<p>Since the 1980&rsquo / s, many dictatorships around the world have been replaced by new democracies. These old dictatorships were notorious for their human rights abuses. Many people were killed and tortured / and many others were disappeared. When the new governments came into power, they had to confront these injustices that were perpetrated under the predecessor regime. This was necessary to create a culture of human rights / promote a respect for the law and access to justice. Many confronted these injustices in different ways, some granted amnesty, some prosecuted and others instituted truth commissions. This research paper focuses on truth commissions. The research focuses particularly on the study of the South African Truth Commission. The mandate of the South African Truth Commission is analysed and the investigation into whether the commission served the purpose for which it had been established is discussed.</p>

The problem being researched. The integration of Middle and Eastern European states into democratic processes has determined changes in public sector management and with rationalization of sectors of Lithuanian economy the system of justice was also involved: in the year 1993 the Parliament approved the outlines of the reform of the system of justice which set that legal bases of the reform have to be formed, specialists are to be prepared employees selected, the necessary financial and economical basis created, new legal institutions have to be created and the old ones reformed in order to ensure the stable system of justice. The reform has revealed both the advantages and disadvantages of the system of justice: not all the areas of the system of justice have received the appropriate attention. A similar situation occurred when carrying out the outlines of the Reform of the System of Justice approved in the year 1998. An appropriate and effective functioning of legal proceeding has been emphasized in international acts of law and experts’ meetings: democratization of management of prosecution system and improvement of the legal regulation of its management as well as more operative fulfillment of its functions are necessa ry; the reorganization has not only to strengthen prosecutors’ professionalism but also to ensure the adequate working conditions. This position was approved by the resolutions of the Tenth Congress of the United Nations which took place in Vienna on the 1... [to full text] / Tiriamoji problema. Vidurio ir Rytų Europos valstybių įsijungimas į demokratinius procesus sąlygojo viešojo sektoriaus valdymo pokyčius, o racionalizuojant Lietuvos ūkio sritis, nebuvo aplenkta ir teisinė sistema: 1993 m. Seimas patvirtino Teisinės sistemos reformos metmenis, kuriose nustatyta, kad turi būti formuojami reformos teisiniai pamatai, rengiami specialistai, renkami darbuotojai, kuriama būtina finansinė–ūkinė bei materialinė bazė, pertvarkomos bei kuriamos naujos teisinės institucijos, kurios užtikrintų stabilią teisinę sistemą. Reforma atskleidė tiek teisinės sistemos privalumus, tiek ir trūkumus: ne visoms teisinės sistemos sritims skirtas tinkamas dėmesys. Panaši situacija susiklostė ir įgyvendinant 1998 m. patvirtintas Teisinės reformos metmenis. Ne vieną kartą tinkamas ir efektyvus baudžiamosios teisenos funkcionavimas yra akcentuotas tarptautinės teisės aktuose bei ekspertų susitikimuose: būtinas prokuratūros sistemos valdymo demokratizavimas, jos veiklos teisinio reglamentavimo tobulinimas bei operatyvesnis funkcijų vykdymas, reorganizacija turi ne tik stiprinti prokurorų profesionalumą, bet ir užtikrinti adekvačias darbo sąlygas. Šią poziciją patvirtina 2000 m. balandžio 17 d. Vienoje vykusio dešimtojo Jungtinių Tautų Kongreso dėl nusikaltimų prevencijos bei elgesio su nusikaltėliais sprendimai, kuriais buvo konstatuota, jog tinkamas baudžiamosios teisės sistemos administravimas yra viena iš efektyviausių kovos su nusikalstamumu priemonių. 2002 metų... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]

<p>Since the 1980&rsquo / s, many dictatorships around the world have been replaced by new democracies. These old dictatorships were notorious for their human rights abuses. Many people were killed and tortured / and many others were disappeared. When the new governments came into power, they had to confront these injustices that were perpetrated under the predecessor regime. This was necessary to create a culture of human rights / promote a respect for the law and access to justice. Many confronted these injustices in different ways, some granted amnesty, some prosecuted and others instituted truth commissions. This research paper focuses on truth commissions. The research focuses particularly on the study of the South African Truth Commission. The mandate of the South African Truth Commission is analysed and the investigation into whether the commission served the purpose for which it had been established is discussed.</p>

