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This book explores the extent of parallelism and cross-influence
between Catholic Social Teaching and the work of the world's oldest
human rights institution, the International Labour Organisation
(ILO). Sometimes there is a mutual attraction between seeming
opposites who in fact share a common goal. This book is about just
such an attraction between a secular organisation born of the
political desire for peace and justice, and a metaphysical
institution much older founded to bring peace and justice on earth.
It examines the principles evident in the teachings of the Catholic
Church and in the secular philosophy of the ILO; together with the
theological basis of the relevant provisions of Catholic Social
Teaching and of the socio-political origins and basis of the ILO.
The spectrum of labour rights covered in the book extends from the
right to press for rights, i.e., collective bargaining, to rights
themselves - conditions in work - and on to post-employment rights
in the form of social security and pensions. The extent of the
parallelism and cross-influence is reviewed from the issue of the
Papal Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII Rerum Novarum (1891) and from the
founding of the ILO in 1919. This book is intended to appeal to
lay, professional and academic alike, and will be of interest to
researchers and academics working in the areas of international
human rights, theology, comparative philosophy, history and social
and political studies. On 4 January 2021 it was granted an
Imprimatur by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool, Malcolm
P. McMahon O.P., meaning that the Catholic Church is satisfied that
the book is free of doctrinal or moral error.
This book explores the extent of parallelism and cross-influence
between Catholic Social Teaching and the work of the world's oldest
human rights institution, the International Labour Organisation
(ILO). Sometimes there is a mutual attraction between seeming
opposites who in fact share a common goal. This book is about just
such an attraction between a secular organisation born of the
political desire for peace and justice, and a metaphysical
institution much older founded to bring peace and justice on earth.
It examines the principles evident in the teachings of the Catholic
Church and in the secular philosophy of the ILO; together with the
theological basis of the relevant provisions of Catholic Social
Teaching and of the socio-political origins and basis of the ILO.
The spectrum of labour rights covered in the book extends from the
right to press for rights, i.e., collective bargaining, to rights
themselves - conditions in work - and on to post-employment rights
in the form of social security and pensions. The extent of the
parallelism and cross-influence is reviewed from the issue of the
Papal Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII Rerum Novarum (1891) and from the
founding of the ILO in 1919. This book is intended to appeal to
lay, professional and academic alike, and will be of interest to
researchers and academics working in the areas of international
human rights, theology, comparative philosophy, history and social
and political studies. On 4 January 2021 it was granted an
Imprimatur by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool, Malcolm
P. McMahon O.P., meaning that the Catholic Church is satisfied that
the book is free of doctrinal or moral error.
There is something visceral about ownership. This is mine; you
can't have it. This is mine; you can share it. This is ours. Try to
find it. Contemporary literature and investigative journalism are
showing that the scale of the problem of tax evasion, money
laundering, organised crime, terrorism, bribery, corruption and
gross human rights abuses is vast. Ownership - specifically, the
quest to identify beneficial owners - has been chosen by national
and international regulators as the touchstone, the litmus test in
the fight back. An owner by definition must possess something for
which they are financially accountable. But what is meant by
"ownership"? This book explains why ownership is pivotal to
accountability, and what ownership means in common law, civil law
and Shariah law terms. It looks in detail at State, regional and
international transparency strategies and at an equally powerful
global private counter-initiative to promote beneficial ownership
avoidance through the use of so-called "orphan structures". Where
there is no owner, there is no accountability. The distinction
between privacy and legitimate confidentiality on the one hand, and
concealment on the other is explained with reference to commercial
and trade law and practice, principles of corporate governance and
applicable business human rights. This book introduces one further
counter initiative: the phenomenon of transient ownership made
possible through the use of cryptocurrency and the blockchain. The
study concludes with a blueprint for action with recommendations
addressed to states, international organisations, practitioners and
other stakeholders.
This book sails in uncharted waters. It takes a human rights-based
approach to tax havens, and is a detailed analysis of structures
and the laws that generate and support these. It makes plain the
unscrupulous or merely indifferent ways in which, using tax havens,
businesses and individuals systematically undermine and for all
practical purposes eliminate access to remedies under international
human rights law. It exposes as abusive of human rights a complex
structural web of trusts, companies, partnerships, foundations,
nominees and fiduciaries; secrecy, immunity and smoke screens. It
also lays bare the cynical manipulation by tax havens of
traditional legal forms and conventions, and the creation of
entities so bizarre and chimeric that they defy classification. Yet
from the perspective of the tax havens themselves, these are
entirely legitimate; the product of duly enacted domestic laws.
