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This paper analyzes the use in schools of private teaching platforms. They have had a boost with the COVID19 pandemic. The use of Google workplace for education has been considered an effective way both to adapt to the challenges of digitization and to face critical situations. The analysis carried out reveals a threat linked to the privacy of minors. Applying heuristic analysis, the results show the need to implement a principle of technological caution on the use of these platforms in education. It concludes with the need to deepen the analysis of the implications for kids and teenagers of the use of this software and the convenience of applying free and open tools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last decade, it's become apparent how some social groups, heterogenous among them, have asked for and celebrated longer prison sentences for crimes against the values they defend. The aim of this paper is to reflect on the paradox that some movements involved in the struggle for the consolidation of fundamental rights denounce the cruelty and dysfunctions generated by the penal system in general and prison in particular, but justify them as adequate means to make visible, respond to and resolve social problems. These inconsistencies can feed and increase the slippery slope towards punitive and prison exceptionalism and consolidate as another type of punitive populism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In our time, we witness a true proliferation of rights. There is no conflict or human problem that doesn't lead to a debate about the rights we have and whose protection we demand. Such a scenario gives rise to the emergence of multiple challenges for a theory of human rights. These challenges can be both theoretical and practical. This paper points out a peculiar theoretical challenge: the need to clarify and determine very well the scope of any political ideology that contains a theory of human rights. Currently, the theory of the Common has been chosen in order to compare it with the political consequences of two theories that, in some way, have historically preceded it: J.J. Rousseau's General Will and C. Marx's proposal of a generic being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the question regarding the crisis of the effectiveness of human and fundamental rights. This is a challenge that requires commitment, vigilance, shared liability. Rights are an indispensable tool for expressing the value of dignity that is linked to vulnerability as a common human condition. Rights are a type of social practice aimed at their implementation and concretization. It is made up of principles, rules, institutions, procedures, attitudes, acts of interpretation. This practice plays an important role in countering and eliminating the situations that produce violations concerning the subjects in their multiple differences and specific existences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Philosophical reflection on justice for animals finds expression in a multiplicity of theories. In this context are fundamental the theories focused on suffering and compassion (developed among others by Peter Singer and Carol Adams), Tom Regan's theory of animal rights, Will Kymlicka's political theory of animal rights. This paper identifies three open questions, transversal to the different positions that make up this rich and important debate. It deals with the notion of person, the theme of gratuitous moral evil, the presumed principle of reciprocity between rights and duties. The belief underlying the article is that an in-depth study of these theoretical issues could be fruitful in consolidating the idea that justice for animals is an unavoidable goal for every democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper includes some reflections on the challenges for rights deriving from populism, technology and geopolitics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper refers to the language of rights in the public debate, focusing the attention with the characters of imperativity, inviolability, absoluteness which are proper to the term 'right'. It focuses, on the one hand, on situations where every interest is claimed as a 'right', and, on the other hand, on situations where, on the contrary, fundamental human rights are not widely and unanimously recognized, which is typically the case of women's human rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]