Preferences are Public Rights

Women's rights are human rights.

The US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala, challenged the world to live up to the affirmation made in Cairo: that women's rights are human rights. The US has responded to this affirmation with vigor by recognizing that when given knowledge, education, opportunity, and power, women can be heroines; they can move mountains to help themselves and the others whom they are de...

Why Workers’ Rights Are Not Women’s Rights

“Why workers’ rights are not women’s rights” is an argument whose purpose is to make clear why workers’ rights rest on a masculine embodiment of the labor subject and it is this masculine embodiment which is at the center of employment contracts and employment relations systems. By excavating the gender subjects implicit to and explicit in regulations of labor, the paper reveals the opposition ...

Privacy Rights and Public Families

Introduction: The Right to Privacy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 I. The New York State Prenatal Care Assistance Program . . . . 124 R A. Nutritional Risk Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 R B. Psychosocial Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 R C. Additional Required Consultations . . . . . ....

Public Libraries and Human Rights

[Tuberculosis and public health: ¿individual rights or collective rights?].

Tuberculosis (TB) persists as a major public health problem in our country. The appearance of resistant strains has complicated its control and questioned the appropriateness of the current measures towards prevention and control. An analysis from social determinants related to TB, converge on irregular treatment that generates disease persistence and appearance of resistance to TB drugs. The o...