L’ambition initiale de Rawls est de présenter une analyse de la justice distributive supérieure à la conception utilitariste, incapable, selon lui, de fournir une base satisfaisante de la justice dans le cadre d’une démocratie. Pour ce faire, Rawls mobilisera, dans son principal ouvrage Théorie de la Justice [1971], des idées empreintes de la philosophie politique et morale anglosaxonne mais également de très nombreux concepts forgés par les économistes. Cet ouvrage devient ainsi une référence incontournable pour la philosophie politique contemporaine mais aussi pour les théories économiques de la justice sociale. Notre thèse se propose de reconstruire la théorie de Rawls dont les études, nombreuses mais morcelées, ont donné lieu à des interprétations très contradictoires. Etudier la pensée de l’auteur à l’aune de l’économie sert à donner une cohérence d’ensemble à la justice comme équité, depuis sa genèse jusqu’à ses derniers développements. Cette méthodologie, en effet, nous permet de montrer qu’au-delà de l’indétermination du principe de différence – qui peut justifier tant une politique ultralibérale qu’une politique inspirée des idéaux socialistes – l’amélioration de la situation des plus défavorisés passe par le dépassement du système capitaliste. Ce système n’est pas à même de répondre aux exigences des principes de justice défendus par Rawls. / Rawls’ first ambition is to present an analysis of social justice superior to utilitarian conception, enable, according to him, to provide a satisfactory account of justice in the context of democracy. In order to do that, Rawls took, in his main book A Theory of Justice [1971], ideas imprinted of moral and political philosophy but also many concepts built by the economists. This work became consequently the reference to contemporary political philosophy and also to economic theory of social justice. Our thesis proposes to reconstruct the theory of Rawls. Indeed many but fragmented researches gave rise to conflicting interpretations of this theory. So studying Rawls’ thought regarding economics allows us tobring an overall consistency to the justice as fairness, from its genesis to its last developments. Our methodology aims to show, that beyond the indetermination of the Difference principle – which can either supply an ultraliberal policy or a policy inspired by socialist ideals – the improvement of the situation of the least advantaged required to go beyond capitalism. This system is enable to answer to the requirements of the principles of justice defended by Rawls.

À la suite d’une décision orale rendue le 28 janvier 2009 par la Chambre de première instance I dans l'affaire Lubanga, la Cour pénale internationale a institué un nouvel acteur du procès pénal international : le témoin susceptible d'auto-incrimination qui, à ce titre, est assisté d'un conseil. Ce « témoin assisté » a en commun avec le suspect leur suspicion, et, avec le témoin ordinaire, leur comparution à l’audience ès qualité de témoins. Il n’est cependant ni totalement un suspect – parce que non poursuivable devant la Cour – ni totalement un témoin, parce que notamment impliqué dans la procédure principale. L’évolution de cet acteur singulier du procès pénal international aura eu le mérite de permettre à la Cour de revisiter des notions classiques du droit international pénal. Grâce à lui, la qualité de « parties » n’est plus une forteresse réservée à l’accusation et à la défense. Le témoin ordinaire, considéré comme tiers passif à l’instance, partage désormais la barre avec un « témoin » actif pouvant diligenter des procédures « détachables » de la procédure principale. En sept ans d’existence, le témoin assisté a tellement impacté la procédure pénale internationale qu’une révision des textes fondamentaux de la Cour s’impose pour mettre un terme à la cacophonie jurisprudentielle des chambres sur l’étendue de ses droits et obligations. / Following an oral decision given by the Trial Chamber I in the Lubanga case, the International Criminal Court has introduced a new player into international criminal cases: the self-incriminating witness, who is assisted by a counsel. This "assisted witness", like the suspect, is under suspicion, and like an ordinary witness appears before the Court to testify. However, he is neither completely a suspect, since he cannot be convicted by the Court, nor completely a witness, since he is implicated in the criminal proceedings. The evolution of the role of this singular player in international criminal cases has given the Court the opportunity of reviewing traditional notions of international criminal law. Thanks to this situation, the status of the different parties is no longer restricted to prosecution and defense. The ordinary witness, considered as a passive third party in the trial, now shares the stand with an active witness who is able to speed up proceedings that are separable from the main proceedings. In seven years of existence, the assisted witness has had such an impact on criminal proceedings that it has become necessary to revise the core texts of the Court in order to put an end to the legal confusion among the different chambers regarding the extent of this witness's rights and obligations.

