Achievement Of Social Justice Research Articles

Leveraging the potential of local government scrutiny: a case study of Southampton City Council scrutiny inquiry into its private rented sector

ABSTRACT Drawing on the authors’ experience of being involved as technical experts in Southampton City Council’s interrogation of the private rented sector, the paper considers the potential and the limitations of local government scrutiny inquires as a mechanism for assisting in the achievement of social justice. Scrutiny Inquiries are a relatively new democratic initiative introduced to provide a counterbalance to the greater concentration of powers in the council executive brought about by the Local Government Act 2000. The paper contributes to the literature on local government scrutiny, which is currently driven by public administration scholarship, by developing a holistic socio-legal analysis that seeks to embed a single case study within the wider complex legal, political and social environment. Although Scrutiny Inquiries empower back-bench local councillors and, to a lesser extent, promote community engagement in local government decision making, the paper identifies how austerity localism and reforms to the broader accountability environment have exposed gaps in the system of oversight of local government performance. Nonetheless we found there was political potential in the scrutiny inquiry process because it mobilised landlords and tenants in the city and provided a template for local action on private renting.

Empowerment of Women in Rural Populations Through a Social Responsibility Program

The aim of the research was to work on the empowerment of women in rural populations through a University Social Responsibility Program applied by a private university located in the northern part of Peru. A quantitative study of quasi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test was carried out in a single group, where 35 women participated between 18 and 65 years of age from the rural areas of the provinces of Chepen and Pacasmayo. The “T Student” statistical test was used and the results show that before the application of the USR program, 89% of women reached a medium level of empowerment and 11% a high level, and after the application of the USR Program the 43% achieved a medium level and 57% a high level. It was concluded that the empowerment of women improved with the application of the USR Program regarding the dimensions of participation, recklessness, independence, equality, social satisfaction and security, as well as with the management of computer tools; contributing to the improvement of the quality of life of women, the role of leadership and the achievement of social justice. It was also determined that the economic, political.
 
 Received: 21 August 2023 / Accepted: 20 October 2023 / Published: 5 November 2023

ОЗДОРОВЛЕНИЕ НАЦИИ: ПРОБЛЕМЫ И ПУТИ РЕШЕНИЯ

The issues of improving the health of the nation are considered as a set of actions of state authorities, society and business to protect public health as national wealth, to achieve the social well-being of the nation, its economic and social prosperity. The improvement of the nation is considered as a process of sustainable social and economic development (economic growth, poverty reduction, achievement of social justice), the acquisition of spiritual and moral health, the provision of guarantees for health protection and the achievement of passionate health and energy.

Towards Safeguarding Rural Communities’ Social and Economic Interests Through Communal Property Law

South Africa’s incessant Corporate Law Reforms do offer vast opportunities for rural communities to be actively involved in their own social and economic development. This article discusses the practicability of using a private company to promote and develop social and economic interests of rural communities. The fundamental question is: what constitute proper administration and socio-economic development in a rural context? It takes into account, the fact that the post-1994 democratic dispensation has made some effort to develop and strengthen the constitutional property rights, and the social and economic development of the previously disadvantaged rural communities. This encompassed the idea of, somewhat, relying on civil society institutions to manage and develop property rights of rural communities. Nonetheless, it should be noted that the success thereof is dubious since the development and operation of civil society institutions in these communities are constantly under threat and undermined by the tenacity of conflicts between administrators and the traditional leadership. It is asserted that there is an incessant need to resolve fundamental aspects relating to law, application of legal norms and achievement of social justice in a rural context.

Visiones utópicas y distópicas en las películas. La voz de la luna y Tiempo después

