Human Rights Violations, Umbrella Concepts, and Empirical Analysis

The HIV epidemic and human rights violations in Brazil

Received 24 July 2013; Revised 23 September 2013; Accepted 9 October 2013; Published 12 November 2013 Copyright: – 2013 Malta M and Beyrer C; licensee International AIDS Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distributio...

End human rights violations against people with mental health disorders. December 10: international human rights day.

Misunderstanding and stigma surrounding mental ill health are widespread. Despite the existence of effective treatments for mental disorders, there is a belief that they are untreatable or that people with mental disorders are difficult, not intelligent, or incapable of making decisions. This stigma can lead to abuse, rejection and isolation and exclude people from health care or support. Withi...

A Paradigm Shift: Detecting Human Rights Violations Through Web Images

The growing presence of devices carrying digital cameras, such as mobile phones and tablets, combined with ever improving internet networks have enabled ordinary citizens, victims of human rights abuse, and participants in armed conflicts, protests, and disaster situations to capture and share via social media networks images and videos of specific events. This paper discusses the potential of ...

Jurisdiction for Human Rights Violations on the Internet

The lack of regional confinement is the Internet's main characteristic. Due to that the determination of jurisdiction for probable third party Human Rights violations is challenging. Existing regulations are strongly related to certain territories. This essay discusses a new approach from the US-American legal order including the aiming of the information.

The Impact of Pro-Government Militias on Human Rights Violations