The Marrakesh Treaty as “Bottom Up” Lawmaking: Supporting Local Human Rights Action on IP Policies

Infrastructural requirements for local implementation of safety policies: the discordance between top-down and bottom-up systems of action

BACKGROUND Safety promotion is planned and practised not only by public health organizations, but also by other welfare state agencies, private companies and non-governmental organizations. The term 'infrastructure' originally denoted the underlying resources needed for warfare, e.g. roads, industries, and an industrial workforce. Today, 'infrastructure' refers to the physical elements, organiz...

Socialbots supporting human rights

Socialbots, or non-human/algorithmic social media users, have recently been documented as competing for information dissemination and disruption on online social networks. Here we investigate the influence of socialbots in Mexican Twitter in regards to the"Tanhuato"human rights abuse report. We analyze the applicability of the BotOrNot API to generalize from English to Spanish tweets and propos...

Constitutional Treaty Between Problem - Solving Treaty and Rights - Based Constitution

Preventing violence and reinforcing human security: a rights-based framework for top-down and bottom-up action.

This article explores the violence reduction potential in the intersection between health, criminal justice, and development. It emphasizes public health, rule of law, and equality-driven socioeconomic development as principal concerns in preventing violence. In parts of Latin America, violence has become a serious public health and security problem. Prior studies have explored the risk factors...

Policy Expressions and the Bottom-Up Design of Computing Policies

A policy is a sequence of rules, where each rule consists of a predicate and a decision, and where each decision is either “accept” or “reject”. A policy P is said to accept (or reject, respectively) a request iff the decision of the first rule in P , that matches the request is “accept” (or “reject”, respectively). Examples of computing policies are firewalls, routing policies and software-def...