In the mid-1980s, the program of economic, political, and social restructuring —perestroika— and the new era of transparency and openness —glasnost— became the unintended catalyst for dismantling what had taken nearly three-quarters of a century to erect Communist states. While the reforms of perestroika and glasnost instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev, were not the sole causes of the dissolution of the U.S.S.R., the forces they unleashed destabilized an already weakening system and hastened its end. The political protests and the exodus of thousands of East Germans —Peaceful Revolution— fleeing to West Germany and Austria through the Hungarian border, contributed to the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9th, 1989, and it also triggered the German reunification in 1990. But since the end of the Cold War (1947-1991), many disappointments such as the worsening of socio-economic inequality and global instability, have followed the initial euphoria associated with the victory of the Western Bloc over the Eastern Bloc. The resurgence of the dichotomous relationship capitalism vs communism, and the political polarization driven by a sharp generational divide, are portrayed by the Italian-French co-production “The Voice of the Moon” (Dir. Federico Fellini, 1990), and the Spanish-Portuguese co-production “Some Time Later” (Dir. José Luis Cuerda, 2018). Both cinematic approximations embrace the ideological resistance towards the ongoing process of dehumanization and its pernicious effects on society. The achievement of social justice is deliberately postponed by the technocratic power elite, and by youth generations that are disengaged with its historical past, and enslaved by digital technologies.

Peacebuilding through the Lens of an Emancipatory Peacebuilding Paradigm

Critical and Emancipatory Theory (CET) of peacebuilding emerged as the sixth school of thought in Peace and Conflict Studies to critique the liberal and neoliberal approaches to peacebuilding. CET contends that liberal and neoliberal approaches to peacebuilding are discriminatory and biased, perpetrates the interest of Western elites, hinders the achievement of social justice, and considers the local as insignificant for peacebuilding. A call for the reformation of the liberal and neoliberal approaches necessitated the CET school of thought to outline certain principles and guidelines that could guide the practice of peace-building. Different methodologies, intervention strategies, principles and approaches that could guide praxis have therefore been advanced by scholars, researchers, and practitioners. This paper therefore examines and reflects on the multiplex methodologies in peacebuilding, the adoption of a multidisciplinary approach to understanding peace and peacebuilding, and the question of intervention in post-war peacebuilding, the principles that guide the implementation of peacebuilding from the lens of Critical and Emancipatory school of thought. This piece contend that CET approach may not be self-sufficient but would be the most appropriate way to decentralize the peacebuilding process and, as such, local or indigenous peacebuilding processes must be encouraged while acknowledging the salient role of the international community as well.

Ордолиберальные основы европейской экономической политики: мифы и реальность

Received 20.09.2020. The theme of the role and place of ordoliberal views in contemporary European economic policy has attracted attention of many researchers. While some scholars raise their concerns about the ongoing ordoliberalization of Europe and criticize the ordoliberal foundations of the European Union, the others call for the restoration of the ordoliberal principles in economic policy and argue about the necessity of ordoliberal reforms. This article is focused on this discussion and aims to assess the various arguments that use the ordoliberal issue to justify their positions. The analysis leads to the conclusion that this discussion very often faces misinterpretations of the main outlook of the ordoliberal theory, what can be explained by the dominant role of Germany in the European political scene, complexity of the relationship between ordoliberalism and the social market economy model, as well as by political, economic and ideological motives. For ordoliberals, the main task for the state was to create and maintain a competitive order that will allow market forces to distribute the wealth according to merits and will result in what can be called achievement of social justice. Meanwhile, it has become apparent that European policymakers have noticeably eschewed the competitive order proposals, and modern arrangements of the European economy might be better characterized in terms of regulatory capitalism and managed competition. Moreover, it can be argued that the raising concentration of economic power makes the appeals for the return to the ordoliberal principles very reasonable. The Freiburg school ideas continue to be a real alternative not only to the neoclassical mainstream, but also to the socialist wishes to control and direct economic and social processes.

Is Data Literacy a Catalyst of Social Justice? A Response from Nine Data Literacy Initiatives in Higher Education

Is education and more specifically, data literacy initiatives in Higher Education, an appropriate instrument to promote social justice in a context of datafication? Education is (and has been) at the center of the debate over the achievement of social justice as a desirable quality of the human society. However, which type of educational interventions should be promoted to deal with a complex, multi-layered, emergent problem, such is the case of datafication in society? Since the problem is heavily entrenched with a shifting socio-economic model (the so called “surveillance capitalism”) and the technological infrastructures connected to it, educational approaches could be diversified and even contradictory in their purpose of heralding the skills to live in a datafied society. This paper explores nine initiatives in Higher Education aimed at developing the literacies to deal with data in society. Their efforts are concentrated in promoting freedom of choice, awareness, and agency. Though their original intention is not promoting social justice, the analysis is carried out on the theoretical basis provided by Martha Nussbaum on social justice. The initiatives span educational activities with open data as open educational resources, to more formal data literacy activities such as educational engagement with students’ data and students’ personal and educational data. There emerges a still fragmented panorama in responding to the need of promoting social justice in a context of datafication. Given this fragmentation, the article provides a conceptual scheme to address further pedagogical reflection and practice with the aim of supporting social justice against datafication.