Adopté en 2000, le premier Plan d'Aménagement Territorial de Bogotá (POT) définit un modèle territorial de ville polycentrique. En conformité avec les principes de la planification stratégique au niveau international, des centralités urbaines, existantes ou à créer, sont identifiées et délimitées. Elles doivent articuler au niveau spatial des objectifs de compétitivité urbaine et d'équité territoriale : insérer la ville dans les réseaux de l'économie mondiale et démarginaliser les périphéries. Cette étude a pour objet de mettre à l'épreuve ce projet urbain à partir d'une triple réflexion au niveau des discours, de l'action publique et des dynamiques socio-territoriales. L'analyse de la mise en œuvre du plan par l'action publique révèle des expériences innovantes mais des écarts importants par rapport au projet urbain. Elle identifie de multiples obstacles dans la prise en compte par les politiques urbaines de la dimension territoriale, ainsi que la redéfinition des arbitrages entre compétitivité urbaine et équité territoriale. L'étude de la production, des pratiques et des représentations des centralités qui émergent dans les périphéries populaires montre que ces dernières ne correspondent que très imparfaitement à la figure définie par le POT de « centralités d'intégration urbaine » permettant d'améliorer l'accès à la ville des citadins vivant dans les périphéries. / In 2000, the adoption of the first Territorial Management Plan (POT) defines an urban project for a polycentric city. In accordance with the principles of the strategic planning at the international level, urban centralities, whether existing or not, are identified and delimited. They must articulate, at the spatial level, the goals of urban competitiveness and territorial fairness: inserting the city in the world economy networks and integrating urban peripheries. This research aims at testing this urban project by analyzing its application from a three-dimensional reflection that includes the discourse level, public action, and socio-territorial dynamics. The analysis of the implementation reveals not only innovative experiences but also significant deviations from the urban project. It identifies many obstacles in taking into account the territorial dimension in urban politics and the redefinition of arbitration between urban competitiveness and territorial equity. The study of production, practices, and representations of centralities emerging in the popular peripheries shows that they correspond, only very imperfectly, to the figure defined by the POT "urban integration centralities" and thus the access to the city of the dwellers living in the peripheries should be improved.

Esta dissertação é o resultado de um estudo de caso que abordou as relações entre o financiamento do ensino fundamental e as condições de oferta de educação de qualidade em escolas do município de Porto Alegre, à luz dos princípios do direito à educação e da igualdade de condições de acesso e permanência e equidade, princípios esses amparados na legislação nacional e nos acordos internacionais. No plano conceitual, essa dissertação foi orientada pelos conceitos de igualdade e eqüidade, os quais ofereceram o suporte para as defesas que se buscou fazer ao tratar da necessidade do Poder Público garantir investimentos na escola pública e desenvolver políticas reparadoras às classes sociais desfavorecidas para que o acesso ampliado à escola possa se converter em sucesso escolar. Da mesma forma, defendeu-se a necessidade de que seja (re)introduzido o conceito de igualdade na agenda das políticas do setor educacional, pensado como distribuições desiguais justas, tendo o cuidado de alertar que essa acepção de igualdade não se contrapõe ao respeito à diversidade reivindicada pelos setores que defendem os direitos dessa fatia dos excluídos. Como recurso metodológico foram utilizadas as técnicas da aplicação de questionários semiestruturados, entrevistas, análise documental e observação direta. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida em três escolas de ensino fundamental da cidade de Porto Alegre, sendo uma escola privada que atende alunos de classe média e duas escolas da Rede Municipal de Ensino, situadas na periferia da cidade, que atendem alunos de classe popular. / This work is the result of a case study that approaches the relationship between public education financing and the conditions of provision of qualified education in the schools of Porto Alegre municipality, under the principles of education rights and equality of access, permanence and equity, all of them protected by national law and international agreements. The theoretical framework of this work was oriented by the concepts of equality and equity, which gave support to the defence we tried to make of the idea that Public Power needs to assure investments in basic school, and to develop policies that repair impoverished social classes so that the widened access to school leads to school success. In the same way, we defended the (re)introduction of the concept of equality in the agenda of the educational sector policies, seen as fair yet not equal distribution, noting that this meaning of the word equality is not disrespectful of the idea of diversity claimed by the sectors that defend the rights of this category of excluded people. As a methodological resource, semi-structured questionnaires, interviews, documentary analysis, and direct observation were used as techniques. The research was carried on in three basic schools in Porto Alegre: a private school attended by middle class students and two schools attended by popular class students, located in a suburb, and belonging to the Rede Municipal de Ensino.