<p>Sexual violence leaves the victims psychologically traumatised and stigmatised in the eyes of its community. Used on a large scale, sexual violence can destabilise a society as a whole and when used during armed conflicts, it serves as a powerful weapon against members of a community. During armed conflicts, sexual violence is widespread and systematically used as a tool of war and this makes sexual violence amount to crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes. This research paper critically analyses and evaluates sexual violence as an international crime, as well as its prosecution under international criminal law mainly by the International Criminal Court (hereafter ICC), International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (hereafter ICTY) and International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (hereafter ICTR). It discusses the problem of selectivity that can be observed in prosecuting sexual violence that has in fact, left many victims of sexual violence dissatisfied. By doing so, it analyses the law as it is to determine whether the law applied during sexual violence prosecutions is sufficient. The paper also states recommendations that can contribute to the effective prosecution of sexual crimes under international criminal law.</p>

Development of the Prosecutor's Office in Trutnov district in years 1949 - 1993 Abstract Presented work deals with origin, development and activity of District Prosecutor's Office in Trutnov in years 1949 - 1993. Time frame of this work is defined by the beginning of the year 1949, when District Prosecutor's Offices were originated as whole new type of public prosecutor's offices, and by the end of the year 1993, when whole new legal regulation of public prosecutor's offices was accepted, which no longer had roots in communist Czechoslovakia. In the first part the work deals with organisation and position of public prosecutor's offices from historical and legal point of view, where belongs the origin of District Prosecutor's Office in Trutnov. Second part of the work deals with substantive jurisdiction of the Prosecutor's Office, main principles of its activity, qualification and ethics of the prosecutor. Especially it focuses on the problematics of prosecution supervision, which integral components were general supervision, criminal prosecution of persons, supervision over maintaining lawfulness in criminal proceedings, supervision over lawfulness of procedure and court decisions and state notaries and supervision over maintaining lawfulness in places of custody, imprisonment, protective treatment and...

The purpose of this research was to evaluate the existing procedures that investigators in South Africa follow in utilising the information contained in the victim statement in the investigation of rape, with the intention of determining the strengths and weaknesses of the procedures and of considering how these procedures can be improved. The researcher explored how investigators internationally use information contained in the victim statement in the successful investigation of rape and read extensively on the topic in international literature sources. The researcher also evaluated the current methods that investigators within the South African Police Service (SAPS) use. The researcher made use of an empirical research design because of the limited information available on the topic of the research, and a qualitative research approach, which enabled real-life observations. Simple random sampling was used to select 20 uniform members as well as 20 investigators of rape incidents for interviewing. Purposive sampling was used to select two public prosecutors attached to the Sexual Offences Court. Data were obtained from their real-life experiences through interviewing them and data were further collected through case studies of case dockets. / Police Practice / M. Tech. (Forensic Investigation)

