CRIMINAL LAW FUNCTIONALIZATION OF KIDNEY TRAFFICKING FOR TRANSPLANT PURPOSES

Kidney transplant is a complete therapy for people with terminal renal failure. The number of cases of terminal renal failure was not proportional to the available donors. Due to the lack of kidney donors, some people take advantage of this opportunity by commercializing their kidneys. In Indonesia's laws and regulations, it is clear that there is a prohibition on the trafficking of organs and or tissues for transplant purposes. Until now, cases of buying and selling of body organs or tissues have never reached the Court. Therefore, it is necessary to formulate a formulation regulating legal protection for all parties concerned. This article aims to analyze the criminal law's functionalization against the trafficking of kidneys for transplant purposes. The research was carried out with a normative juridical approach in a formulated policy structure, namely reviewing and analyzing regulations both in the Criminal Code including the draft criminal law 2005 as an ius constituendum and outside the Criminal Code, specifically regarding the regulation of trade in organs or tissues for transplant purposes. The result of this research is the functionalization of criminal law in the implementation of kidney trade to benefit transplants. Criminal law enforcement is to make criminal law functioned by legally processing the facts of organ trafficking in the field. This repressive action is intended to create a deterrent effect and is a long-term preventive measure so that it is hoped that there will be no more cases of trafficking in organs in the future. It is necessary to understand that the threat of punishment must remain an ultimum remedium, and is enforced if social control is not yet effective.

The Politics of Labour Migration and Demographic Change in Contemporary Japan

<p>Japan currently faces a demographic crisis resulting from declines in fertility rates and rapid expansion of Japan’s elderly population. Public pensions will come under immense strain as shrinking numbers of working age people are forced to support ever more retirees. At the same time, declines in fertility and falling population figures threaten Japan’s future economic growth and vitality. This thesis investigates the relationship between the demographic crisis and Japan’s strict immigration policies. Policymakers continue to refuse to allow migration to Japan in order to offset declines in Japan’s own working age population. The thesis aims to explain why Japan remains so reluctant to accept migrant workers from abroad, even though this may offer a solution to the problems of demographic decline and depopulation. I contend that conventional analyses of Japan’s immigration policies do not provide adequate explanations for why Japan continues to exclude foreign labourers. Rather, I argue that Japan’s attitude must be understood in connection with a binary, “us-and-them” mindset toward foreign countries and communities collectively that exists in Japan’s governing and bureaucratic institutions. This mindset is evident in Japan’s practical labour policy implementation, and has important cultural and political implications for Japan’s public discourses of national identity and interests. The thesis argues that Japan remains unwilling to accept migrant labourers because of an immigration policy structure that resolutely adheres to an outdated view of migrants as mere units of labour. This overlooks changed global models of migration that prioritise human rights, proactive social integration and strategic selection of migrants. While Japan could ease the effects of depopulation and demographic decline by revising core policy assumptions in order to effectively integrate migrants into the dwindling national workforce, it has so far failed to engage with newer models of migration. My analysis locates Japan’s crisis within a wider context of global demographic change and transnational population movement in the twenty-first century.</p>

The Politics of Labour Migration and Demographic Change in Contemporary Japan

<p>Japan currently faces a demographic crisis resulting from declines in fertility rates and rapid expansion of Japan’s elderly population. Public pensions will come under immense strain as shrinking numbers of working age people are forced to support ever more retirees. At the same time, declines in fertility and falling population figures threaten Japan’s future economic growth and vitality. This thesis investigates the relationship between the demographic crisis and Japan’s strict immigration policies. Policymakers continue to refuse to allow migration to Japan in order to offset declines in Japan’s own working age population. The thesis aims to explain why Japan remains so reluctant to accept migrant workers from abroad, even though this may offer a solution to the problems of demographic decline and depopulation. I contend that conventional analyses of Japan’s immigration policies do not provide adequate explanations for why Japan continues to exclude foreign labourers. Rather, I argue that Japan’s attitude must be understood in connection with a binary, “us-and-them” mindset toward foreign countries and communities collectively that exists in Japan’s governing and bureaucratic institutions. This mindset is evident in Japan’s practical labour policy implementation, and has important cultural and political implications for Japan’s public discourses of national identity and interests. The thesis argues that Japan remains unwilling to accept migrant labourers because of an immigration policy structure that resolutely adheres to an outdated view of migrants as mere units of labour. This overlooks changed global models of migration that prioritise human rights, proactive social integration and strategic selection of migrants. While Japan could ease the effects of depopulation and demographic decline by revising core policy assumptions in order to effectively integrate migrants into the dwindling national workforce, it has so far failed to engage with newer models of migration. My analysis locates Japan’s crisis within a wider context of global demographic change and transnational population movement in the twenty-first century.</p>