The aim of this study was to determine employees' perceptions of the fairness of employment equity practices. It was conducted in an organisation in the Health Services industry, using a Diversity Questionnaire. The sample size was 520 and 245 responses were received, constituting a 47% response rate. Employees' responses were measured along 10 dimensions of employment equity. The unit of analysis was the group according to gender, race, age and job level. Independent t-tests and analysis of variance techniques were used to determine any statistically significant differences in perceptions between groups. Statistically significant differences were found between race groups and job levels. Gender and age did not significantly affect employees' responses. The research concluded that compliance with organisational justice requirements is as important as compliance with legislative requirements. Ultimately, every organisation should adapt its employment equity strategy according to its specific demographic and environmental context. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / M. Admin.

Labor division is highly gendered in Germany, especially after the transition to parenthood. When having a child, more women than men are taking parental leave, and mainly women do the additional household chores. While many studies have looked at the distribution of labor across the transition to parenthood, few studies have investigated how this distribution is perceived. This study explores the perceived fairness of the division of labor in a partnership before and after the transition to parenthood using ordinary least squares (OLS) and fixed-effects regressions. As the focus is set on Germany, the data for the analysis derive from pairfam, a German panel study launched in 2008. The results show that men’s perceived fairness of the division of labor is hardly affected by the transition to fatherhood. For women, in contrast, motherhood leads to a higher perception of fairness. Employment thereby mediates this relationship by decreasing the effect the transition to motherhood has on the fairness. The findings hint to a dissatisfaction of employed women with the distribution of paid and unpaid work after transitioning to parenthood.

Le commerce équitable entend instaurer des relations marchandes plus justes, par l’établissement d’un prix considéré comme juste. En promouvant des échanges équitables, entre des agents économiques ayant un désir de justice, et qui se situent dans des pays différents, le commerce équitable donne à voir la nécessité d’une nouvelle réflexion sur les questions de justice et d’équité. Il révèle l’intérêt d’une théorie de la justice commutative, la justice dans l’échange, alors que dominent les théories de la justice distributive. Grâce au commerce équitable, nous montrons que les théories néoclassique, institutionnaliste et rawlsienne de la justice confondent fréquemment justice avec ajustement, justesse, compassion ou équité, et basculent vers des théories politiques de la justice. Le commerce équitable réactualise la pertinence de la distinction aristotélicienne entre bonne et mauvaise économie, mais il dévoile surtout le fait que la bonne économie est encore possible et vivace, et n’a pas totalement disparu sous la mauvaise chrématistique. Les agents économiques ont un goût pour la justice et ont le désir de « bien » échanger. C’est parce que le commerce équitable entend réhabiliter la possibilité d’une économie à l’abri de la mauvaise chrématistique, inscrite dans un aristotélisme pratique, qu’il nous donne à voir la nécessité d’une théorie de la justice dans l’échange économique et qu’il rejoint in fine les réflexions sur le perfectionnisme moral. / Fair trade aims at creating fairer market relationships, by establishing what is considered to be the just price. By promoting exchanges on an equitable basis, through international partnerships grounded in a desire for justice, fair trade highlights the need for new thinking on the notions of justice and equity. In a world dominated by the theories of distributive justice, it shows the interest of a theory of commutative justice, of justice in the exchange. Fair trade enables us to demonstrate that neoclassical, institutionalist and Rawlsian theories of justice often fail to distinguish between justice and adjustment, accuracy, compassion and equity, and drift towards political theories of justice. Fair trade shows that the Aristotelian distinction between a good and a bad economy is still relevant, but more importantly it reveals the fact that the good economy is enduring, and has not completely disappeared under bad chrematistic. Economic agents have a taste for justice, for a “good” exchange. Because fair trade seeks to restore the possibility of an economy preserved from bad chrematistic and framed in practical Aristotelianism, it shows us the necessity for a theory of justice in economic exchanges and ultimately leads us to consider the notion of moral perfectionism.