Liberalism and the State: Economic Growth and the Inequality

The article provides a critical comparison of two opposing views on the socio-economic development of Russia: radical liberal and socio-state ideology. The reason for the comparison was the report of Professor V. V. Kossov at a meeting (December 6, 2019) of the International Organizational Sciences Academy (IOSN) (“Barriers to Russia’s Economic Growth”), which stated that the main barrier to economic growth in Russia was government interference in economic activity and insufficient respect for private property in the population. The article shows on statistical data that, firstly, GDP growth should not be considered the main indicator of a country’s success, and secondly, it is the weakness of the state that actually hinders socio-economic development. It is shown that such problems as the elimination of poverty and inequality cannot be solved without the active participation of the state. The main thing is not economic growth and direct democracy, but the satisfaction of the interests of all social groups and the achievement of social justice. This position is supported by an appeal to the research results of many Western economists. Criticizing the liberal position, the authors of the article remain supporters of the free development of the individual and the society of equal opportunities.

Moral and Ethical Political Economy: to the 200th Anniversary of the S . Sismondi’s Book “New Principles Of Political Economy”

The relevance of the article is due to the significant date — the 200th anniversary of the publication in 1819 of the “New Principles of Political Economy” (“Nouveaux principes d’économie politique, ou de la richesse dans ses rapports avec la population”) by Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (also known as Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi), the founder of the economic romanticism. In this book, the purpose of this branch of human knowledge for the first time is interpreted not through the prism of the dominant ideas of economic liberalism at the turn of the XVIII–XIX centuries, but from the point of view of moral and ethical values. Here Sismondi examines and comprehends the alternative arguments formulated against the adherents of classical political economy (and, above all, the author of “On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation” published in 1817 by D. Ricardo) about the unattainability of automatic self-regulation of the market system and the expediency of its permanent regulation by the state within the framework of economic reforms that can provide a leading role in the economy of small business. Through historical and economic analysis, the author compared the evaluative judgments about the innovations contained in the book by S. Sismondi, related to the moral paradigm of political economy he justified, in the works of K. Marx, V. I. Lenin, S. Gide, S. Rist, M. Blaug and other researchers of economic science in the past and present. The author substantiates the generalizing conclusion that creativity of S. Sismondi, in the context of moral and ethical political-economic values, contrasted his own vision of scientific and practical problems — political economy and the implementation of the proposed reform project, the absolutisation of the principles of economic liberalism for the formation of a non-cyclical crisis-free socio-oriented economic system and the achievement of social justice in society.

