Rather than seeing themselves as the arbiters of divine precepts, Supreme Court justices after World War II generally understood that constitutional jurisprudence must respond to the realities of the day. Yet today's conservatives have seized on the legacy of one of the few justices who did not.
considers the complicated legacy of a progressive jurist whom conservatives now champion.
In October 2022, Chileans elected a far-left constitutional convention which produced a text so bizarrely radical that nearly two-thirds of voters rejected it. Now Chileans have elected a new Constitutional Council and put a far-right party in the driver’s seat.
blames Chilean President Gabriel Boric for the rapid rise of the authoritarian populist José Antonio Kast.
6月18日,联合国政府间人权委员会采取了一项重要措施,这项措施旨在消除免于恐惧和免于匮乏两者之间人为造成的分歧。从人权体系建立伊始,这样的分歧就一直作为一种无法摆脱的特点存在于人权体系当中。该委员会核准了《1966年国际经济、社会和文化权利公约的任择议定书》,从而建立起一项重要机制,使得通常情况下因贫困、歧视和忽略所导致的权力滥用暴露在光天化日之下,而在此之前,受害者们常常不得不在沉默和无助中忍受这样的痛苦。
现在,就等着联合国大会最终核准该《议定书》了。如果获得通过,这份议定书可以真正发挥重要作用,让那些因为生活在社会边缘而倍受痛苦,丧失了应有的经济、社会和文化权利,无法获得足够营养、医疗、住房和教育的人们的生活发生翻天覆地的变化。
早在60年前,《世界人权宣言》就意识到,要想过一种有尊严的生活,免于匮乏和免于恐惧都是不可或缺的前提。《宣言》明确指出,贫困和歧视排斥与资源和机会的分配不均等之间存在着直接的联系。《宣言》的制定者们深知,在社会和文化方面蒙受耻辱的人们无法充分参与公共生活,也同样无法影响政策,从而获得公正的待遇。
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