TB care, which may also be needed for holistic care. The paper concludes with our suggestions for ways in which we could make progress towards ethically optimal TB care for migrants.

Author(s):  
Evelien Brouwer

‘EU legality’ in EU migration and asylum laws can be considered as a double-edged sword. This chapter describes how, on the one hand, the CJEU, by the mere application of general principles of EU law, offered in its case-law important criteria strengthening the rights and legal protection of third-country nationals while, on the other hand, more recent developments show that the EU legislator, but also the CJEU, almost artificially excludes migration laws or decisions from the legal framework of the EU. It will be argued that developments of ‘re-nationalization’, the application of mutual trust, and the externalization of EU asylum and migration policies, challenge the applicability of general principles of EU legality, including the protection of fundamental rights and the right to effective judicial protection.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Balazs Vedres

How do politicians gain an upper hand in political discourse? Recent literature on framings in political discourse have re-directed attention from static models of issue ownership to more interactive models of strategic framing contests. This article proposes a robust action approach, and tests hypotheses about the dual repertoires of local action: First, we test for the presence of exploratory local action, when discourse positions are altered in response to positions by others, and second, we show evidence for the presence of role claim behavior, when a dominant discourse position is taken that silences others. Using the case of economic policy discourse in Hungary in 1997, we show how the “GDP growth” discourse position silenced opposition positions on the right, mostly built from stigmatizing frames. Discourse positions beyond the one built around growth did not silence alternative framings, but elicited discourse shifts. We coded 8632 utterances over 100 days of discourse into a two-mode network of speech acts and statements and used a two-mode blockmodeling approach to identify positions and frames. We used a pooled time series approach to test hypotheses of local action dynamics. We found evidence for both exploratory local action and role claim, while controlling for observed and unobserved heterogeneity at the actor level.


2019 ◽  
pp. 14-16
Author(s):  
Оlha MALINOVSKA ◽  
Uliana MOTORNIUK

Introduction. Transformation processes in Ukraine dictate the need to formulate such a concept of state financial policy, which would be the beginning of economic growth. This primarily leads to the creation at the territorial level of strong economic and financial systems that can independently solve local socio-economic problems. It is necessary to determine the role of material and financial support in the life of local self-government, the boundaries of a harmonious combination of economic feasibility of the existence of territorial communities with the main goal of the existence of local self-government in general - to meet the basic vital needs of citizens at the place of residence. The purpose of the paper is to study and analyze the material and financial provision of local communities during decentralization. Results. The analysis of the essence of the concept of "material and financial basis of local self-government" suggests that it is quite multifaceted. In some cases, it focuses on its economic essence, in others it is legal. Although the link and the significance of both spheres are evident. This is also explained by the dual nature of property and finance, namely, economic and legal. Principles of the formation of the material and financial basis of local self-government are the initial principles, ideas and principles, which are the basis of the organization and activity of the territorial communities, the population, representative bodies which they are formed, local executive bodies, caused primarily by the essence of local self-government those involved in the management of local material and financial resources. On the one hand, the material and financial basis is divided into two parts: material and financial. On the other hand, the components of the material and financial basis of local self-government are: first, communal or municipal property (in Ukraine, the communal property is recognized and regulated by law); and secondly, revenues (revenues) of local budgets and other funds; and thirdly, another property that is designed and used to meet the local needs of the population. Conclusion. Considering that the right to education, medical care guaranteed, guaranteed by the constitution, etc. should be ensured, and in order to prevent a biased distribution of financial resources in budget calculations, it is necessary to organize work on the calculation and consolidation at the legislative level of normative indicators of financial support of existing state social standards.


2003 ◽  
Vol 97 (3) ◽  
pp. 659-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
David D. Caron ◽  
Rhona K. M. Smith

Goodwin v. United Kingdom. App. No. 28957/95. At <http://www.echr.coe.int/Eng/Judgments.htm>.European Court of Human Rights, Grand Chamber, July 11, 2002.I. v. United Kingdom. App. No. 25680/94. At <http://www.echr.coe.int/Eng/Judgments.htm>. European Court of Human Rights, Grand Chamber, July 11, 2002.Under English law, people may change their names and use those new names for official purposes. At the same time, specified biological criteria determine the sex of individuals under the law for various purposes, including marriage and retirement pensions. In Goodwin v. United Kingdom and I. v. United Kingdom, the question presented was whether such biological criteria impermissibly operate to the prejudice of postoperative transsexuals. The grand chamber of the European Court of Human Rights unanimously concluded that the practice of restricting gender in national law to the one registered at birth infringed both the right to respect for private life and the right to marry, contrary to the guarantees of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.


Author(s):  
Joanne Stubley

This chapter explores the links between migration and trauma, drawing on research findings for traumatized asylum seekers and refugees to explore some of the controversies and debates with in the field, particularly in the area of therapeutic interventions. Interwoven with this is a description of a psychoanalytic understanding of trauma and migration. This is used to elaborate on the complexity of the experiences, as well as touching on the impact on the professional in working with traumatized people. The two themes running through this chapter are the complex interaction between migration and trauma, on the one hand, and managing traumatic experiences, on the other hand. Using case examples these features are illustrated to enable clinicians to offer the right therapeutic interventions. Complex post-traumatic disorder is not uncommon and requires focused and targeted interventions. Post-migration stress or culture shock need to be identified and managed.


