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- By Zachary W. Adams, Margarita Alegría, Atalay Alem, Jordi Alonso, Victor Aparicio, Rifat Atun, Florence Baingana, Emily Baron, Marco Bertelli, Dinesh Bhugra, Sanchita Biswas, José Miguel Caldas de Almeida, Edwin Cameron, Somnath Chatterji, Erminia Colucci, Janice L. Cooper, Carla Kmett Danielson, Diego De Leo, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Marten W. de Vries, Maureen S. Durkin, Xiangming Fang, Julia W. Felton, Sally Field, Andrea Fiorillo, Lance Gable, Teddy Gafna, Sandro Galea, Patrick Gatonga, Sofia Halperin-Goldstein, Yanling He, Grace A. Herbert, Sabrina Hermosilla, Simone Honikman, Takashi Izutsu, Ruwan M. Jayatunge, Janis H. Jenkins, Rachel Jenkins, Lynne Jones, Jayanthi Karunaratne, Ronald C. Kessler, Rob Keukens, Lincoln I. Khasakhala, Hanna Kienzler, Sarah Kippen Wood, M. Thomas Kishore, Robert Kohn, Natasja Koitzsch Jensen, Sheri Lapatin, Anna Lessios, Isabel Louro Bernal, Feijun Luo, Laura MacPherson, Matthew J. Maenner, Anne W. Mbwayo, David McDaid, Ingrid Meintjes, Victoria N. Mutiso, David M. Ndetei, Samuel O. Okpaku, Lijing Ouyang, Ramachandran Padmavati, Clare Pain, Duncan Pedersen, Jordan Pfau, Felipe Picon, Rodney D. Presley, Reima Pryor, Shoba Raja, Thara Rangaswamy, Jorge Rodriguez, Diana Rose, Moosa Salie, Norman Sartorius, Ester Shapiro, Manuela Silva, Daya Somasundaram, Katherine Sorsdahl, Dan J. Stein, Deborah M. Stone, Heather Stuart, Athula Sumathipala, Hema Tharoor, Rita Thom, Lay San Too, Atsuro Tsutsumi, Chris Underhill, Anne Valentine, Claire van der Westhuizen, Thandi van Heyningen, Robert van Voren, Inka Weissbecker, Gail Wyatt
- Edited by Samuel O. Okpaku
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- Essentials of Global Mental Health
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- 05 March 2014
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- 27 February 2014, pp x-xiv
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Chapter 7 - Internalized stigma
- from Section 2 - Advocacy and reduction of stigma
- Edited by Samuel O. Okpaku
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- Essentials of Global Mental Health
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- 05 March 2014
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- 27 February 2014, pp 72-77
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This chapter traces the origin and background of modern global mental health and sketches its domain. A primary objective of global health and mental health is the eradication of disparities in terms of access to care, quality of life, and well-being worldwide. Dorothea Dix and Clifford Beers contributed immensely to global mental health and had experiences of mental illness, making their contribution more instructive. Currently, membership in the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) is open to individuals, users and survivors, and mental health and disability societies. The World Health Organization (WHO) played a vital role in several aspects of mental health worldwide. The future of global health and mental health is likely to be influenced by a variety of driving factors. One of these is activism. The concerns of global mental health focus on the most needy communities, in the low- and middle-income countries, but the vision is worldwide.
17 - Judges, bias and recusal in South Africa
- from Part IV
- Edited by H. P. Lee, Monash University, Victoria
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- Judiciaries in Comparative Perspective
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- 07 September 2011
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- 11 August 2011, pp 346-360
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The South African Constitution confers extensive powers on the South African judiciary to uphold the rule of law. In so doing, it stipulates that courts must be independent and subject only to the Constitution and to the law, which judges must apply impartially and without fear, favour or prejudice.
Judicial impartiality is thus a principle at the forefront of the Constitution, but it was also deeply embedded in South African common law. Roman-Dutch law (derived substantially from Roman law) recognised the principle that no one should be a judge in his (or her) own cause and afforded a remedy, the exceptio recusationis, to enforce it. In the era of parliamentary sovereignty before the new democratic dispensation, the courts conferred perhaps the strongest protection they could on the common law requirement of judicial impartiality: they held that it could be excluded only by an express provision in an Act of Parliament. The Roman-Dutch law principle is substantially similar to the English common law principle of judicial impartiality and, accordingly, Commonwealth jurisprudence on judicial impartiality has been influential in South African courts.
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- By Justice Edwin Cameron, Supreme Court of Appeal Chairperson of Council, University of the Witwatersrand
- Edited by Francesco d'Errico, George Washington University, Washington DC, Lucinda Backwell, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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- From Tools to Symbols
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- Wits University Press
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- 04 June 2019
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- 01 June 2005, pp xxiii-xxvi
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This conference celebrates and explores the origins of technology and the human brain, and the evolution of our species. It is particularly appropriate that it is held in South Africa. For more than a decade, South Africa has been at the centre of dynamic change that has reshaped our world and our ideas about ourselves as Africans and South Africans. We achieved, against all odds, a relatively peaceful transition from a racially oppressive system to a functioning democracy. Every person in our country has guaranteed rights of democracy and freedom of speech under our Constitution. In addition, through our Constitution – one of the most progressive in the world – we as South Africans make a series of promises to each other concerning treating each other with dignity, equality and non-discrimination, as well as providing each other with basic socio-economic rights. From the base premises of apartheid we have joined as South Africans in aspiring to create a non-racial society based upon the fundamentals of civilised conditions and mutual respect. In doing so we have done more than merely refuse to be the prisoners of our degrading racial past. We have in fact demonstrated to the world the innate potential of humanity – the qualities of restraint, coordination and respect that have helped make Homo sapiens such a successful species.
Yet, we still struggle. As the scientists assembled here will almost certainly tell us, we are very far from perfect – we have flawed anatomies, we misuse and abuse our technologies, and we have a too-marked propensity for intra-species violence. At this time in history, almost more than at any other time, humankind as a species faces grave issues. Here in Africa and around the world we face a mass epidemic of HIV/AIDS – a disease that probably originated in Africa. Our continent struggles with wars and famine, with racism, ethnicity, tribalism and religious intolerance. Our technologies – the very subject this conference explores – have been a blessing and a burden. We have used them for good: curing diseases, uplifting human lives, and exploring our world around us. In doing so, we utilised the power of the human brain, evolved here in Africa, to its fullest.