Sunday, July 04, 2010
Sunday, June 06, 2010
fogwill
un chingo y desmadre zapatista
Thursday, June 03, 2010
justicia comunitaria
Adat: customary laws in Indonesia
Aksakal: elders with customary authority in Kyrgyzstan
Barangay: non-state justice mechanisms in parts of the Philippines
Bii: customary legal authorities in parts of pre-Soviet Central Asia
Bulubulu: ritual apology and recompense in Fiji
Casa de Justicia: legal service centres in Colombia
Dhimmi: non-Muslim minorities or majorities who, provided they paid a tax to the Muslim state or ruler and accepted certain legal disabilities, were granted state protection and permitted to continue to practice their religion and to be governed by separate personal laws
Dina: customary dispute and conflict resolution mechanism body in Madagascar
Diya: blood money and retribution payments derived from
interpretations of Shari’ah
Get: a written consent to being divorced, required for the
validity of a divorce in Halachic Jewish law which
prohibits divorce against the will of the spouse
Jirga or shura: tribal council in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan
Kaikuli: a customary payment from the husband to the wife which is held in trust by the husband (Sri Lanka)
Kastom: customary law in the Solomon Islands
Kris Romani: dispute resolution mechanism
Lok: adalat a quasi-judicial, alternative dispute resolution mechanism established by act of Parliament in India
Mamzer: illegitimate Jewish child who is forbidden to marry a
Jew for ten generations
Mehr: dower
Mille: system the Ottoman Empire’s system of distinct personal laws for various religious communities
Musalihat: anjuman literally, ‘forum for problems’, an alternative dispute resolution mechanism established by law in Pakistan
Nyaya panchayats: village panchayats granted some judicial powers under 1950s legislation in India
Panchayat: customary decision-making forum in the Indian subcontinent
Rido: clan and interkin group conflicts among the Maranao and Maguindanao Muslims in the Philippines
Riwaj: customary law among the Pathan in Pakistan and Afghanistan
Rondas campesinas: neighbourhood or night watch peasant patrols with some adjudicative functions, found in some Latin American countries (especially Peru)
Shalish: informal adjudication of civil and criminal disputes by local notables in Bangladesh
Talaq: unilateral divorce initiated by a Muslim husband
Xeer Somali: customary law