2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 1371-1376
Author(s):  
Temelko Risteski ◽  
Georgi Tonovski ◽  
Vesna Sijic

Police in a democratic society is a service of the citizens. Its main tasks are the maintenance of public order and peace, the direct protection of human rights of citizens, the prevention of criminal acts and the fight against crime. As a service of the citizens, the police is obliged to respect human rights while performing the activities within its competence. The police have a dual role in securing human rights. On the one hand, it is obliged to protect human rights. On the other hand, when taking police powers, it should be extremely careful and not allow human rights to be endangered by exceed police powers.The powers of the Macedonian police in the performance of the activities under its competence are prescribed by the Law on Internal Affairs and the Law on Police. They are numerous. Among them are the use of firearms and other means of coercion. In addition, it has the right to examine citizens, the right to detention and deprivation of liberty. These and other powers of the police are always followed by a latent danger of being exceeded and thus, human rights to be harmed.The paper deal protection of human rights in cases of exceed police powers such as unlawful and unprofessional conduct, offensive and degrading behavior, harassment, excessive use of force with elements of torture, brutal behavior, bodily injuries, etc. In addition, the paper includes mechanisms for prevention of overstepping of police powers from the aspect of human rights protection.


2007 ◽  
pp. 4-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Polterovich ◽  
V. Popov ◽  
A. Tonis

This paper compares various mechanisms of resource curse leading to a potentially inefficient use of resources; it is demonstrated that each of these mechanisms is associated with market imperfections and can be "corrected" with appropriate government policies. Empirical evidence seems to suggest that resource abundant countries have on average lower budget deficits and inflation, and higher foreign exchange reserves. Besides, lower domestic fuel prices that are typical for resource rich countries have a positive effect on long-term growth even though they are associated with losses resulting from higher energy consumption. On top of that resource abundance allows to reduce income inequalities. So, on the one hand, resource wealth turns out to be conducive to growth, especially in countries with strong institutions. However, on the other hand, resource abundance leads to corruption of institutions and to overvalued real exchange rates. On balance, there is no solid evidence that resource abundant countries grow more slowly than the others, but there is evidence that they grow more slowly than could have grown with the right policies and institutions.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuliya Samovich

The manual is devoted to making individual complaints to the European Court of human rights: peculiarities of realization of the right to appeal, conditions of admissibility and the judicial procedure of the European Court of Human Rights. The author analyses some “autonomous concepts” used in the court's case law and touches upon the possibility of limiting the right to judicial protection. The article deals with the formation and development of the individual's rights to international judicial protection, as well as the protection of human rights in universal quasi-judicial international bodies and regional judicial institutions of the European Union and the Organization of American States. This publication includes a material containing an analysis of recent changes in the legal regulation of the Institute of individual complaints. The manual is recommended for students of educational organizations of higher education, studying in the areas of bachelor's and master's degree “Jurisprudence”.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marine Vekua

The main goal of this research is to determine whether the journalism education of the leading media schools inGeorgia is adequate to modern media market’s demands and challenges. The right answer to this main questionwas found after analyzing Georgian media market’s demands, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, differentaspects of journalism education in Georgia: the historical background, development trends, evaluation ofeducational programs and curricula designs, reflection of international standards in teaching methods, studyingand working conditions.


Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Sophie Till

Three years ago Sophie Till started working with pianist Edna Golandsky, the leading exponent of the Taubman Piano Technique, an internationally acclaimed approach that is well known to pianists, on the one hand, for allowing pianists to attain a phenomenal level of virtuosity and on the other, for solving very serious piano-related injuries. Till, a violinist, quickly realized that here was a unique technical approach that could not only identify and itemize the minute movements that underlie a virtuoso technique but could show how these movements interact and go into music making at the highest level. Furthermore, through the work of the Golandsky Institute, she saw a pedagogical approach that had been developed to a remarkable depth and level of clarity. It was an approach that had the power to communicate in a way she had never seen before, despite her own first class violin training from the earliest age. While the geography and “look” on the violin are different from the piano, the laws governing coordinate motion specifically in playing the instrument are the same for pianists and violinists. As a result of Till’s work translating the technique for violin, a new pedagogical approach for violinists of all ages is emerging; the Taubman/Golandsky Approach to the Violin. In reflecting on these new developments, Edna Golandsky wrote, “I have been working with the Taubman Approach for more than 30 years and have worked regularly with other instrumentalists. However, Sophie Till was the first violinist who asked me to teach her with the same depth that I do with pianists. With her conceptual and intellectual agility as well as complete dedication to helping others, she has been the perfect partner to translate this body of knowledge for violinists. Through this collaboration, Sophie is helping develop a new ‘language’ for violinist that will prevent future problems, solve present ones and start beginners on the right road to becoming the best they can be. The implications of this new work for violinists are enormous.”


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