Abstract This article analyses a domestic litigation matter seeking to establish accountability for air pollution-related human rights violations. It examines how the judiciary applied national and international law dismiss case on procedural grounds. argues that deserves careful reading number of reasons can be distilled into two premises. Firstly, legal framework its respective judicial inter...

Violations of human rights in wars, civil conflicts, and brutal repression mounted by governments against their own citizens often have profound consequences to individual and public health and may, in turn, produce humanitarian crises. The skills of physicians, medical and forensic scientists, and other health workers are uniquely valuable in human rights investigations and documentation, prod...

background and objective: our aim was to evaluate the prevalence and population ratio of violence in our center which is one of the tertiary referral centers of trauma in tehran. we also aimed to evaluate the motiva-tions of the struggle, the instrument used, and the type of injuries in the patients who had referred to us after a struggle. methods: in this cross-sectional retrospective study, a...

Being aggressive has been related to fearlessness, low empathy and premeditated antisocial behaviors. The current study examined how school bullies and victims respond to affective situations presented through imagery. It was hypothesized that victims would perceive fear imagery as more fearful than bullies, demonstrating their proneness to fear and high behavioral inhibition. Bullies were expe...

The medical sector presents a unique opportunity for identification and service to victims of human trafficking. In this article, we describe local and site-specific efforts to develop an intervention tool to be used in an urban hospital's emergency department in the midwestern United States. In the development of our tool, we focused on both identification and intervention to assist trafficked...

BACKGROUND The disclosure of widespread sexual abuse committed by professional educators and clergymen in institutions in Germany ignited a national political debate, in which special attention was paid to church-run institutions. We wanted to find out whether the nature of the abuse and its effect on victims differed depending on whether the abuse had been experienced in religiously affiliated...

This article focuses on the proposal to adapt international arbitration business disputes involving human rights. The Business and Human Rights (BHR arbitration) seeks give local communities who are victims of multinational corporations’ rights environmental abuses access justice in a specialized BHR tribunal. Through comparison between investor-state (ISA) arbitration, this contends that it wo...

The right of a child offender to participate effectively in criminal proceedings is fundamental aspects fair trial and guaranteed the Constitution Republic South Africa, 1996 as well international instruments, including United Nations Convention on Rights Child. An arguments made that ensuring this fully realised at domestic level, allowances should be for offenders included provisions section1...

As human beings, we all claim, crave and protect our birthrights. Even history taught us this fact through the wars rebellions of many. It is in blood. Denying these rights equivalent to challenging very own humanity. In Mauritius, proudly claim existence fundamental Constitution. Our Constitution legislations that follow, are promises safeguard as citizens Mauritius. However, same for everyone...