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The Role of Children’s Court in Parental Responsibility and Child Maintenance: A Comparative Study of England and Kenya Children’s Court
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 3, May 2022
Pages:
82-92
Received:
5 January 2022
Accepted:
28 January 2022
Published:
7 May 2022
Abstract: From the dawn of time, a child has been viewed as an incomplete person who needs the assistance of adults, usually his parents or those acting in loco parentis, to live and thrive in life. Parental responsibility for a child is seen as an essential instrument for fully realizing children’s rights. However, when it comes to a child’s health, this obligation is sometimes fulfilled to the child’s harm rather than for the child’s benefit. In such a scenario, the government generally intervenes through the courts to prepare the necessary actions in the child’s best interests. Given the stringent and time-consuming procedures connected with some countries’ courts, situations may necessitate immediate action. This study examines parental responsibility under Kenyan law and compares it to the system in the United Kingdom, a nation that occupied Kenya until 1963 and is still the source of many written laws in Kenya. Children may be a divine gift, but even gifts require work and care to preserve their usefulness, beauty, or productivity. Despite the importance of raising children, many parents don’t take their parental responsibility seriously enough, making it difficult for the child and thereby underpinning their rights and interests. This study investigated the child’s right to health in relation to the parental obligation to defend this right in crises. It used a doctrinal approach to the research. It proposed, among other things, that provisions be created in the child’s legislation to allow health providers to consider the child’s best interests in an emergency without resorting to the courts.
Abstract: From the dawn of time, a child has been viewed as an incomplete person who needs the assistance of adults, usually his parents or those acting in loco parentis, to live and thrive in life. Parental responsibility for a child is seen as an essential instrument for fully realizing children’s rights. However, when it comes to a child’s health, this ob...
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Main Characteristics of Small and Medium Sized Agrifood Enterprises in Selected Regions of Cameroon
Noumbissi Duplex,
Fon Dorothy Engwali,
Eloundou Etoundi Christian,
Soh Wenda Boris Dinictri
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 3, May 2022
Pages:
93-106
Received:
28 April 2022
Accepted:
12 May 2022
Published:
26 May 2022
Abstract: In a context characterised by low competitiveness of agrifood enterprises in Cameroon, a socio-economic study on Small and Medium-Sized Agrifood Enterprises (SMAE) in the Cameroon cities of Yaoundé in the Centre region, Douala in the Littoral region, and Bafoussam in the West region was carried out between March and September 2021. This was with the aim of analysing the main characteristics of these enterprises. Data were collected from 300 managers of SMAE selected through a purposive sampling method. Descriptive statistical were used to analyse the data. The results revealed that SMEA in Cameroon are mostly Very Small Enterprises (VSE) (89.7%) with less than 10 years of existence, and self-funded without external sources of finance. Their production systems are essentially artisanal (69%) and their personnel are not qualified (72%). In addition, they are mostly organised in the form of Common Initiative Groups (CIGs), cooperatives or enterprises without legal status. These SMAE are mainly run by married (66,7%), female (56%) and higher level graduate (60%) managers with ages ranging from 41 to 50 years. The decision-making process in these enterprises is centred on the managers with a structure based on group work and very few employees with a job description. However, meetings are held frequently in these enterprises, and employees are most often consulted and informed of any developments. Furthermore, the main marketing strategy used by these enterprises is word of mouth, while informal observation is the main business intelligence strategy. Very few SMAE have Research and Development (R&D) activities. Nevertheless, they rely mainly on training to stay technologically alert. In addition, they generally collaborate with customers and suppliers. These characteristics mainly predispose Cameroonian SMEA to be unprofitable and inefficient. Therefore, the paper recommend to sensitize SMAE to the advantages of being formal, to put in place fiscal measures that match up with SMAE’s activities, to develop financial systems adapted to SMAE’s reality, to empower women and reduce gender inequalities in order to improve their managerial performances, to raise young entrepreneurs awareness of the importance of perseverance and the benefit of marriage on business, to help SMAE managers and their personnel to continuously build their capacity, to support SMAE financially and technically, to help SMAE in developing well defined business strategies, to sensitize SMAE managers to the importance of decentralisation in their activities and to promote collaboration between SMAE and strategic partners in their environment.
Abstract: In a context characterised by low competitiveness of agrifood enterprises in Cameroon, a socio-economic study on Small and Medium-Sized Agrifood Enterprises (SMAE) in the Cameroon cities of Yaoundé in the Centre region, Douala in the Littoral region, and Bafoussam in the West region was carried out between March and September 2021. This was with th...
