Living in Public Space: A Human Rights Wasteland?

Public Libraries and Human Rights

"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...

Is Human Rights Prepared? Risk, Rights and Public Health Emergencies

A new force seems to be at work in public health law and practice. Consider, for example, the proliferation of references to ‘preparedness’; specifically, ‘public health emergency preparedness’ and its more specialised variants such as ‘public health emergency legal preparedness’ and ‘international legal preparedness’. There is also increasing use of related phrases such as ‘global public healt...

Environmental Protection, Public Health and Human Rights

Bioterrorism, public health, and human rights.

It is unnecessary and counterproductive to sacrifice basic human rights to respond to bioterrorism. Constructive public health legislation, which must be federal, cannot be carefully drafted under panic conditions. When it is, like the "model act," it will predictably rely on broad, arbitrary state authority exercised without public accountability. Public health should resist reverting to its n...