A Magna Carta for all humanity: homing in on human rights

Klug, Francesca

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“…Pellagra links poverty and poor diet to poor human and social capabilities and, we propose, if this need for meat was corrected in a "Moral economy" -as opposed to the worst of neoliberalism and demonisation of the poor and "Precariats" born of austerity -would allow for more equality of opportunity and education across lives and across generations with less discrimination. It would also create a new dawn for researchers and policy makers [123][124][125][126][127][128].…”

Section: Poverty Prevention: Looking Upstreammentioning

confidence: 99%

Poverty and Pellagra’s Penumbras

Williams¹,

Hill²

2022

B-Complex Vitamins - Sources, Intakes and Novel Applications

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Pellagra has largely been forgotten. This is unfortunate as important lessons are to be learnt about the diseases and social and economic consequences of poverty – and for the root cause of poverty (and of affluence) – that involve dietary nicotinamide and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) homeostasis. NAD disruption can occur not only from poor diet but from increased consumption from genotoxic, infectious and metabolic stresses. NAD deficiency is closely linked to poor physical and intellectual development, premature ageing and diseases of ageing. Acute infections, many with NAD-consuming toxins, that may differentially affect the NAD-depleted, now include COVID-19. Some Covid manifestations, such as myoclonic encephalopathy and “Long Covid,” resemble pellagra clinically and biochemically as both have disturbed nicotinic and tryptophan metabolism. Symbionts that supply nicotinic acid, such as TB and some gut micro-organisms, can become dysbiotic if the diet is very deficient in milk and meat, as it is for 1–2 billion or more. High doses of nicotinamide lead to inhibition of NAD-consuming enzymes and excessive induction of nicotinamide-n-methyl transferase (NNMT) with consequent effects on the methylome: this gives a mechanism for an unrecognised hypervitaminosis-B3 with adverse effects of nicotinamide overload for consumers on a high meat diet with “fortified” foods and “high energy” drinks. Methods of measuring NAD metabolism routinely for screening the populations at risk of deficiency and in metabolically ill or infectious disease patients should be developed urgently. Successful intervention should improve human capital and prevent many aspects of poverty, reduce discrimination and even the drive to emigrate.

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Section: Poverty Prevention: Looking Upstreammentioning

confidence: 99%

Poverty and Pellagra’s Penumbras

Williams¹,

Hill²

2022

B-Complex Vitamins - Sources, Intakes and Novel Applications

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“…There is even a sufficient body of international human rights law to justify the use of the phrase International Bill of Rights. Once hailed as 'a Magna Carta for all humanity' (Klug 2015), the International Bill of Human Rights seeks to bring together a number of rights into one codified document (United Nations General Assembly 1948). It consists of the five core human rights treaties of the UN that function to advance the fundamental freedoms and to protect fundamental human rights.…”

Section: Human Rightsmentioning

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Understanding Global Politics

Carey¹,

Zhang²,

Pupacav³

2019

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This book is published under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 license. You are free to: •Share -copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.• Adapt -remix, transform, and build upon the material.Under the following terms:• Attribution -You must give appropriate credit to the author(s) and publisher, provide a link to the license and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.• Non-Commercial -You may not use the material for commercial purposes.

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“…77 Although enumerated rights might have marked something of a departure from common law traditions, it was the ECHR's protection mechanisms and particularly the Strasbourg Court, which made the Convention a novel development. 78 And it is Strasbourg's role which the Conservatives are so eager to challenge, as David Cameron argued "when controversial rulings overshadow the good and patient long-term work that has been done … it has a corrosive effect on people's support for human rights". 79 The 2014 Policy Paper was particularly scathing about the manner in which the Strasbourg Court has interpreted rights in light of contemporary values through its "living-instrument" doctrine.…”

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Magna Carta's Tainted Legacy: Historic Justifications for a British Bill of Rights and the Case Against the Human Rights Act

Murray

2017

SSRN Journal

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Close scrutiny rarely flatters the foundation myths of political orders, but this has not stopped such myths being co-opted for political ends. The near-mythical place of Magna Carta within the UK's constitutional history allowed the Conservative Government to hitch its proposals for repeal of the Human Rights Act to celebrations of its 800-year anniversary. Celebrating a Charter which supposedly embodies the genesis of legal limitations on previously absolute power would seemingly sit uneasily with the Conservative Party's commitment to parliamentary sovereignty in the face of the constraints imposed by the European Convention on Human Rights. Moreover, even if the attribution of trial by jury, freedom of expression and habeas corpus to Magna Carta's overburdened Clauses 39 and 40 is anachronistic, a celebration of the Charter's place in the popular conscience as a bulwark protecting "ancient rights" and liberties is difficult to reconcile with the Government's commitment to scrapping the Human Rights Act. The terms of the 2015 celebrations were, however, closely managed by Conservative ministers to emphasise the indigenous character of Magna Carta within the UK's "ancient constitution" as a counterpoint to European elements within the UK's governance arrangements. As such, Magna Carta has proven as useful to the Conservatives as a means of legitimating their policy of repealing the Human Rights Act as it is as a rallying point for opposing abuses of power. * Senior Lecturer, Newcastle Law School. My thanks to Aoife O'Donoghue (Durham), TT Arvind (Newcastle) and Kevin Crosby (Newcastle) for their encouragement and comments upon earlier drafts of this article. Any errors remain my own.

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A Magna Carta for all humanity: homing in on human rights

Cited by 9 publications

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Poverty and Pellagra’s Penumbras

Poverty and Pellagra’s Penumbras

Understanding Global Politics

Magna Carta's Tainted Legacy: Historic Justifications for a British Bill of Rights and the Case Against the Human Rights Act

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