Essays about: "Private Property and the State"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 36 essays containing the words Private Property and the State.
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1. The Chilean Old-Age Pension System in Light of International Human Rights Law and the Inter-American Jurisprudence on the Right to Social Security
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : In the early 1980s, during the darkest years of Pinochet’s dictatorship, an apparently innocuous but radical decision was made: to implement an old-age pension system based on individual accounts mandatorily administered by private for-profit entities called ‘pension fund administrators’ (‘AFPs’, by its acronym in Castilian), in which the workers’ social security regarding old-age pensions was in practice totally dependent on their individual saving capacity during their working life. This was a completely novel system at that time, even at the international level, and part of a package of reforms allegedly directed to refound and modernise the country, deeply transforming the functions of the State and the role of the private sector, and causing a multiplicity of consequences felt until today in all possible areas of society and where, of course, human rights are no exception. READ MORE
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2. Indigenous Peoples' Right to Land and Natural Resources When Companies Act In Their Traditional Territory: An Enquire of International Human Rights Systems with a Focus on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the African Regional System of Human Rights
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : This thesis approaches how International Human Rights Law is addressing the protection of indigenous peoples’ right to land when States give concessions for companies to act inside indigenous traditional territory. Cases of harmful conducts committed by companies in indigenous territory are continuously happening around the world. READ MORE
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3. Privata skogsägares preferenser och betalningsvilja vid val av maskinstorlek i gallring
University essay from SLU/Department of Forest Biomaterials and Technology (from 131204)Abstract : Hälften av Sveriges skogsmark ägs av privata skogsägare och resterande halvan fördelas mellan staten, aktiebolag och övriga privata ägare. När dessa skogsägare brukar sin skog är gallring en vanlig skötselåtgärd för att under en omloppstid öka tillväxten i ett givet bestånd. READ MORE
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4. Evaluation of state forest institutions in Romania based on the 3L model
University essay from SLU/Southern Swedish Forest Research CentreAbstract : Romanian forests account 27.5% of total area and has quite even shares of ownership, 48.5 % state forests and 51.5% private forests. READ MORE
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5. Minority Rights, to be recognised by the Legislator or the Supreme Court? - Did the Swedish Supreme Court (Högsta domstolen) adopt an activist or restrained position, concerning the right to property of the Sami people, in the Taxed Mountain Case (Skattefjällsmålet) and what were the effects of the chosen approach?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : In the 1970s a group of Sami people sued the Swedish State claiming a better right to a geographic area referred to as the Taxed Mountain (Skattefjällen). The Sami people are recognised as an indigenous people, and a minority group, by the Swedish State. READ MORE
