WRITTEN BY Clarissa Spada
This essay aims to analyse the new 2017 Italian law established for the improvement of both the asylum procedures and the contrast of illegal migration in a context in which Europe is required to improve procedures` efficiency without undermining the rights of people in need of protection.
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WRITTEN BY David M. Malone United Nations University
When the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted, Goal 16 was seen as truly transformative, formally linking, for the first time at the United Nations, development, peace, justice, and good governance. Some of its more ambitious targets include significantly reducing all forms of violence, ending abuse and violence against children, promoting the rule of law, reducing illicit financial flows and corruption, and developing accountable and transparent institutions.
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WRITTEN BY Andrés Felipe Morales Arias
Since it was first addressed as the right to know the fate of missing and dead persons under international humanitarian law,(1) the idea of a ‘right to truth’ has gradually expanded into other fields of law such as human rights law and international criminal law.(2)
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WRITTEN BY Christiaens, E., Hardyns, W., Pauwels, L & Klima, N.
A new trend in prevention policies is the focus on resilience, which particularly for youngsters is said to lower their susceptibility to criminal behaviour and radicalization. To that end, the “BOUNCE programme” aims to strengthen youngsters’ resilience by means of a 10-session group intervention. Over the past year, ten European pilot cities have been introduced to the BOUNCE resilience tools and are now left to implement the youth training on their own. The case of BOUNCE confirms the need for integrated implementation strategies to obtain effective early prevention of youth delinquency.
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WRITTEN BY Bradley Alan Fuller, J.D.
Audi Alteram Partem, the Latin phrase meaning, “the other side shall be heard as well,” enshrined on the walls in City Hall of The Hague.
A fundamental principle of any fair and civilized criminal justice system is that the accused be given the opportunity to meaningfully respond to and attack the allegations against them. This idea of equality to both sides of a legal matter before a tribunal, dates back at least as far as the ancient Greeks, and can also be found in traditional Islamic law texts.(1) Though this basic due process guarantee of the right to mount a defense has been generally accepted throughout the civilized world in domestic settings for centuries, defeated war criminals have only recently begun to enjoy such protections on the international stage. Though there have been several ad hoc military tribunals throughout world history such as the Leipzig War Crimes Trials following the First World War, those tribunals are largely regarded as having been insufficient or even farcical.(2)
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WRITTEN BY Golriz Moezzi
Is there a unique perspective to transitional justice?
Ordinary justice and transitional justice are significantly and distinctively different. As many studies will show, the qualities of ordinary justice assume there is in place a reasonable democratic system. This paper will identify the features of ordinary justice compared to transitional justice. The focus will be on: definitional perspective, timing arguments, and limitations of transitional justice both substantive and procedural. The general hypothesis is: a level of uncertainty makes transitional justice unique because it requires a fresh perspective every time. There is indeed something unique that arises from uncertainty.
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Issue 29/2005 of German magazine Der Spiegel announced that, according to German Police findings, terrorist Mohammed Atta possibly tried to finance the attacks of 11 September 2001 through illegal art trade. According to the publication, Atta had offered antiques to a Professor of the University of Göttingen, who suspected the origin of the artwork and declined. Despite the world’s astonishment at such revelation, Al Qaeda was not the first terrorist organization to use the art and antiques market to finance their criminal operations, a market that only in 2016, handled an officially reported amount of 45 billion dollars, according to the TEFAF Report 2017 on the global art market.
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WRITTEN BY Davide Brunone
According to Greek mythology, chimeras were monstrous hybrid creatures made up of the parts of different animals, usually a lion, a goat and a snake. These monsters were regarded as nature’s abortions and their appearance was considered an omen for disaster.
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WRITTEN BY Francesco Piobbichi
See Lampedusa and live
If I had not lived in Lampedusa, I would have never found the inner resilience to narrate these stories of migration through drawings. Moreover, at the age of 40-something, I would have never depicted the emotions making me able to describe these last four years spent on working along this European-Mediterranean border.
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