The social contract has been about rights and responsibilities in human societies. Facebook and its role in manufacturing and sustaining a global social contract, a new “we” is clearly one of the research areas that needs more attention. A new “we” is coming of age in the new age of connectivity and communication with a new outlook toward responsibility and rights at individual and collective l...

today’s civil law faced new challenges and situations for protecting human in role of consumer and also attention to industrial life growing made new branch of law called consumer law that have some positive result in all economic, social and political aspects like increasing household income, reduce conflict and tension between buyer and seller in society and increased public participation i...

some legal systems recognize a general right to personality from which all concrete rights of personality flow or special laws about some of instances of this right has been adopted. others have developed a wide-ranging protection of personality rights on the basis of general delictual principles. intermixture of intangible rights to personality and human rights arises this question whether for...

background health policies are important instruments for improving population health. however, experience suggests that policies designed for the whole population do not always benefit the most vulnerable. participation of vulnerable groups in the policy-making process provides an opportunity for them to influence decisions related to their health, and also to exercise their rights. this paper ...

Background: Observance of human rights standards and adherence to ethical principles and foundations prevents the vulnerability of governments to foreign decisions and guarantees the independence of countries in a world where interdependence is one of its characteristics. Governments, while having legal legitimacy, must also enjoy moral legitimacy. Otherwise, international organizations and oth...

At the KOFF Roundtable on Challenges for Human Rights Defenders: Reflections from Nepal, three inputs were made by Dipendra Jha, Advocate of Supreme Court of Nepal and Chairman of Terai Human Rights Defenders Alliance, Martin Stürzinger from the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Human Security Division and Anna Leissing from the Centre for Peacebuilding KOFF. The roundtable highlight...