Human rights, international human rights, and sovereign political authority: a draft model for understanding contemporary human rights

"Human Rights"؛ "Citizen Rights"؛ "Human Rights Declaration"؛ " Middle Eastern States"

حقوق بشر و حقوق شهروندی از حقوق ذاتی و طبیعی انسان نشأت گرفته و در طول تاریخ بین اندیشمندان مناطق مختلف جهان و همچنین در مکاتب الهی توجه خاصی به آنها شده است. اما متاسفانه تا پایان جنگ جهانی دوم حقوق بشر بصورت گسترده اقبالی کسب ننمود. اگر چه با اعلامیه جهانی حقوق بشر سال 1948 و دیگر کنوانسیون های مربوطه، حقوق بشر شکل جهان شمولی بخود گرفته ولی هنوز بسیاری از دولتهای خاورمیانه حاضر به پذیرش تمامی...

Red Reason and Green Rights Illuminationist.Anthropology and Human Rights

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...

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...

THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY Project on Social Control and Human Rights Research Paper (Final Draft) PUBLIC HEALTH & SOCIAL CONTROL: IMPLICATIONS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

1. On April 24, 2009 the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it had received reports from the United States and Mexico about a new form of swine influenza, Type A (H1N1). Although the confirmed cases in the United States were relatively mild, the reports from Mexico were more alarming. Fifty-nine individuals, most of whom had been young and healthy, were dead in Mexico City alone.1 A...