Multiple Variable Social Distancing Model in Reducing COVID 19 Spreading: A Long Term Social Distancing Model in Developing Nations Like Bangladesh

Covid-19 pandemic requires strong and inclusive social distancing policies for the people. Governments around the world have taken policy steps and citizen were expected to behave accordingly. However, Countries like Bangladesh faced enormous difficulties and challenges to make people understand and obey them. There is variety of groups in the society among whom a few were respectful and some were negligent towards those social distancing policies. This study tried to find what makes them obey or disobey the prescribed pandemic behavior. This research found people over-confident, religiously blind, economically bound, poorly educated, doubtful to their government, impatient about the time frame of the lockdown and social distancing rules and so on. Additionally, sometimes government policies were proved to be incompatible with the rising situation.&nbsp; &nbsp;Primary hypothesis of this study is, ``willingness of social distancing is a dependent variable where over-confidence, education, poverty, religion, public trusts are independent variables. Taking general policies like other natural disaster or calamities may not be as effective as it was before.&rsquo;&rsquo; This pandemic is an event which needs an in-depth research, wider policy analysis and firm implementation. Here is a suggestion called `multiple variable social distancing model&#39; which will study about the variables first and guide to a wider policy structure afterwards.

Engaging citizens living in vulnerable circumstances in research: a narrative review using a systematic search

Although public engagement in research is increasingly popular, the involvement of citizens living in vulnerable circumstances is rarely realized. This narrative review aims to describe and critically analyse concerns and corresponding strategies, tools, and methods that could support the inclusion of these citizens in health research. The 40 studies that are included were thematically analysed using the socioecological model. Concerns originate most often on the intrapersonal level of the socioecological model, but concerns were also identified at institutional, community, and policy levels. It is thought-provoking that there is a lack of attention for the research and policy structure in which engagement practices are designed, implemented and evaluated. More research is needed to explore how these cultures could be changed in a way that promotes rather than restrains the engagement of citizens living in vulnerable circumstances in research and policymaking.

Multilingualism for Global Solutions and a Better World

This article examines the significance of multilingualism in finding global solutions and creating a better world. Language learning and multilingualism in the individual are discussed. The role of multilingualism in effectively addressing complex global issues is described. The nature of language skills and cultural knowledge in the individual and within international organizations is analyzed in terms of both policy structure and crisis communication, including the COVID-19 global pandemic, along with a brief overview of multilingualism in international business organizations. The US foreign language deficit is briefly discussed. Perspectives on foreign language education for a better world are provided, as are possibilities for increasing multilingualism for a better world.

FOREIGN EXPERIENCE IN IMPROVING THE FINANCIAL LITERACY OF THE SOCIETY

The global upheavals of recent years have had a serious impact on the personal well-being of citizens. It becomes important for a person to effectively manage the family budget, which requires increasing the level of knowledge about finance, economics, investments, etc. The purpose of the report is to study foreign experience and Kazakhstan's experience in improving financial literacy. Practice shows that the formation of financial literacy, instilling culture and reasonable, rational behavior is necessary for society and the economy as a whole. It is possible to achieve such results by changing a person's consciousness. The younger generation has a huge potential in this regard. Currently, only some aspects of economic thinking are addressed in the works of teachers. The methodology of the article is based on the study of the works of foreign authors on the problems of the impact of crises of various etymologies and origins on the change in financial literacy, including certain elements: levels, factors, policy, structure. The result of the study was to identify the features of financial literacy systems in different countries. The analysis showed that financial literacy is considered a well-developed element in the general model of economic consciousness formation. However, at the present stage, the problem of financial literacy and economic awareness is not given due attention in countries, including developed ones. The article was prepared within the framework of the project of grant financing of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan "transformation of the economic consciousness of society in the conditions of the pathology of the economy (on the example of the Republic of Kazakhstan)" (IRN AR09259332).

The United Kingdom

This chapter looks at health politics and the comprehensive, tax-funded (largely free at point of service) health system in the United Kingdom and its four constituent countries, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. It traces the development of the UK’s healthcare system from an originally plural structure to a single National Health Service and then a devolved health policy structure. Though the NHS has continued to be highly popular and politically salient, the structure of care has substantially changed since 1948 as a result of reforms, with the growth of central government regulatory and managerial control, increasing competition in service delivery, more structured incentives for both GPs and hospitals, and a blurring of public and private boundaries in the provision of some outpatient care. As the chapter shows, the NHS’s devolution in 1999 has resulted in an increasingly diverging set of pathways across the four countries.