Is Closure Still Possible for the Marcos Human Rights Victims?

Human versus Inalienable Rights: Is there still a future for online protest in the Anonymous world?

The protection of legitimate political protest is one of the hallmarks of a functional liberal democracy. Certainly, there is increasing legal debate about the parameters of what constitutes legitimate protest and the appropriate scope of police powers to regulate it. However, there is no widespread call for the dismantling of the concept of a right to protest. The same consensus is not present...

"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...

Cuba's quarantine of AIDS victims: a violation of human rights?

Is closure of atrial septal defects in adults still controversial?

We would like to thank T. Ebels for taking interest in our manuscript in an editorial comment and are happy to further elaborate on our view regarding the closure of atrial septal defects in adults [1,2]. We agree with T. Ebels that defining which patients to treat— with regard to shunt size, defect size and haemodynamic importance—is an interesting and difficult task. He questioned how our pat...

Cardiac arrest: survivors or still victims?

Worldwide, out-of-hospital cardiac arrest remains a lifelosing proposition for the vast majority of its victims. In the United States, prehospital emergency medical services (EMS) personnel attend an estimated 273 000 persons with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (defined as circulatory or pulseless collapse) each year.1 Survival to hospital discharge from all presenting rhythms of cardiac arrest...