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Em 1988, a Assembleia Constituinte, no rastro do processo de redemocratização do país, finalmente apontava para a transformação das políticas sociais no Brasil, cujo resultado foi lavrado na Carta Magna. A partir desse momento, os brasileiros obtiveram o direito de cidadania como estatuto fundamental de nacionalidade, e o direito à saúde como princípio de cidadania. Neste sentido, o setor saúde foi pioneiro nas práticas das políticas sociais no Brasil. A adoção de seus princípios doutrinários e operacionais por lei destacando-se aqui a integralidade significou a afirmação do direito à saúde como caminho de supressão da estrutura fragmentada de organização dos serviços de saúde no Brasil. Integralidade emerge como eixo de organização da defesa do direito à saúde, a partir das propostas de mudanças das práticas no cotidiano dos serviços. O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar as relações existentes entre os usuários do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), a partir dos Conselhos de Saúde, e o Ministério Público (MP) desenvolvida no município de Porto Alegre, no estado do Rio Grande do Sul, no que concerne à utilização de dispositivos institucionais e jurídico legais no cumprimento do direito à saúde. O foco deste estudo esteve voltado para a experiência desenvolvida entre os anos de 2000 e 2004, no município de Porto Alegre. Historicamente, os Conselhos de Saúde naquele estado têm desempenhado papel de destaque na formulação e acompanhamento das políticas públicas de saúde. O avanço desses conselhos permitiu-lhes desenvolver novas estratégias na luta pela garantia do direito à saúde, e o MP vem sendo importante parceiro nessa disputa. Nesse cenário, pudemos observar a utilização, cada vez mais freqüente, do princípio da integralidade como recurso legal na discussão encaminhada pelos usuários junto ao MP, no intuito de garantir o direito à saúde. O princípio da integralidade tem sido utilizado como proposta de transformação da própria lógica da gestão de oferta de serviços. O MP tem propiciado uma interlocução cada vez maior entre a gestão dos serviços e os conselhos de saúde, a fim de encontrar melhores saídas para os principais problemas de saúde do município. Esse espaço de diálogo criado pelo MP constitui avanço substancial na compreensão das formas de solução de conflitos, fundando um novo campo de práticas de aprimoramento do Estado democrático. A atuação conjunta do MP com os Conselhos de Saúde tem levado a instituir novas formas e mecanismos de negociação e pactuação entre as diferentes esferas dos poderes públicos e sua relação com a sociedade, no que diz respeito à institucionalização de uma gramática civil de direito à saúde. / In 1988, the Constituent Assembly, following Brazils return to democracy, finally pointed to the transformations of Brazilian social policies, whose results were expressed in the Constitution. From that moment on, for Brazilians citizenship became the fundamental statute of nationality, and health rights became a citizenship principle. In this sense, the health sector pioneered in Brazilian social policies practices. The adoption of such doctrinaire and operational elements by law where the principle of integrality stands out confirmed the health rights as an approach to suppress the fragmented structure of health services organization in Brazil. This study aims to analyze the relation between patients of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) and the Public Prosecution Service (PPS), in Porto Alegre city, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, concerning the use of institutional, juridical and legal instruments to guarantee health rights, mainly from 2000 to 2004. The Health Councils in that city play an important historical role in formulating and supervising the health public policies. The growth of these councils has permitted them to develop new strategies (with the aid of the PPS) in the struggle for health rights. In this context, we could notice that both patients and prosecutors have been often applyed the integrality principle as a legal source to guarantee health rights. As a result, the principle of integrality has changed the logic of services offer. The PPS has propitiated more and more dialog between services managers and representatives of the Health Councils, in order to find better solutions for the citizens health problems. This space for dialog, created by the PPS, more than an advanced way to solve conflicts, contributes to the increment of democratic practices, as well of the democratic State. The synchronized action of the PPS and the Health Councils has produced new ways and mechanisms of negotiation and agreement between different fields of public government and society, institutionalizing a new civil grammar of health rights.

Magister Legum - LLM (Criminal Justice and Procedure) / In previous centuries, millions of women, men and children were victims of inconceivable atrocities that deeply shocked the scruples of mankind. Regrettably, such crimes often went unpunished in the past. Several people lost lives in the two world wars and in conflicts in Rwanda, Sierra Leone and the former Yugoslavia. Although the International Military Tribunal and ad hoc courts prosecuted some of the major perpetrators in these conflicts, before then, many criminals such as German Kaiser, Wilhelm II, remained unpunished. The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first permanent court with jurisdiction over the most malignant crimes threatening the peace, security and well-being of the world.

