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The Human Rights Committee started its work under the Optional Protocol at its second session in 1977. From then until its seventy-fourth session in 2002, 1069 communications relating to alleged violations by 69 States Parties were placed before it for consideration. This volume presents interlocutory and final decisions from the sixty-sixth to the seventy-fourth sessions.

The book presents the proceedings of the conference held in the Aula Magna of the University of Florence on 28 and 29 October 2004. The objective of the conference was to study, through a multidisciplinary approach, the question of government and representation at local, national and European level. Among the central issues addressed during the meeting were models of representation, the links between representation and civil society and the functions of the representative organs.

Este ensayo se propone repensar la política revolucionaria de un modo no marxista, tomando como modelo algunas verdades de hecho introducidas por la secuencia de acontecimientos que se despliega entre las revueltas en algunos países árabes y la ola de Occupy, y muy particularmente el 15M. Hannah Arendt hubiese hablado a este respecto de la más reciente reaparición mundial del tesoro perdido de la tradición revolucionaria. Entre estos acontecimientos y el modo de pensar de Arendt nos ha parecido que se daba una profunda y misteriosa resonancia. Por eso el ensayo interroga principalmente...