Protecting Trafficked Persons through Refugee Protection

The International Politics of Refugee Protection

This article shows that the refugee burdens among Western states are also very unequally distributed and that this constitutes a problem not only for individual states, but also for the EU as whole. It argues that despite many obstacles, the development of regional or international burdensharing regimes is indeed desirable. Attempts to explain or justify steps towards such a system do not have ...

Council for international organizations of medical sciences perspectives: protecting persons through international ethics guidelines

The purpose of guidelines in the field of medical ethics is to help physicians to make the best decisions or follow the right course of action in difficult medical situations. For other guidelines, the purpose is to help investigators, sponsors and Institutional Review Boards (IRB) or the equivalent to design, support or approve only studies involving human beings that fulfil a set of condition...

Queering the Support for Trafficked Persons: LGBTQ Communities and Human Trafficking in the Heartland

Human trafficking justice centers on the “Three Ps” model of prevention, protection, and prosecution. While protection and prosecution efforts have been moderately successful, prevention remains elusive, as “upstream” structural factors— class, gender, and sexuality inequalities—remain difficult to target. Individuals who are affected by these factors are not fully served within linear service ...

Public Health Equity in Refugee and Other Displaced Persons Settings

Protecting the patient is our protection

Editorial | Dermatol Pract Concept 2013;4(1):1 1 Optimization and securing of medical practices and procedures has always been very challenging in medicine. However, the real-life clinical settings continue to pose various hazards that may lead medical professionals to unintended mistakes. Pathologists feel particularly responsible and are very concerned about diagnostic discrepancies or even m...