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Information blackout at the Council of Europe?
Nature & Environment

Information blackout at the Council of Europe?

...law. Whilst best known for the European Convention on Human Rights, it has actually concluded hundreds of binding legal Conventions and carried out scores of cooperative programmes in areas as diverse as minority rights, children’s rights, the preservation of environmental and cultural heritage, media policy, data protection and the fight against cybercrime. Such broad...
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Will Brexit force British retirees to return from Spain?
Money & Business

Will Brexit force British retirees to return from Spain?

...law scholars Tamara Hervey at the University of Sheffield and Joaquin Cayon-De Las Cuevas at the University of Cantabria. Another concern is pensions and whether annual increases in the state pension will continue to be paid after Brexit. These increments are not paid to those living outside of the EU in countries like Canada and Australia, whose state pension is frozen...
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Why Brexit would be bad for employment rights
Society, Politics & Law

Why Brexit would be bad for employment rights

...laws to prevent employers discriminating against workers who are disabled or who have particular religious beliefs, and no right for employees to take time off work to look after a sick child. This was the UK before the New Labour government was elected in 1997. Since then a substantial number of employment rights have been introduced – most of which have their roots in...
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What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?
Nature & Environment

What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?

...laws from being made in the first place. For example, Naomi Klein14 (2014) shows the influence of fossil fuels and automotive industries on the efforts of US lawmakers to tackle climate change. [Woman protesting with sign saying 'Act now or Swim later'] What can be done? It’s clear that corruption presents a threat to the global effort to stave off climate disaster, but...
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“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language
Languages

“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language

...Laws, through to the 1737 Administration of Justice (Language) Act (Ireland). The language was outlawed, and speakers and communities, school children and those from native Gaeltacht regions, oppressed, marginalised and often persecuted. The new northern state was yet another step in the wrong direction, with successive Governments banning Irish from education and almost...
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Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...law are necessarily the most harmful types of behaviour and also questions the assumption that harms are limited to the actions of individuals. It encourages you to think more broadly about harm than the traditional focus on crime in both the academic subject of criminology and in culture more generally, which can obscure some of the most problematic and harmful aspects...
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Scottish nurses striking out
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish nurses striking out

...Scot's nurses 'sick of living on poverty line' gear up for strike action. The second big change is that for the first time, following a change to their constitution in 1995 to allow strike action (which their rules had not allowed previously), the RCN are balloting for a strike meaning that all NHS nurses in trade unions are being asked to take action. The law regarding...
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True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum

...Law is not affected. For a few commercial and industrial purposes there is need for Community Law. But our criminal law, trial by jury, presumption of innocence remain unaltered. So do our civil rights. See a pdf of the Yes leaflet Embed from Getty Images We know how Basil Fawlty voted According, at least, to The Germans episode of Fawlty Towers: May I say how pleased we...
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