Suchergebnisse

Four articles.

Examines the status of women in Greek society; education, participation in the labor force, decreasing fertility rates, stereotypes, divorce, and other issues.

Examines status and cultural revival of ethnic and national minorities in Poland since 1989; covers the Ukrainian, Belarussian, Lithuanian, Roma, Jewish, Slovak, and Czech minorities.

The article discusses how corporations in the U.S., mostly economic, have managed over the last 200 years to claim human rights elaborated in the U.S. Constitution for themselves (e. g. the right due process of law, or free political speech). A multitude of court rulings offer a wealth of empirical material. In the United States an ever-growing critical movement has attempted to criticize and scandalize such corporate rights. An analysis derived from sociology and Political Economy can show that gaining such corporate rights, can be referred to as an increasing privatization of political power and as a historical institutionalization of the -- nowadays globally applicable -- corporate form. Adapted from the source document.

For decades, Roma from various European countries have been trying to build up European Roma organisations. The most important are the International Roma Union & the Roma national Congress. This idea has received new impetus since the Council of Europe in 2004 established an umbrella organisation called the European Roma & Traveller Forum. However, all Roma organisations operating at the international level are struggling with the problem of internal schisms as well as with the only partly justified criticisms that they have become estranged from the people they are supposed to represent. Adapted from the source document.

Suggests establishing an international framework for the treatment of minorities which would guarantee equal rights and freedom under the laws of a given country as well as the right to maintain their own language and culture, the right of regional autonomy, and the right to representation in national life.