Magister Legum - LLM (Criminal Justice and Procedure) / Corruption is a global problem, which poses a serious threat to the development of countries and their people. Although its impact varies, all nations are facing the evils of corruption and, therefore, the international community calls upon states to take preventive and deterrent measures against corruption. For example, the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) and the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption (AU Convention) obligate their member states to have both legal and institutional frameworks for effectively fighting corruption.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Em 1988, a Assembleia Constituinte, no rastro do processo de redemocratização do país, finalmente apontava para a transformação das políticas sociais no Brasil, cujo resultado foi lavrado na Carta Magna. A partir desse momento, os brasileiros obtiveram o direito de cidadania como estatuto fundamental de nacionalidade, e o direito à saúde como princípio de cidadania. Neste sentido, o setor saúde foi pioneiro nas práticas das políticas sociais no Brasil. A adoção de seus princípios doutrinários e operacionais por lei destacando-se aqui a integralidade significou a afirmação do direito à saúde como caminho de supressão da estrutura fragmentada de organização dos serviços de saúde no Brasil. Integralidade emerge como eixo de organização da defesa do direito à saúde, a partir das propostas de mudanças das práticas no cotidiano dos serviços. O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar as relações existentes entre os usuários do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), a partir dos Conselhos de Saúde, e o Ministério Público (MP) desenvolvida no município de Porto Alegre, no estado do Rio Grande do Sul, no que concerne à utilização de dispositivos institucionais e jurídico legais no cumprimento do direito à saúde. O foco deste estudo esteve voltado para a experiência desenvolvida entre os anos de 2000 e 2004, no município de Porto Alegre. Historicamente, os Conselhos de Saúde naquele estado têm desempenhado papel de destaque na formulação e acompanhamento das políticas públicas de saúde. O avanço desses conselhos permitiu-lhes desenvolver novas estratégias na luta pela garantia do direito à saúde, e o MP vem sendo importante parceiro nessa disputa. Nesse cenário, pudemos observar a utilização, cada vez mais freqüente, do princípio da integralidade como recurso legal na discussão encaminhada pelos usuários junto ao MP, no intuito de garantir o direito à saúde. O princípio da integralidade tem sido utilizado como proposta de transformação da própria lógica da gestão de oferta de serviços. O MP tem propiciado uma interlocução cada vez maior entre a gestão dos serviços e os conselhos de saúde, a fim de encontrar melhores saídas para os principais problemas de saúde do município. Esse espaço de diálogo criado pelo MP constitui avanço substancial na compreensão das formas de solução de conflitos, fundando um novo campo de práticas de aprimoramento do Estado democrático. A atuação conjunta do MP com os Conselhos de Saúde tem levado a instituir novas formas e mecanismos de negociação e pactuação entre as diferentes esferas dos poderes públicos e sua relação com a sociedade, no que diz respeito à institucionalização de uma gramática civil de direito à saúde. / In 1988, the Constituent Assembly, following Brazils return to democracy, finally pointed to the transformations of Brazilian social policies, whose results were expressed in the Constitution. From that moment on, for Brazilians citizenship became the fundamental statute of nationality, and health rights became a citizenship principle. In this sense, the health sector pioneered in Brazilian social policies practices. The adoption of such doctrinaire and operational elements by law where the principle of integrality stands out confirmed the health rights as an approach to suppress the fragmented structure of health services organization in Brazil. This study aims to analyze the relation between patients of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) and the Public Prosecution Service (PPS), in Porto Alegre city, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, concerning the use of institutional, juridical and legal instruments to guarantee health rights, mainly from 2000 to 2004. The Health Councils in that city play an important historical role in formulating and supervising the health public policies. The growth of these councils has permitted them to develop new strategies (with the aid of the PPS) in the struggle for health rights. In this context, we could notice that both patients and prosecutors have been often applyed the integrality principle as a legal source to guarantee health rights. As a result, the principle of integrality has changed the logic of services offer. The PPS has propitiated more and more dialog between services managers and representatives of the Health Councils, in order to find better solutions for the citizens health problems. This space for dialog, created by the PPS, more than an advanced way to solve conflicts, contributes to the increment of democratic practices, as well of the democratic State. The synchronized action of the PPS and the Health Councils has produced new ways and mechanisms of negotiation and agreement between different fields of public government and society, institutionalizing a new civil grammar of health rights.