Africa: Risk, Security and Mapping of Human Rights Violations

Perpetration of gross human rights violations in South Africa: association with psychiatric disorders.

BACKGROUND A nationally representative study of psychiatric disorders in South Africa provided an opportunity to study the association between perpetration of human rights violations (HRVs) during apartheid and psychiatric disorder. Prior work has suggested an association between perpetration and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but this remains controversial. METHODS Subjects reported ...

cultural diversity, human rights and approach of human security

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The HIV epidemic and human rights violations in Brazil

Received 24 July 2013; Revised 23 September 2013; Accepted 9 October 2013; Published 12 November 2013 Copyright: – 2013 Malta M and Beyrer C; licensee International AIDS Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distributio...

The Impact of Pro-Government Militias on Human Rights Violations

Violations of human rights: health practitioners as witnesses.

For humanitarian health-care practitioners bearing witness to violations of human dignity has become synonymous with denunciations, human rights advocacy, or lobbying for political change. A strict reliance on legal interpretations of humanitarianism and human rights is inadequate for fully understanding the problems inherent in political change. With examples from the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the ...