Iranian Judiciary Facing Human Rights Norms or Islamic Criteria

Norms, Power, and Human Rights

If there is one field within the study of international affairs where progress has undeniably been made over the past two decades, it surely is the study of human rights, which has grown from a marginal enterprise in which only a few scholars were engaged to a full-blown subfield of international affairs that attracts some of the most talented scholars publishing in the most prestigious outlets...

"Human Rights"؛ "Citizen Rights"؛ "Human Rights Declaration"؛ " Middle Eastern States"

حقوق بشر و حقوق شهروندی از حقوق ذاتی و طبیعی انسان نشأت گرفته و در طول تاریخ بین اندیشمندان مناطق مختلف جهان و همچنین در مکاتب الهی توجه خاصی به آنها شده است. اما متاسفانه تا پایان جنگ جهانی دوم حقوق بشر بصورت گسترده اقبالی کسب ننمود. اگر چه با اعلامیه جهانی حقوق بشر سال 1948 و دیگر کنوانسیون های مربوطه، حقوق بشر شکل جهان شمولی بخود گرفته ولی هنوز بسیاری از دولتهای خاورمیانه حاضر به پذیرش تمامی...

Preserving rights for individuals facing guardianship.

Facing Political Power in Islamic Ethics

The present article looks at the control of political power through the lens of Islamic ethics, which distinguishes between the two approaches of direct and indirect criticism by examining some ethical texts. In these texts, the direct critique of power, on the one hand, is necessary to correct the state of society; but on the other hand, given its enormous dangers, it is advisable to avoid it....

Globalization and Human Rights: Help or Hindrance

VASUDHAIVA KUTUMBAKAM, this world is one family, is an ancient and core part of Indian philosophy. Strange, that globalization is often portrayed as a recent western imposition on India and the world. Goods and people have moved across the globe for centuries, infact, far more easily than now. Neither passports nor visas were required, and traders, pilgrims and adventurers moved around without ...