Human Rights Violations and Public Support for Sanctions

The United States Sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran; from Unilateralism to Violations of International Human Rights

Today, the global system is formed based on multilateralism, which is based on international relations and the origin of international organizations and institutions. But this matter is endangered by the unilateralism pursued by the United States of America. Coercive unilateral measures such as sanctions, threats, military intervention, and even measures such as withdrawal from international tr...

Jurisdiction for Human Rights Violations on the Internet

The lack of regional confinement is the Internet's main characteristic. Due to that the determination of jurisdiction for probable third party Human Rights violations is challenging. Existing regulations are strongly related to certain territories. This essay discusses a new approach from the US-American legal order including the aiming of the information.

Public Libraries and Human Rights

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...

End human rights violations against people with mental health disorders. December 10: international human rights day.

Misunderstanding and stigma surrounding mental ill health are widespread. Despite the existence of effective treatments for mental disorders, there is a belief that they are untreatable or that people with mental disorders are difficult, not intelligent, or incapable of making decisions. This stigma can lead to abuse, rejection and isolation and exclude people from health care or support. Withi...