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President Mirziyoyev slates security police for magnifying trivial matters into national threats, vows to end repression.
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Aliev calls poll six months early, leading to speculation about his motives.
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How a ratification debate, a translation misunderstanding, and social prejudices set the country on fire.
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The scientific article is devoted to historical analysis of criminal liability for the employment of a juvenile child for begging. Investigated the stages of legislation on liability for the employment of a juvenile child for begging. To be made the conclusion about the need for further improvement of the current Criminal Code of Ukraine. It was established that one of the priorities of the state in recent years has become a criminal-legal protection of children in the development of juvenile justice. Criminal legislation should also protect the child from criminal encroachments on its benefits guaranteed by law the violation of rights. This is not to ignore the historical experience domestic legislative activity in this area. Historical analysis of criminal liability for the use of a minor child for begging made it possible to detect obvious inconsistency in the rule-making, indicating the need for a constitutional responsibility of the government for solutions that reduce the credibility of public institutions and hinder the development of Ukraine as a legal state.
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Prezentowane opracowanie adresowane jest do prawników ukraińskich, uczestników konferencji dotyczącej problemów reformy systemu prawnego Republiki Ukrainy, zaś podstawowym zadaniem – zaprezentowanie naczelnej zasady ustrojowej, to jest zasady prawa do sądu w takim ujęciu, w jakim została przedstawiona w wybranych aktach międzynarodowych i dokonanie porównania z rozwiązaniami ustrojowymi, przyjętymi w systemie prawa polskiego, co ułatwi jej odczytywanie na gruncie ukraińskiego systemu prawnego. Moim zdaniem ma to szczególne znaczenie dla partnerów ukraińskich, albowiem od 1997 roku Ukraina jest w Radzie Europy, a od dnia 23 lutego 2006 roku zobowiązała się do „wykonywania decyzji i stosowania praktyki Europejskiego Trybunału Praw Człowieka.
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Indonesia has become one of the most internationally “compelling” entities nowadays. Its economic development, large and mobile society, political reforms as well as the impressive combination of Islam and democracy attract world’s attention. Indonesia has every right to be regarded as one of the regional powers, or even the emerging leader in Southeast Asia. The breakthrough came along with the overthrow of president Suharto in 1998. The new authorities started to implement variety of reforms in the entire country that are still in process. The transposition of Indonesia’s role and image in the world created also a need for adopting a new, completely fresh approach towards its foreign policy. This paper focuses on foreign policy of Indonesia since 1998 till current days. It examines its main goals and relations with its neighbors, world’s great powers, as well as the involvement of Indonesia within the international organizations. Indonesia is without a doubt primus inter pares in the Association of Southeast Asia Nations and in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. Indonesia recognizes its participation within ASEAN as the cornerstone of national foreign policy. Since ASEAN’s establishment in 1967, Indonesia has lead that organization from behind. Nowadays, Indonesia tries to overhaul the whole ASEAN system by pushing for the promotion of democracy and human rights as one of the key agendas for the organization. Within last few years, there was also a deeper Indonesian involvement in G20. Indonesian experience of financial crisis in late 90s and years of economic recession during New Order helps to understand the challenges in today’s world. Sharing that experience within G20, Indonesia initiated different action related to safeguard the international financial institutions and world banking system. The last years brought also a great change in the foreign policy of Indonesia in terms of its relations with the People’s Republic of China and the United States of America. China is no longer regarded as a threat for Indonesia’s elites, but as a prospective economic partner. The diplomatic relations with the United States have been strengthened in recent years as well. Last but not least, the paper focuses on the relations of Indonesia with its closest neighbors. After years of diplomatic discourse and antagonism with the government in Kula Lumpur, Singapore, or Canberra, Indonesia initiates a new phase of cooperation. The years of Konfrontasi are over and Indonesian government opened a new chapter and enjoys the cooperation with Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. Indonesia may be, without a doubt, considered as both regional and middle power, as well as the emerging economic power.
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The aim of this paper is to present the concept of The end of History by F. Fukuyama and compare it with the philosophical concepts of I. Kant. The text is describing the main elements of liberal democracy promoted by Fukuyama comparing them to philosophical proposals of Kant. Both authors paid attention to the importance of human rights in international relations. Both also expressed their hope for the existence of global peace. The factor that differs them is the attitude towards the democracy
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Journalists push back against proposed amendments that would complicate the work of online reporters and impose restrictions on social media users.
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In July 1995, the Republika Srpska Army committed genocide against the Srebrenica Bosniaks. Approximately 8,000 Bosniaks were killed at a time when Srebrenica had been proclaimed a protected zone.Namely, on 16 April 1993, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 819, which declared that ―all parties and others should consider Srebrenica and its surroundings as the protected zone that must not be under armed attack or any other hostile act‖. The first UNPROFOR soldiers arrived in Srebrenica on 18 April 1993.This was a reaction to the statement by the Serbian authorities of 13 April 1993 to the UNHCR representatives that if the Bosniaks do not surrender and agree to evacuate, they will attack the city within two days.The attack did not occur, but in the period from April 1993 to July 1995, the Republika Srpska Armed Forces’ pretension to occupy that territory, expel and liquidate the Bosniaks became more and more obvious. In the beginning of 1995 the smaller convoys with the stock were reaching the enclave. In March 1995, RadovanKaradžić, the president of the Republika Srpska, issued a directive known as Directive 7 in which he stated that in Srebrenica should be: ―Daily conditions of total uncertainty created, unbearable and unpredictability of further survival and the lives of villagers in daily planning and contemplated combat activities ...‖ The United Nations response is absent.The former UN envoy for Yugoslavia, Yasushi Akashi, repeatedly appealed to the Security Council on the failure safe areas concept, and requested that this be changed, but the Council never responded. The UN's inaction encouraged Karadžić's Serbs in the period from 6th-13th July 1995 to commit genocide. The International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled the genocide in 2007.
