Individuals' rights and wrongs

Minor rights and wrongs.

ly and to consider cause and effect relationships,... [yet] has had little experience in applying these skills to decisions in a more autonomous manner."-' As a result, adolescents experience a chronic disjuncture caused by varying levels of biological development, cognitive ability, and experiential knowledge. Rather than mistaking one of these markers, such as cognitive ability, as indicative...

Citizen’s Income: Rights and Wrongs

A Citizen’s Income, or a Basic Income, is not a new idea but it has been receiving increasing attention. There is confusion about the idea and an attempt is made to distinguish different concepts. Then a full Citizen’s Income is examined in relation to four key criteria: the justice of an unconditional benefit; the possibility and fairness of a simple individual benefit; economic efficiency; an...

Introduction: ‘Honour’, Rights and Wrongs

This volume arises out of documentation and reflection by individuals and organisations across diverse regions, communities and cultures on existing and potential strategies of response to ‘crimes of honour’, seen primarily as a manifestation of violence against women, and a violation of women’s human rights. It was catalysed in particular by the murder of two young women, Samia Sarwar in Pakis...

The Rights and Wrongs of Prostitution

This essay critically explores contemporary Euro-American feminist debate on prostitution. It argues that to develop analyses relevant to the experience of more than just a small minority of “First World” women, those who are concerned with prostitution as a form of work need to look beyond liberal discourse on property and contractual consent for ways of conceptualizing the rights and wrongs o...

Human rights and wrongs: could health impact assessment help?