بيان المستحق لزکاة الفطر

فهذا بحث عنوانه (بيان المستحق لزکاة الفطر). وموضوع البحث يتعلق بأحد أرکان الإسلام الخمسة، ألا وهو الزکاة؛ مما يجعله في أعلى درجات الأهمية، وقد شرع الإسلام الزکاة لتحقيق مقاصد عظيمة، من أعظمها تحقيق العدالة الاجتماعية، ولا يتحقق ذلک إلا بصرف الزکاة في مصارفها التي حددها الشارع الحکيم. وهذا البحث يتعلق بتعيين مصرف زکاة الفطر. وقد عنيت الجمعيات الخيرية والمؤسسات الحکومية والأهلية بتحديد ضوابط دقيقة للتعرف على المستحق لزکاة الفطر، وعلى النطاق الدولي عند غير المسلمين يلقى هذا الموضوع عناية کبيرة؛ لأن العالم کله متجه إلى معالجة ظاهرة الفقر. وقد حظي هذا الموضوع بدراسات متعددة من الفقهاء الشرعيين، وفقهاء القوانين الوضعية، غير أن البحث العلمي لا ينقطع أبدا، ولکل باحث أسلوبه وآراؤه، وهذا يثري النتاج العلمي من حيث الوفرة والتنوع. ومنهجي في هذا البحث يقوم على: استقصاء أقوال الفقهاء المتقدمين والمعاصرين من المذاهب الفقهية الأربعة، وغيرها من مذاهب أهل السنة، والأئمة المجتهدين،وعرض الأدلة ومناقشتها والترجيح،والاقتصار في مقدمات البحث على القدر الکافي للتأسيس للمسألة الرئيسة وعدم التوسع،وتوثيق النقولات من المصادر المعتبرة،وعزو الآيات، وتخريج الأحاديث. يتکون مخطط البحث من مقدمة، وأربعة مباحث.على النحو التالي: المبحث الأول: التعريف بالمصطلحات المتعلقة بالبحث، المبحث الثاني: مقدار الغنى المانع من أخذ الزکاة.،المبحث الثالث: تعيين المستحق لزکاة الفطر.،المبحث الرابع: حد الکفاية وعلاقته بالفقر واستحقاق الزکاة،ثم الخاتمة وتتضمن أهم النتائج منها: أن زکاة الفطر لا تصرف إلا للفقراء والمساکين، فتختص بهم دون باقي الأصناف الثمانية، والغاية العظمى فيها سد الحاجة إلى الطعام وهي على رأس قائمة احتياجات الإنسان،أن صرف زکاة الفطر في الاحتياجات الأخرى، وإلى باقي الأصناف، فإنه يؤدي إلى بقاء الحاجة إلى الطعام قائمة بين فقراء المسلمين، وهذا يلحق بهم أعظم الأضرار. This is a research entitled statement due to the zakat of the fitr. The subject of the research relates to one of the five pillars of Islam, zakat, which makes it the highest importance, and Islam has initiated zakat to achieve great purposes, the greatest of which is the achievement of social justice, and this can only be achieved by spending zakat in its banks identified by the wise street. This research is related to the appointment of a zakat of the fitr, government and private institutions have been concerned with precise controls to identify the beneficiaries of the zakat of the fitr, and on the international scale, this issue is receiving great attention, because the whole world is destined to address the phenomenon of poverty. This topic has received many studies from forensic jurists and jurists, but scientific research is never interrupted, and each researcher has his own style and opinions, and this enriches the scientific output in terms of abundance and diversity. The search plan consists of an introduction, and four investigations. The first topic: the definition of the terms related to research, the second topic: the amount of wealth preventing the taking of zakat. Surveying the statements of advanced and contemporary jurists from the four doctrines of jurisprudence, and other doctrines of the Sunnis, and the imams who are diligent, and presenting the evidence and discussing it and weighting, and limiting the introductions of the research sufficient lyceum to establish the main issue and not expand, and documenting the sayings from sources The regard, the attribution of the verses, and the graduation of hadiths. Keyword: The statement, zakat, the fitr, Islam

Impediments in promoting the functional status of African languages in higher education

This paper seeks to provide an analysis of obstacles that hinder progress in promoting the functional status of African languages in the South African higher education sector. African languages suffer marginalisation despite the existence of various empowering and restorative legislative provisions and policies. In this study, we argue that African languages have a central role in driving the transformation agenda in the South African higher education sector. In particular, marginalising African languages has disastrous implications for the achievement of social justice and cohesion, and the access to and success of indigenous African language-speaking students. A language management approach was adopted as a foregrounding theory for this paper. A language planning and policy framework was also employed as a complementary theory. The study is based on data collected through semi-structured interviews with academics in the college of humanities at a university in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The study revealed a number of challenges, ranging from negative linguistic ideologies, orthography, weak bilingualism, among other factors. In rising to these pertinent challenges, higher education institutions need therefore to consider language management strategies designed to address language problems, particularly in multilingual contexts.

Cutting and sewing brings Africa to the world: social justice for older people

ABSTRACT Older people are marginalized and are often subjected to discrimination and injustice. Yet they have a wealth of experience, wisdom, and skills that they can contribute. This story describes a project where a group of older women made tote bags for a symposium. The story unfolds from initial contact with the group to the bags being taken from Africa to the rest of the world. The reciprocal gratitude and the achievement of social justice, even on a small scale, proves that it is possible to make the world a better place.