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In the current democratic countries the norm is to respect religious freedom and main rights according to the European Convention of Human Rights. Nevertheless, the situation of the different religious communities is different in the individual countries and depends on the following factors: historical conditions and experiences, political conditions, the religious situation and so on. After the Second World War, as a result of the tragic experiences with totalitarian systems, which sought to deprive the Church of its freedom and autonomy in order to impose it practically and ideologically, the transition from the liberal-bourgeois state to the social constitutional state was made on the basis of the common Personalism in which liberal, socialist, communist and Christian traditions have come together. Only in the basic laws of the European states does the registration about the cooperation between the state and the church appear, about their autonomy and competences. The spread of awareness of human rights has also contributed to the relaxation of church rights restrictions. But some states quite openly proclaim their secularism, which in practice means the removal of religious values from public life.
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Zakon o strancima BiH Dom naroda Parlamentarne skupštine BiH usvojio je u novembru 2015. godine. Ovaj je zakon donesen zbog potrebe da se dotadašnji Zakon o kretanju i boravku stranaca i azilu uskladi sa pravnim nasljeđem EU, odnosno direktivama i uredbama Europske unije koje regulišu ovu oblast, ali i potrebe da se razdvoji regulacija materije koja se odnosi na azil i pružanje međunarodne pravne zaštite od pitanja kretanja i boravka stranaca u BiH. Zakon o azilu BiH pripremljen je i u parlamentarnu proceduru upućen u isto vrijeme kada i Zakon o strancima, a usvojen je u februaru 2016. godine. Usvajanjem ova dva zakona ova su pitanja adekvatnije regulisana. Zakon o strancima BiH sveobuhvatni je zakon kojim su regulisana pitanja migracionih tokova u BiH, i, između ostalog, postupak ulaska stranaca u BiH, uključujući i vizni i bezvizni režim, izdavanje putnih isprava za strance, boravak stranaca i njihovo udaljenje iz BiH, prava i obaveze koje imaju, mogućnost rada i školovanja u BiH. Sam Zakon usvojen je u vrlo kratkom roku uz malo rasprave u komisijama i domovima Parlamentarne skupštine BiH, te uz minimalan broj uloženih i usvojenih amandmana. Sam Zakon ima 146 članova i 9 poglavlja...
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The Council of Ministers BiH adopted the Framework strategy for the implementation of the Istanbul Convention on the Prevention and Fight against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence in BiH, for the period 2015-2018 in July 2015. Bosnia and Herzegovina was one of the first countries in Europe to have passed a policy document for the implementation of the Convention, which obligates the state to combat violence against women and domestic violence. The Gender Equality Agency BiH spearheaded the process and showed strong strategic leadership in public policy development and advancing gender equality.
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The existing legal provisions - the gender quota for at least 40% of the less represented gender on the electoral lists (Article 4.19, Electoral Law BiH), the general and sanction-free provision on equal participation of women and men in the Government (Article 20 Gender Equality Law) have garnered progress, but they do not have the potential to ensure a significant increase in the number of elected women. For this reason alternative measures are necessary. In order to achieve equal participation of women and men at least two changes are needed. The first change refers to the Electoral Law BiH and it would introduce a gender quota of 50% (the so-called zipper system)3 as well as additional measures to give mandates to members of the less-represented gender (e.g. throughtheawardofmandates fromthecompensatoryelectoral lists). The second change addresses amendments oflaws that regulate the election of cantonal and entity governments and the Council of Ministers BiH. These laws need to be harmonized with Article 20 of the gender Equality Law BiH and they need to include a provision according to which the future governments could not be confirmed unless the minimum representation of 40% of both men and women is fulfilled.
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BiH is a country of origin, destination and transit for women, children and men who are victims of human trafficking. The poor socio-economic situation helps proliferation of trafficking-related crimes, but the Report on Human Trafficking in 2015 by the US also cites corruption within police structures as a contributing factor.
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The review of: Zbigniew Lasocik, Zabójca zawodowy i na zlecenie, Kantor Wydawniczy ZAKAMYCZE, Kraków 2003, ss. 469.
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Praca, będąca powinnością, jest równocześnie źródłem uprawnień człowieka pracującego. Kościół głosi i potwierdza prawa ludzi pracy, które wynikają z godności człowieka. W dokumentach społecznych Kościoła wyrażane jest przekonanie, że między prawami człowieka i Ewangelią zachodzi ścisły związek (KDK 41). Wyraził to Synod Biskupów w Rzymie (1974) w dokumencie Prawa człowieka i pojednanie, stwierdzając: „Jeśli słuszną sprawą jest, że prawdy dotyczące godności człowieka i jego prawa stanowią wspólne dobro wszystkich ludzi, to dla nas ich najpełniejszy wyraz znajdzie się w Ewangelii. To również z Ewangelii czerpiemy motyw najbardziej naglący do zaangażowania się w obronę i w rozwój człowieka”. Uprawnienia ludzi pracy należy jednak widzieć nie w oderwaniu od innych praw człowieka, ale w kontekście ogółu praw przysługujących człowiekowi (LE 16), z których wiele zostało proklamowanych w dokumentach wewnątrzpaństwowych i międzynarodowych.
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The world outlook and general theoretical aspects of the problem of priority directions determination of social service system functioning and development in rural territorial communities are investigated in the article within the framework of modern social political theory as well as humanitarian and philosophical understanding of human essence and human rights.
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The review of: Tadeusz Biesaga SDB, Spór o normę moralności, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Papieskiej Akademii Teologicznej, Kraków 1998, ss. 327.
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