Background In this presentation, the presenter will explore a number of basic rights to be expressly protected under the Human Rights Charter (HRC), passed in 2006 by the Victorian Parliament, analyze the impact of the HRC and the issues faced by the Mental Health Review Board of Victoria (MHRB) and Victorian mental health service providers under the Victorian Mental Health Act 1986 (MHA), and ...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 65, No. 2, 2016 (“Libraries in the Political Process,” edited by Christine Stilwell, Peter Johan Lor, and Raphaëlle Bats), pp. 198–216. © 2016 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract The rhetoric of public librarianship includes many ringing claims for the role of libraries in democracy; and, on the twenty-first anniversary of democracy in South Africa, it is...

As we mark the 15-month anniversary of the physician charter that was published simultaneously in Annals of Internal Medicine and The Lancet in 2002 (1, 2), the members of the Medical Professionalism Project are pleased by the level of interest and activity the charter has engendered. Several hundred U.S. and international newspapers cited the charter in related stories; more than 70 radio, tel...

SUMMARY At the height of COVID-19 pandemic many African countries barred people, including citizens and foreign nationals, from entering or leaving their territories. This was case although article 12(2) Charter on Human Peoples' Rights provides that '[ejvery individual shall have right to leave any country his own, return country'. However, also '[t]his may only be subject restrictions, provid...

INTRODUCTION To supply quality services and healthcare, it is evident that medical ethics and patients' rights, while providing medical and healthcare services need to be observed. This study was conducted to evaluate observance of the Patients' Rights Charter among medical staff of educational hospitals affiliated to Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. METHODS This cross-sectional study ...