26 research outputs found
Can the Notion of the Rule of Law Be Applied to the UN System?
The paper demonstrates that the Charter of the United Nations contains some incompatible norms, a fact that directly impacts the organization’s system of collective security. The voting procedure of the Security Council, privileging its permanent members, stands in open contradiction to the Charter’s principle of “sovereign equality” of all member states. Article 27(3) of the Charter makes uniform enforcement of the prohibition of the international use of force impossible because it effectively exempts the organization’s five permanent members. Those states can block any decision of the Council even in cases when they are themselves party to a dispute. The problem is further aggravated by a lack of checks and balances in the UN system in general. The International Court of Justice has no competence to rule on the Security Council’s use of its vast coercive powers under Chapter VII of the Charter. The supreme executive organ of the UN can act as “index in causa sui.” Thus, the lack of a separation of powers – in tandem with the statutory privilege of some of the most powerful states – makes the “rule of law” an elusive idea in the intergovernmental system of the United Nations
Closed doors: predictors of stress, anxiety, depression, and PTSD during the onset of COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
BACKGROUND: The rise in mental health problems in the population directly or indirectly because of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a major concern. The aim of this study was to investigate and compare independent predictors of symptoms of stress, anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Brazilians one month after the implementation of measures of social distancing. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was performed using a web-based survey. The Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21) and PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) were the outcomes. Data were gathered regarding demographics, social distancing, economic problems, exposure to the news of the pandemic, psychiatric history, sleep disturbances, traumatic situations, and substance use. The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test - Consumption (AUDIT-C) was also administered. The predictors of the symptoms were investigated using hierarchical multiple linear regression. RESULTS: Of a sample of 3587 participants, approximately two-thirds considered that their mental health worsened after the beginning of the social restriction measures. The most important predictors of the symptoms investigated were the intensity of the distress related to the news of the pandemic, younger age, current psychiatric diagnosis, trouble sleeping, emotional abuse or violence, and economic problems. CONCLUSIONS: These results confirmed the hypothesis that the pandemic impacted the mental health of the population and indicated that the level of distress related to the news was the most important predictor of psychological suffering
The Middle East in the Emerging Global Order
The article analyzes the consequences of socio-political transformation in the Arab world for the wider region of the Middle East. After a review of the historical background, the author draws conclusions for world order in the context of a new balance of power
Weg aller Welt/ Das ist: Eine Christliche Leichpredigt/ Aus dem Büchlein Josuae am 23. Cap. v. 14. Siehe/ Ich gehe heute dahin/ wie alle Welt etc.; Bey ... Leichbegängnüß/ Des ... Herrn Friederich Weigandt von Lengefeldt ... Obristen Leutenants/ Welcher am heiligen New Jahrestage/ den 1. Januarii 1641. ... eingeschlaffen/ und folgendes den 26. dieses ... in die ihme in der Kirchen wohl zubereitete RuheKammer verwarlichen beygesetzet worden
Das apriorische Moment der Subjekt-Objekt-Dialektik in der transzendentalen Phänomenologie
Skiagraphia, Vitae Aeternae: Das ist: Kurtze Abbildung des ewigen Lebens/; Bey dem ... Leichbegängnus/ Der ... Frawen Marthen/ Gebornen von Witzleben/ Des ... Herman Münchens/ Erbsassen auff Gosserstedt unnd Döbritschen/ gewesenen hertzlieben Haußfrawen/ Welche den 27. Martii dieses instehenden 1618. Jahres ... verschieden/ und den 3. Aprilis hernacher ... zu Gosserstedt zur Erden bestattet worden
Material matters: Commissioning contemporary artworks from Papua New Guinea for the 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
Disputatio Iuridica De Usucapionibus : Quam ... Consensu & Authoritate ... ICtorum ordinis in florentissima LL. Nutrice Salana
Praeside ... Rudolph-Wilhelmo Krauß ... Placido examini subiicit Christophorus Köchlerus, Salf. Thuring. In Auditorio ICtorum Ad diem Decemb