Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

figura

English translation:

(legal) model

Added to glossary by Lisa McCarthy
Jun 20, 2012 08:37
11 yrs ago
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Spanish term

figura

Spanish to English Social Sciences Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. United Nations - Guatemala
For the UK.

Después de la experiencia de MINUGUA, en el 2006 se constituyó, también por petición del gobierno de Guatemala, otra autoridad que no tenía precedente en Naciones Unidas: la “Comisión Internacional contra la Impunidad en Guatemala” (CICIG) presidida por un Comisionado designado por el Secretario General de NNUU, con atribuciones similares a las de un Fiscal Internacional, pero operando bajo la legislación penal y cortes guatemaltecas, con la finalidad de apoyar la investigación y acción legal en contra de los llamados “Cuerpos ilegales y aparatos clandestinos de seguridad”, referencia a manifestaciones del crimen organizado con penetración e influencia dentro del Estado. CICIG no tiene precedentes, por constituir una **figura** en la que un Estado soberano llama a un organismo internacional a compartir la función de justicia.
Proposed translations (English)
4 (legal) model
4 concept
4 framework
3 in terms of

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(legal) model

Another possibility. I think "figura" here must mean "figura jurídica", and I see it as a combination of a legal concept, an institutional structure and a paradigm. I feel "model" combines these implications quite well, particularly since it's saying that this aspect of the commission is unprecedented.

It would probably work without "legal", but I think I'd include it.

"That this house calls on the Attorney-General to send a reference to the Victorian Law Reform Commission to examine the most appropriate legal model for an anticorruption commission for Victoria."
http://vicmps.greens.org.au/content/establishing-victorias-f...

"Saddam's trial creates a new legal model [in] International law"
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-96220270.html
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concept

The CICIG is unprecedented, as a concept in which a sovereign state calls on...
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framework

Two Years of Work: A Commitment to Justice - CICIG
cicig.org/index.php?page=two-years-of-work -
The creation of CICIG was based on a decision by the Guatemalan State, not one ... Within this framework, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a ...
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TWO YEARS OF WORK: A COMMITMENT TO JUSTICE - CICIG
cicig.org/uploads/.../report_two_years_of_work.... -
Formato de archivo: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Vista rápida
majority of the actors who generate opinion in Guatemala. In order to make clear CICIG's action framework, it was fundamental, from the first moment, to ...
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in terms of

The CICIG is unprecedented in terms of a sovereign state calling upon an international organisation...

Admittedly this avoids the translation of "figura" altogether but it flows quite nicely.
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