Labor Rights in East Asia: Progress or Regress?

[Pharmacotherapy of Parkinson's disease: progress or regress?].

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic, progressive disease of the central nervous system (CNS), characterized by a slow loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra, leading to significant decrease in dopamine (DA) levels in the striatum. Currently used drugs, such as levodopa (L-DOPA), amantadine, dopamine agonists (D) or anticholinergic drugs, are not effective enough, and do not elim...

Destigmatization of Hiv: Progress or Regress?

The HIV epidemic has resulted in a renewed interest by social scientists in stigmatization and in a corresponding need to reconceptualize stigma, especially its relationship to power. While the professions have some power to control stigma, the emergence of self-help and mutual aid groups such as those founded by the gay activists involved in the AIDS epidemic, has shown that patients are not s...

Regional con icts over mineral rights in South East Asia

Several of the ongoing con icts in South East Asia are internal disputes driven by con icts over revenues from mineral projects. In order to understand these con icts it is necessary to study the sharing arrangements between regions within countries. This paper looks at typical regional wealth-sharing arrangements to determine when such arrangements are likely to break down and when con icts er...

Economic Development and Political Human Rights in East Asia

Commentary: Sexual health and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Progress or backlash?

The Middle East/North Africa region is diverse in many respects, including, among others, the level of development (United Nations Development Program [UNDP], 2013), legal codes and secular versus religious state leadership. Health disparities are enormous, as indicated by maternal mortality ratios, which range from 7 in Qatar to 200 in Yemen (World Health Organization [WHO], United Nations Chi...