The settlement of past human rights violations in Indonesia

Promoting health with human rights in Indonesia

Nafsiah Mboi tells Fiona Fleck why technical know-how, insistence on human rights and gentle persuasion were essential ingredients for the modernization of public health in Indonesia.

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...

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

Human rights violations in organ procurement practice in China

BACKGROUND Over 90% of the organs transplanted in China before 2010 were procured from prisoners. Although Chinese officials announced in December 2014 that the country would completely cease using organs harvested from prisoners, no regulatory adjustments or changes in China's organ donation laws followed. As a result, the use of prisoner organs remains legal in China if consent is obtained. ...