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3436 Unpacking international organisations:2833Prelims 22/3/10 14:56 Page 37 3 The European Commission The Commission systematically excludes territorial preferences, institutions and concerns from its agenda-setting processes. Departmental, supranational and epistemic behavioural dynamics are likely to reflect the organisational components of the Commission services. This chapter introduces the Commission organisation and personnel. As will be shown in Chapters 6 to 9, the Commission is indeed a compound system of international bureaucracy, balancing
THE INDIAN EXPERIENCE 223 11 The National Commission for Women: the Indian experience shirin m. rai Introduction In this chapter I will examine the brief history of the National Commission for Women in India that was set up in 1990. First, I will provide a background to the political system within which the Commission functions. I will then examine the structure and functions of the Commission itself. I will point to the strengths and weaknesses of the Commission in the context of the politics of the country, as well as the parameters within which it functions
The TRC’s reconfiguring of the past 1 The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s reconfiguring of the past: remembering and forgetting We are charged to unearth the truth about our dark past, to lay the ghosts of that past so that they will not return to haunt us. And [so] that we will thereby contribute to the healing of a traumatised and wounded people – for all of us in South Africa are wounded people – and in this manner to promote national unity and reconciliation. (Desmond Tutu)1 Because of this very fullness, the hypothetical fullness, of this archive
EUD8 10/28/03 3:16 PM Page 133 8 The Commission and development policy: bureaucratic politics in EU aid – from the Lomé leap forward to the difficulties of adapting to the twenty-first century Adrian Hewitt and Kaye Whiteman To integrate or to surpass the French neo-colonial system: the Commission’s choice From the time that a united Europe was a gleam in the eye of Jean Monnet to the signing of the Treaty of Rome in 1957, the institution of the Commission was central to the European idea. Rather than just a European civil service or a think-tank, it was
2 The Donovan Commission and its Report The establishment of a Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers’ Associations was a response by the Labour Government, narrowly elected in October 1964, to the problems and issues delineated in chapter 1. However, it was also a quid pro quo for passing the 1965 Trade Disputes Act to restore the unions’ legal position following the judicial decision in Rookes v Barnard. In spite of the Royal Commission’s title, it was clear that the primary focus of its investigation was the role and activities of trade unions
12 The Mauritius Truth and Justice Commission: ‘eyewash’, ‘storm in a teacup’ or promise of a new future for Mauritians? Vijayalakshmi Teelock The Neale conference panel ‘Reparations, restitution and the historian’, at which this paper was originally presented, attempted to address issues that have long plagued independent states that were formerly colonial plantation and slave societies. This was a laudable initiative, given that slavery and its legacies continue to haunt these societies in so many ways, with calls for reparations growing louder day by day. As
Simpson 02 19/1/09 11:11 Page 31 2 Truth commissions and dealing with the past Introduction: ‘Dealing with the past’ Following the contextual and thematic material on dealing with the past in Northern Ireland, this chapter offers a critique of structurally and theoretically weak approaches to truth recovery and their institutional manifestations, in particular the predominant mechanisms for dealing with the past in post-conflict societies – truth commissions. The current trend for truth commissions in transitional societies did not begin in South Africa in
This chapter addresses one specific aspect of the International Law Commission’s work on the identification of customary international law: how it sees its own output in relation to custom. While in the latest Conclusions and Commentary on the Identification of Customary International Law (hereafter ‘the Conclusions’) it dedicates specific sections to ‘teachings of publicists’ and judgments, the Commission chose not to dedicate a discrete sub-heading to its own work, instead mentioning it in passing in the commentary preceding the ‘Significance of certain
Dramatising the TRC 2 Dramatising the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: the role of theatre practitioners in exploring the past Throw a clatter of memories at the mirror of your life and watch the pieces scatter on the ground. There’s no pattern. They glint in the shadows, demanding inspection as you hesitate to choose which one you’ll pick up first. Some pieces choose themselves, however much you try to avoid them. (Hugh Lewin, 2011: 17) The end of apartheid brought with it many changes, including changes to the memories with which we engage. The TRC and
The present volume is a timely addition to the vast (and still growing) literature on customary international law. In 2018 the United Nations International Law Commission adopted, on second and final reading, a set of sixteen conclusions (with commentaries) on identification of customary international law, thus bringing to completion a six-year study of the topic. 1 Throughout that time, the question whether, and if so how, the practice of international (intergovernmental) organizations may contribute to the formation and identification of customary