Public Libraries in the Eyes of the LGBTIQ Community: The Case of Croatia

ABSTRACTThe achievement of social justice, which implies the development of collections and the design of services for different user groups, is an objective present in the mission of public libraries. Since the 1950s, Croatian public libraries have been continuously developing collections and services for different user communities. However, one user community has remained largely unrecognized – LGBTIQ people. Therefore, the aim of the research presented in this paper is to examine the importance of the role of public libraries in the life of the LGBTIQ community in the Republic of Croatia. With a sample of 259 respondents, information behaviors, attitudes and experiences of LGBTIQ people in relation to public libraries have been examined via an online survey. In particular, this study explored the extent to which members of public libraries differ from non-members. The obtained results should contribute to a better understanding of the information needs and behavior of members of sexual minorities and help bring this group of users closer to (Croatian) public libraries by ensuring that libraries more adequately respond to their needs.

Philosophical expertise as a factor of desubjectivation of the technogenic trend and achievement of social justice

The article substantiates the idea for the establishment of philosophical expertise as an actual theoretical and practical form for solving the fateful problems of our time. The direct source of the philosophical expertise is humanitarian expertise, brought to life by the use of modern biotechnology. A working mechanism of dialogue of civil society, the scientific community with the government and business has formed. New spheres of reality have been designated where it was possible and necessary to involve humanitarian, social, examination. All positive achievements in the field of social and humanitarian expertise are enriched and generalized within the framework of philosophical expertise. Philosophical examination should indicate the main thing. Social justice is an integrated category that has social, moral, legal, and political (including geopolitical) significance. Problems of social justice should be seen as the focus of negative trends in capitalistic globalization. The technogenic trend — an increasingly accelerating process of spreading and developing everything related to the technical, technological in its corresponding uncertainty and increasing impact on social life, on the fate of humanity in the form of catastrophes, self-destruction, post-out-human overcoming — even stronger conserves and enhances social injustice. Philosophical expertise can contribute to the solution of global problems, changing the negative vector of the functional relationship of technogenic and social processes to the positive; the return of man, society, and the national state, of the role of subjectivity, in solving the issues of its further existence effectively.

Green Architecture Sustainable on the House Building

Sustainable green development is the construction of homes and buildings that meet the needs of future generations, Sustainable development must pay attention to the use of the environment and environmental sustainability so that environmental quality is maintained. Environment that is not maintained, will cause the environmental carrying capacity is reduced, or even will be lost . Sustainable development implies the achievement of social justice from generation to generation. In view of other meanings, sustainable development as a national development that preserves the function and ability of ecosystems, Green architecture is a scheme process in lessening unfavourable environmental impact, increase comfort of man by increasing efficiency, and reduction of usage of resource, energy, usage of farm, and management of effective garbage in architecture level (Kwok Allison dalam Ming Kok, Cheah, 2008). This research result, that is found some element in houses building which are evidence green architecture. (1) vegetation optimalisation which form out of two yard at house buildings; (2) The many building side which diekspos and mass configuraton in site; (3) Design fasade building, possible to maximize natural atmosphere and illumination; (4) Terrace; core and teritis. Terrace amounting to multiple and teritis the in all heat Create building side to depend and don't coming into house; (5) Draught with crossed ventilation, presentation of from aperture in the form of door, window, roster and other aperture at part of building wall.

A Critical Investigation of the Relevance and Potential of IDPS as a Local Governance Instrument for Pursuing Social Justice in South Africa

Unlike the situation in the past, when local government’s role was limited to service delivery, local government is now constitutionally mandated to play an expanded developmental role. As a “co-responsible” sphere of government, local government is obliged to contribute towards realising the transformative constitutional mandate aimed at social justice. South African scholars and jurists share the view that social justice is primarily concerned with the eradication of poverty and extreme inequalities in access to basic services, and aims to ensure that poor people command sufficient material resources to facilitate their equal participation in socio-political life. In order to enable municipalities to fulfil their broad constitutional mandate, the system of integrated development planning (IDPs) came into effect in South Africa in 2000. Each municipality is obliged to design, adopt and implement an integrated development plan in order to achieve its expanded constitutional mandate. The IDP is considered to be the chief legally prescribed governance instrument for South African municipalities. The purpose of this article is to explore and critically investigate the relevance and potential of IDPs in contributing towards the achievement of social justice in South Africa. This article argues inter alia that the multitude of sectors that converge in an IDP makes it directly relevant and gives it enormous potential to contribute towards social justice because, depending on the context, municipalities could include and implement strategies that specifically respond to diverse areas of human need. In this regard, the legal and policy frameworks for IDPs provide a structured scheme that could be used by municipalities to prioritise and meet the basic needs of especially the poor. Despite its potential, it is argued that the ability of IDPs to respond to the basic needs of the poor is largely constrained by a series of implementation challenges partly attributed to the underlying legal and policy framework.

