Essays about: "Reformation"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 60 essays containing the word Reformation.
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11. 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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12. Constructing sexual danger in the Spanish media: A mixed-method analysis of a high-profile, non-intimate femicide case in El País
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : From January 2016 until August 2021, at least 436 women or girls have been deliberately murdered in Spain by men. Non-intimate femicide (and, particularly, murder committed by complete strangers to the victim, to which this study refers as “stranger femicide”) has historically been, and still is, the most covered type of femicide in the media. READ MORE
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13. Emissions Trading for Waste Incineration Plants with Energy Recovery in Sweden
University essay from Linköpings universitet/EnergisystemAbstract : Emission trading is a tool for achieving the European commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The aim is to create an effective European emissions trading market with the least possible negative impact on economic development and employment within the Union. READ MORE
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14. Addressing Aggressive Tax Planning through Unitary Tax or Self-Regulation- A Study on the Possible Need for an International Tax Reform
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : Domestic and international regulations aiming to facilitate international trade and investment today enable multinational corporations (MNCs) to operate transnationally through the use of branches or subsidiary companies. Within the field of corporate taxation, the lack of a global and universal tax system regulating international tax matters however allows MNCs to exploit gaps and loopholes within such regulations to lower or even eradicate their tax burden. READ MORE
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15. Corrosion studies on multicomponent TiZrNbTa thin films
University essay from Uppsala universitet/StrukturkemiAbstract : The goal of this work was to evaluate the electrochemical properties of TiZrNbTa thin films deposited by magnetron sputtering using an industrial physical vapor deposition system. Samples were deposited on both Si(001) and 316L stainless steel. READ MORE
