Organizations, national governments and supranational bodies have all been active in formulating measures to regulate access to internet content. This paper reports the findings of a documentary analysis of such measures adopted over a 10-year period by the European Union. The investigation took place from a perspective of concern for the potential impact of such initiatives on freedom of expre...

This paper examines palliative care within the human rights in patient care framework, which clarifies state obligations and addresses the rights of both patients and providers. In the context of palliative care, these rights extend beyond the right to health and include patient rights to freedom from torture, cruel and inhuman treatment, non-discrimination and equality, bodily integrity, priva...

The article traces the institutional and political evolution of US implementing its concept international religious freedom from 1998 to 2020. became popular after end Cold War when defense religion against socialistatheist ideas had lost relevance due (the collapse Eastern bloc) cultural growing importance in many non-Western countries world) reasons. starts by reviewing history emergence deve...

In the 2014 case Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the US Supreme Court ruled that the contraceptive mandate promulgated under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act violated privately held, for-profit corporations? right to religious freedom. In 2012, the US Department of Health and Human Services [2] issued the contraception [3] mandate, which required that employerprovided health insurance pla...

Mobile commerce (m-commerce) is marking the start of new era of innovation in business. M-commerce will continue to extend the way organizations conduct business – and change the relationships between companies, customers, suppliers and partners. Mobility means freedom – say Keen and Macintosh – and freedom creates choice and value, something much more than convenience as it may revolutionize t...

In the 2014 case Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the US Supreme Court ruled that the contraceptive mandate promulgated under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act violated privately held, for-profit corporations? right to religious freedom. In 2012, the US Department of Health and Human Services [2] issued the contraception [3] mandate, which required that employerprovided health insurance pla...

This paper proposes a theory of imperative regimes of regulated freedom as they relate to the development of policy for Information Communication Technology. Policy is characterized here as an imperative regime of regulated freedom, guiding people in both objective (regulated reasoning) and subjective (heuristic commonsense freedom) decision making to guide communities’ to achieve needed work o...

Rejecting the Obama Administration’s argument that First Amendment requires identical treatment for religious organizations and secular organizations, Supreme Court held such a “result is hard to square with text of itself, which gives special solicitude rights organizations.” (Hosanna-Tabor, 565 U.S. at 189). This “special solicitude” guarantees freedom from government in all aspects society, ...

Information routinely collected by health care organizations is used by researchers to analyze the causes of illness and evaluate the effectiveness of potential cures. Medical information sharing systems are built to encourage hospitals to contribute patient data for use in clinical studies. These organizations possess a wide variety of environments and risk assessments, and require sufficient ...