Editorial

The last issue of 2013 consists of fourteen contributions dealing with a potpourri of topics. The first two articles are both by the same author. In the first one, André Louw addresses the recent, sometimes deplorable conduct of intellectual property (or IP) lawyers, and in the second one, André Louw explores the proper role and meaning of good faith (or bona fides) in contract law, and the approach of our courts to the application of this principle in individual cases involving claims of unfairness and the like. The third article, by Rufaro Mavunga, critically assesses the Minimum Age Convention 138 of 1973 and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention 182 of 1999. Nicholas Orago, in the fourth article, discusses socio-economic rights in Kenya and proposes that if the entrenched socio-economic rights are to achieve their transformative objectives, Kenyan courts must adopt a proportionality approach in the judicial adjudication of socio-economic rights disputes. The fifth article, by Oliver Fuo, explores and critically investigates the relevance and potential of integrated development planning in contributing towards the achievement of social justice in South Africa. Next, Michaela Young discusses the fate of informal fishers in the context of the Policy for the Small-Scale Fisheries Sector in South Africa. The second-last article, by Hermanus van der Merwe, provides a historical and teleological overview of the crime of direct and public incitement to commit genocide under international law, as well as the definitional elements thereof as interpreted and applied by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, before he continues to examine it in contemporary South African law. The last article, by Chuma Himonga, Max Taylor and Anne Pope, explores the scope and content of the ever elusive concept of ubuntu, as pronounced on by the judiciary in various cases, and demonstrates that its fundamental elements of respect, communalism, conciliation and inclusiveness enhance the constitutional interpretation landscape.
 

Empowering and Capacity Building Health Professionals for Better Human Rights Outcomes (Presentation Slides)

In her panel paper Dr Curran of AN discusses how health professionals can utilise the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities:1) To understand human rights and how they are protected in the Charter.2) Identify relevant human rights in real life scenarios.3) Understand how the Charter can be used as an advocacy tool for the empowerment of patients and the achievement of social justice.4) To develop ideas for negotiating better outcomes in local communities.She gives examples of the use of the Charter by medical health professionals to gain better human rights outcomes for their patients from public authorities. One example was of a maternal and child health nurse who used the Charter when a hospital refused to provide urgent medical treatment to an asylum seeker because she could not pay. The feedback from the maternal and child care nurse was that the Charter ‘works’.Symposium Goals:This forum explores the strengths and limitations of human rights and respectful care frameworks in advancing maternity reform in Australia. It seeks to bring together the policy, legal and women’s health communities along with professional providers and birth consumer groups to discuss strategies for improving the quality of care for birthing women and those supporting them.This dialogue was to build on several recent initiatives, including:• the European Human Rights conference held in The Hague in June 2012, • the Childbirth and the Law conference in Sydney in October 2012,• the international White Ribbon Alliance initiative, Respectful Maternity Care.

Jender dalam Kisah-kisah al-Qur’an

<strong>:</strong> It considers equality issues between men and women’s rights in some of the advanced societies of the most important issues of critical importance to the achievement of social justice among individuals, and here appeared aware of gender or gender convention to discuss those issues. Muslims as a community religious and social limitations and organized his own and different from country to country, but they inevitably come back in a lot of things and issues to the Koran as a book in which the divine guidance and the interests of all individuals. This research related to women’s and men’s rights issues and the relationship between them from the Koran perspective, where the Koran is a difference between use of words and words by context, use of the word male and female in the context of creation and differentiation diversity in human formation, while the use of the word of men and women when he was the context of the social and cultural role, Quran stories and also different style for the Torah, where it enters the principles and values and social sermons through his narrative and his words and talks in story mode