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In 2005, former Foreign Minister Qian Qichen put forward and defined the concept of "sports diplomacy" in his Dictionary World Diplomacy. "Sports is as "the foreign sports exchanges conducted by a country's authorities or circles for purpose promoting relations between countries." It reasonable to have different understanding cognition diplomacy. Due historical backgrounds, national rights inte...

world community is always seeking solutions and ways to improve peace and enhance development. human rights education which increases public awareness of human rights is one way for achieving peace and development. such education would result in changing society, understanding other nations and strengthening peace and prosperity. if a society grows up in all economic, social and cultural dimant...

BACKGROUND In much of the world, President George W. Bush was not admired for his foreign policy and diplomacy. It is therefore ironic that Bush's single most uncontested foreign policy triumph was an instance of what has now become known as "health diplomacy". In 2003 Bush launched the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a five-year $15 billion initiative to fight HIV/AIDS, mostly in A...

This paper addresses the general problems encountered in an analysis of EU diplomacy, and specifically the emergence of the EU ‘diplomatic system’. The first part of the paper reviews the literature on the changing nature of diplomacy, identifying issues relating to boundaries, capacity and legitimacy and paying particular attention to multi-level and multi-stakeholder diplomacy. This review th...

our commentary on forman et al paper explores their thesis that right to health language can frame global health policy responses. we examined human rights discourse in the outcome documents from three 2015 united nations (un) summits and found rights-related terms are used in all three. however, a deeper examination of the discourse finds the documents do not convey the obligations and entitle...

although intellectual property rights (iprs) in this era specially after the constitution of world trade organization (wto) have been concerned from economic and commercialization point of view, human rights perspective to iprs has been increased and so, human rights groups have highlighted certain challenges between iprs and human rights, have tried to adjust economic perspective and have soug...