Human rights are the basic standards that people need to live in dignity.  In addition to the rights that are available to all people, there are rights that apply only to children.  Children need special rights because of their unique needs;  they need additional protection that adults don’t.  The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is an international document that sets out al...

“Why workers’ rights are not women’s rights” is an argument whose purpose is to make clear why workers’ rights rest on a masculine embodiment of the labor subject and it is this masculine embodiment which is at the center of employment contracts and employment relations systems. By excavating the gender subjects implicit to and explicit in regulations of labor, the paper reveals the opposition ...

Digital Rights Protection (DRP) is the broad class of technological, legal, and other regulatory means used to protect the rights of the owners of digital content, while simultaneously protecting the usage rights and the privacy of the users. This article briefly discusses the technological aspect of the issue.

The aim of this study was to explore the knowledge and perception of specific patients' rights and the problems experienced with their fulfilment among the Belgian population. Participants were recruited through patient association groups and health insurance companies. They completed an Internet-based questionnaire with 20 questions concerning patients' rights. In total, 309 persons completed ...

AS THE MILLENNIUM APPROACHES, THE HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM IN THE United States remains in a period of transformation. The commercialization of medicine has challenged the professional dominance of physicians. Corporate organizations emerged under the assumption that the principles that defined US industry were applicable to health care. They offered efficiency through vertical and horizonta...

[It] must be remembered that legislatures are ultimate guardians of the liberties and welfare of the people in quite as great a degree as the courts.'

abstract the penal legal procedure is a certain mechanism to find out the crime with respect to the behavior of the accused and the guilty. this mechanism must ensure the principles which guarantee justice and fairness, and provide the individual rights and freedoms that are the extreme goal of every just fair legal procedure. so in the proper execution of islamic commands, the necessity of obs...

In the next 20 years, substantial increases are predicted for cancer incidence, mortality, and morbidity— particularly in countries such as China, India, and Nigeria—precipitating a potential global epidemic of cancer. The trajectory of cancer in Europe is also increasing substantially, fuelled in part by changes in population structure that will lead to an unparalleled increase in the over-65 ...