The attention given to bioethics and biolaw has grown throughout the decades in framework of European Union, since first steps were taken field medical products, with adoption Council Directive 65/65/EEC. Moving from EU Treaties, which provide legal bases for biorights as well some potentially competing principles interests, four freedoms, this study adopts a human rights-based approach assesse...

Abstract In 2019, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights adopted General Comment No 5 Charter Rights: The Right to Freedom of Movement Residence (Article 12(1)). this general comment, commission elaborated right freedom movement residence within state borders. This issue, while explicit in international human rights law, is a challenge various jurisdictions, including Africa. artic...

BACKGROUND Based on practices in commercial organizations and public services, healthcare organizations are using service charters to inform patients about the quality of service they can expect and to increase patient-centeredness. In the Netherlands, an integrated regional stroke service involving five organizations has developed and implemented a single service charter. The purpose of this s...

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...

In February 2016, the Canadian Supreme Court argued in a unanimous decision that criminal statutes prohibiting physician-assisted or -directed termination violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In the unanimous judgment, they argued that the promise of "life, liberty, and sanctity of person" in s. 7 enshrined patient choice as a principal Canadian virtue. But for choice to be real, that r...