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São Paulo Art Biennial and Its Relation to the Brazilian Art Market
Ana Paula Moreno,
Marcos Rizolli,
Katya Hochleitner
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 3, May 2022
Pages:
107-114
Received:
17 April 2022
Accepted:
23 May 2022
Published:
31 May 2022
Abstract: Art biennials have proliferated around the world. These important events have been influencing the art market in different ways, since the first art biennial, held in Venice in 1895. This article aims to analyze and discuss the relationship between the São Paulo International Art Biennial, established in 1951, and the Brazilian art market. In this study three sources of information were used, with primary and secondary data. The first source was the Brazilian artworks exports data during the exhibition period of the São Paulo Art Biennial, as per the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services of Brazil. The second source was a survey with the commercial staff of renowned Brazilian art galleries. The third source of information used in this paper was the systematic review of articles published in selected newspapers in USA and England about the São Paulo International Art Biennial between 2012 and 2019. The analysis of the gathered information led to the conclusion that, although the São Paulo International Art Biennial may not directly impact the Brazilian art market short-term sales, the event highlights and promotes Brazilian artists internationally, providing a solid base for the recognition of Brazilian art as good and innovative art, therefore being essential to the Brazilian art system and to the Brazilian art market.
Abstract: Art biennials have proliferated around the world. These important events have been influencing the art market in different ways, since the first art biennial, held in Venice in 1895. This article aims to analyze and discuss the relationship between the São Paulo International Art Biennial, established in 1951, and the Brazilian art market. In this ...
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A Study of Anders’ Three Crises: From Machines to Human Shame
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 3, May 2022
Pages:
115-120
Received:
18 May 2022
Accepted:
6 June 2022
Published:
14 June 2022
Abstract: This article aims at showing how the philosopher G. Anders develops his ontology of technology as described in his Outdatedness of Mankind vol. I and II. I argue that Anders’ three crises are a fundamental interpretative key for understanding his philosophy of technology as well as his negative anthropology which should be inscribed within his idiosyncratic approach of a critical theory of technology. The article is structured in the following manner: first, an introduction which presents a super-structure in which become possible to collocate Anders’ discussion on crisis and shame. Second, there will be a discussion on the role played by the machine in the Andersian philosophy of technology. Third, there will be an analysis on the mechanism through which radio and television alter the traditional anthropomorphic notion of ‘experience’ through the creation of phantoms and matrices constituting the crisis of needs. Fourth, there will be an exemplification of the consequences of humanity’s progressive detachment from the awareness of its praxis through the Andersian notion of ‘Promethean Gap’. Fifth, the conclusion will summarise the main results of this article depicting what Anders describes as the pathological status of humanity in the age of the machines, that is, humanity’s shame before its own products.
Abstract: This article aims at showing how the philosopher G. Anders develops his ontology of technology as described in his Outdatedness of Mankind vol. I and II. I argue that Anders’ three crises are a fundamental interpretative key for understanding his philosophy of technology as well as his negative anthropology which should be inscribed within his idio...
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Community Ethics as a Possibility to Develop Direct-Council Democracy, Plurality and Ecological Awareness in Rural and Indigenous Communities in Mexico
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 3, May 2022
Pages:
121-129
Received:
5 May 2022
Accepted:
9 June 2022
Published:
27 June 2022
Abstract: This article analyzes how in some examples of rural indigenous communities in the south of Mexico a way of life based on community Ethics is carried out, a type of Ethics that with the practice of collective values such as mutual support, solidarity, respect, inclusion, community and cooperative work. From this collective vision of life derives practices such as direct council’s democracy, which is developed by distributing power and political responsibility among the different members of the community in this way it and the collective council are the highest authority. The councils are formed by members of the community with rotating positions. At the same time, the direct participation of the inhabitants of the community has a direct impact on decision making. This political participation allows not only the exercise of direct council democracy but also a mechanism of inclusion and the intention of respect for Plurality, since the different members of the community can participate in the council or have a responsibility in the committee, this without gender restrictions since the participation of women is very important in certain examples and in other cases the participation of a third gender is also included; thus exercising through community Ethics the respect for the other, as well as the recognition of the difference, identity and plurality. The construction of an ecological awareness through the care and defense of the environment is also developed from the practice of community ethics, because if we think in community we have to opt for the welfare of all, which implies taking care of natural resources in a responsible manner for collective subsistence, in addition to respect for plurality and beliefs that relate to nature as a cultural and religious issue that is part of the identity of the community. Thinking that allows the development of practices for the care of the environment.
Abstract: This article analyzes how in some examples of rural indigenous communities in the south of Mexico a way of life based on community Ethics is carried out, a type of Ethics that with the practice of collective values such as mutual support, solidarity, respect, inclusion, community and cooperative work. From this collective vision of life derives pra...
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