Are Our Rights Illegal?

Combating Illegal Organ Transplantation Under International Human Rights Law

Despite the fact that the concepts of organ transplantation and organ trafficking seem two completely distinct categories at first glance, sometimes they overlap with each other. This is especially in cases in which organ transplantation occurs from one country to another and for a financial exchange. There are two general indicators for determining the distinction between organ transplantation...

Animal Rights: Broadening Our Perspective; Broadening Our Base

Women's rights are human rights.

The US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala, challenged the world to live up to the affirmation made in Cairo: that women's rights are human rights. The US has responded to this affirmation with vigor by recognizing that when given knowledge, education, opportunity, and power, women can be heroines; they can move mountains to help themselves and the others whom they are de...

Why Workers’ Rights Are Not Women’s Rights

“Why workers’ rights are not women’s rights” is an argument whose purpose is to make clear why workers’ rights rest on a masculine embodiment of the labor subject and it is this masculine embodiment which is at the center of employment contracts and employment relations systems. By excavating the gender subjects implicit to and explicit in regulations of labor, the paper reveals the opposition ...

These are your rights.

over centuries, the labour move­ ment fought to establish basic rights for workers, combatting the vested interests of avaricious capital­ ists and the cynicism of the state, which consigned to the workhouse those unable to find employment in the mines and fac­ tories. through collective action in the form of trades unions, then later through the political parties that were established in their...