https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/110855 2026-04-15T12:55:34Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/111127 Title: Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights : volume 1 : number 1 Editors: Andò, Salvo; Busuttil, Salvino Abstract: Table of contents:; Editorial Foreword: The Mediterranean and Human Rights: An Overview by Salvo Ando and Salvino Busuttil; ARTICLES:; · Les droits de l'homme: un nouvel enjeu pour le monde arabe: Abdelwahab Biad; · The Constitutional Function of Human Rights: Augusto Barbera; · Peacekeeping and Human Rights: A Crucial but Uneasy relationship: Fred Tanner; · Human Rights and Mediterranean Security: Salvo Ando; · Cittadinanza e tutela della persona - Profili di diritto costituzionale e di diritto civile: Guido Alpa; · The Right to Free Interpretation under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights: J J Cremona; · I Diritti naturali in diritto costituzionale nel 1789: Luigi Compagna; COMMENTS:; · The Presumption of Innocence: An Essay on the Jurisprudence on this Human Right: G Mifsud Bonnici; · Rights, Compensation and the Market in Maltese Case Law: E P Delia; · The Procedure of Adopting the Decisions of the Human Rights Committee Relating to Communications under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Vojin Dimitrijevic; · Human and Institutional Aspects in the Adjustment-growth Programmes for Mediterranean Developing Countries: Francesco Forte; · Immigrants' Rights and the Recent Italian Constitutional Experience: Cesare Pinelli 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/111102 Title: Immigrants' rights and the recent Italian constitutional experience Authors: Pinelli, Cesare Abstract: According to continental Europe's general theory of public law, sovereignty, land and people were, and still are, the three "constituent elements of the State". This theory was partly built upon, and can be harmonised with the dualistic theory of international law, which considers the State as the only subject of the international community and its laws as the supreme and exclusive expression of a sovereign power to grant rights to aliens who reside on its land. Nevertheless, it is also certain that the legal status of citizenship was born during the French Revolution, and has been considered an obvious issue of constitutional provision since then. This is why, in continental Europe countries, the historical roots of the concept of citizenship are so ambiguous. From one side, this concept is linked with a theory of public law whose main task was to affirm the sovereignty of the State. From the other side, it is linked with a political and constitutional promise of freedom and equality. [excerpt] 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/111101 Title: Human and institutional aspects in the adjustment-growth programs for Mediterranean developing countries Authors: Forte, Francesco Abstract: Among the economists and in the business community of the Western countries a new area of economics is now gaining momentum: ethics economics. It seems appropriate to consider the ethic point of view of economic matters, not only in market economy, but also in public economy and in economic policy; not only in national economic issues but also in international economics. The ethic point of view of economics is now gradually and increasingly entering the World Bank philosophy of adjustment and growth. I believe that it should also increasingly enter in the view of the European Union as for the relation between the developed countries belonging to EU of Europe and the less developed which belong to the surrounding area: as the Mediterranean countries, which from Slovenia to Turkey, to Malta, to Cyprus, to the African side of the Mediterranean sea and to the Middle East countries are partners of the "Mediterranean projects" together with the four EU countries overlooking on this sea (Spain, France, Italy, Greece). [excerpt] 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/111100 Title: The procedure of adopting the decisions of the Human Rights Committee relating to communications under the optional protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Authors: Dimitrijevic, Vojin Abstract: One of the most important functions of the Human Rights Committee, established under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (henceforth: the Committee), which was adopted on 16 December 1966 and entered into force on 23 March 1976, was determined by the Optional Protocol to the same Covenant (same dates of adoption and entry into force). The Optional Protocol provides for the competence of the Committee to consider communications from private individuals claiming to be victims of violations of the rights and freedoms recognised in the Covenant by a State party to the Optional Protocol. In recent years this function of the Committee has become more and more important, which can be judged by the increasing number of ratifications of or adhesions to the Optional Protocol, the almost exponential growth of the number of communications (complaints) received and registered, and consequently, by the amount of time the Committee has had to devote to the consideration of the communications, which is visible from the data provided in regular annual reports of the Committee to the UN Economic and Social Council and General Assembly. [excerpt] 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z