This book is not a work of investigative journalism in the style of
the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Panama Papers, exposing
political or financial corruption, money laundering or the
financing of terrorism. All those elements are present of course,
but the focus is on international human rights and how tax havens
do not merely facilitate but actively connive at their breach. The
tax havens are compromising the international human rights legal
continuum.
There is something visceral about ownership. This is mine; you
can't have it. This is mine; you can share it. This is ours. Try to
find it. Contemporary literature and investigative journalism are
showing that the scale of the problem of tax evasion, money
laundering, organised crime, terrorism, bribery, corruption and
gross human rights abuses is vast. Ownership - specifically, the
quest to identify beneficial owners - has been chosen by national
and international regulators as the touchstone, the litmus test in
the fight back. An owner by definition must possess something for
which they are financially accountable. But what is meant by
"ownership"? This book explains why ownership is pivotal to
accountability, and what ownership means in common law, civil law
and Shariah law terms. It looks in detail at State, regional and
international transparency strategies and at an equally powerful
global private counter-initiative to promote beneficial ownership
avoidance through the use of so-called "orphan structures". Where
there is no owner, there is no accountability. The distinction
between privacy and legitimate confidentiality on the one hand, and
concealment on the other is explained with reference to commercial
and trade law and practice, principles of corporate governance and
applicable business human rights. This book introduces one further
counter initiative: the phenomenon of transient ownership made
possible through the use of cryptocurrency and the blockchain. The
study concludes with a blueprint for action with recommendations
addressed to states, international organisations, practitioners and
other stakeholders.
This book presents how metasurfaces are exploited to develop new
low-cost single sensor based multispectral cameras. Multispectral
cameras extend the concept of conventional colour cameras to
capture images with multiple color bands and with narrow spectral
passbands. Images from a multispectral camera can extract
significant amount of additional information that the human eye or
a normal camera fails to capture and thus have important
applications in precision agriculture, forestry, medicine, object
identifications, and classifications. Conventional multispectral
cameras are made up of multiple image sensors each externally
fitted with a narrow passband wavelength filters, optics and
multiple electronics. The need for multiple sensors for each band
results in a number of problems such as being bulky, power hungry
and suffering from image co-registration problems which in turn
limits their wide usage. The above problems can be eliminated if a
multispectral camera is developed using one single image sensor.
This book sails in uncharted waters. It takes a human rights-based
approach to tax havens, and is a detailed analysis of structures
and the laws that generate and support these. It makes plain the
unscrupulous or merely indifferent ways in which, using tax havens,
businesses and individuals systematically undermine and for all
practical purposes eliminate access to remedies under international
human rights law. It exposes as abusive of human rights a complex
structural web of trusts, companies, partnerships, foundations,
nominees and fiduciaries; secrecy, immunity and smoke screens. It
also lays bare the cynical manipulation by tax havens of
traditional legal forms and conventions, and the creation of
entities so bizarre and chimeric that they defy classification. Yet
from the perspective of the tax havens themselves, these are
entirely legitimate; the product of duly enacted domestic laws.
This book is not a work of investigative journalism in the style of
the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Panama Papers, exposing
political or financial corruption, money laundering or the
financing of terrorism. All those elements are present of course,
but the focus is on international human rights and how tax havens
do not merely facilitate but actively connive at their breach. The
tax havens are compromising the international human rights legal
continuum.
This book presents how metasurfaces are exploited to develop new
low-cost single sensor based multispectral cameras. Multispectral
cameras extend the concept of conventional colour cameras to
capture images with multiple color bands and with narrow spectral
passbands. Images from a multispectral camera can extract
significant amount of additional information that the human eye or
a normal camera fails to capture and thus have important
applications in precision agriculture, forestry, medicine, object
identifications, and classifications. Conventional multispectral
cameras are made up of multiple image sensors each externally
fitted with a narrow passband wavelength filters, optics and
multiple electronics. The need for multiple sensors for each band
results in a number of problems such as being bulky, power hungry
and suffering from image co-registration problems which in turn
limits their wide usage. The above problems can be eliminated if a
multispectral camera is developed using one single image sensor.
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