Esta dissertação é o resultado de um estudo de caso que abordou as relações entre o financiamento do ensino fundamental e as condições de oferta de educação de qualidade em escolas do município de Porto Alegre, à luz dos princípios do direito à educação e da igualdade de condições de acesso e permanência e equidade, princípios esses amparados na legislação nacional e nos acordos internacionais. No plano conceitual, essa dissertação foi orientada pelos conceitos de igualdade e eqüidade, os quais ofereceram o suporte para as defesas que se buscou fazer ao tratar da necessidade do Poder Público garantir investimentos na escola pública e desenvolver políticas reparadoras às classes sociais desfavorecidas para que o acesso ampliado à escola possa se converter em sucesso escolar. Da mesma forma, defendeu-se a necessidade de que seja (re)introduzido o conceito de igualdade na agenda das políticas do setor educacional, pensado como distribuições desiguais justas, tendo o cuidado de alertar que essa acepção de igualdade não se contrapõe ao respeito à diversidade reivindicada pelos setores que defendem os direitos dessa fatia dos excluídos. Como recurso metodológico foram utilizadas as técnicas da aplicação de questionários semiestruturados, entrevistas, análise documental e observação direta. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida em três escolas de ensino fundamental da cidade de Porto Alegre, sendo uma escola privada que atende alunos de classe média e duas escolas da Rede Municipal de Ensino, situadas na periferia da cidade, que atendem alunos de classe popular. / This work is the result of a case study that approaches the relationship between public education financing and the conditions of provision of qualified education in the schools of Porto Alegre municipality, under the principles of education rights and equality of access, permanence and equity, all of them protected by national law and international agreements. The theoretical framework of this work was oriented by the concepts of equality and equity, which gave support to the defence we tried to make of the idea that Public Power needs to assure investments in basic school, and to develop policies that repair impoverished social classes so that the widened access to school leads to school success. In the same way, we defended the (re)introduction of the concept of equality in the agenda of the educational sector policies, seen as fair yet not equal distribution, noting that this meaning of the word equality is not disrespectful of the idea of diversity claimed by the sectors that defend the rights of this category of excluded people. As a methodological resource, semi-structured questionnaires, interviews, documentary analysis, and direct observation were used as techniques. The research was carried on in three basic schools in Porto Alegre: a private school attended by middle class students and two schools attended by popular class students, located in a suburb, and belonging to the Rede Municipal de Ensino.

It was perceived that an imbalance exists between resource allocations for health care within the Ekurhuleni Health District (EHD). This study consequently used a retrospective, quantitative methodology to investigate health equity in the EHD and to collect information on clinic buildings, staffing and budget allocations. Although clinics were oversupplied in terms of the norms set by the National Department of Health, they were found not to be in keeping with population growth in the Ekurhuleni district. The study highlighted an inequitable spread of nursing staff, which would require that nursing personnel be re-deployed. The per capita spending in the different service delivery regions was also found to be inequitable. It was subsequently recommended that spending on clinics be revised (especially in the populous Southern SDR), that staff be reallocated and that budget allocations be reviewed to achieve equity in Ekurhuleni. / Health Studies / Thesis (M.A. (Public Health))

Summaries in Afrikaans and English / Text in Afrikaans / In the recent decision in Kellerman v South African Transport Services 1993 4 SA 872 (C) a claim for the loss of the use of a thing not utilised in the production of income was apparently allowed for the first time in South African law. A number of strict requirements were however set for such a claim. For a considerable time a claim has been recognised in English and German law even where a substitute was not hired and where the article was used for pleasure purposes. It is submitted that this should also be the position in South African law because the loss of the use of a thing per se has an independent value. It is further submitted that the interest on capital value method (as per English law) can be used as starting-point in the determination of quantum. A degree of flexibility is necessary to ensure fairness and equity. / In die onlangse beslissing in Kellerman v South African Transport Services 1993 4 SA 872 (K) is daar klaarblyklik die eerste maal in die Suid-Afrikaanse reg 'n eis om skadevergoeding weens gebruiksverlies van 'n saak wat nie in die produksie van inkomste gebruik is nie erken. Die hof stel egter 'n aantal streng vereistes vir so 'n eis. 'n Eis word al 'n geruime tyd in die Engelse en Duitse reg erken selfs waar 'n substituut nie gehuur is nie en waar sake bloot vir plesierdoeleindes gebruik is. Daar word submitteer dat dit ook die posisie in die Suid-Afrikaanse reg behoort te wees aangesien gebruiksverlies opsigself 'n selfstandige waarde het. Dit word verder aangevoer dat die rente-op-kapitaalwaarde-metode (soos in die Engelse reg) gebruik kan word as 'n uitgangspunt by kwantumbepaling. Ter wille van redelikheid en billikheid behoort die maatstaf 'n mate van buigsaamheid te he. / Private Law / LL. M.