Towards a Natural Law Foundationalist Theory of Universal Human Rights

AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS LAW JOURNAL Ubuntu as a moral theory and human rights in South Africa

There are three major reasons why ideas associated with ubuntu are often deemed to be an inappropriate basis for a public morality in today’s South Africa. One is that they are too vague; a second is that they fail to acknowledge the value of individual freedom; and a third is that they fit traditional, small-scale culture more than a modern, industrial society. In this article, I provide a phi...

Ethical Theory of Utilitarianism and Human Rights Development

Background: Utilitarianism is a school whose founders have justified it by emphasizing consequentialism as a public interest. The school of utilitarianism is a moral and naturalistic school that justifies principles such as justice and individual and collective freedoms. For utilitarian, one cannot rely solely on individual interests and neglect the collective interest or group interest. Human ...

Combating Illegal Organ Transplantation Under International Human Rights Law

Despite the fact that the concepts of organ transplantation and organ trafficking seem two completely distinct categories at first glance, sometimes they overlap with each other. This is especially in cases in which organ transplantation occurs from one country to another and for a financial exchange. There are two general indicators for determining the distinction between organ transplantation...

Human rights and bioethics: the universal declaration of human rights and UNESCO universal declaration of bioethics and human rights.

Towards a Theory of Online Social Rights

Legitimacy, defined as fairness plus public good, is a proposed necessary online and physical community requirement,. As Fukuyama notes, legitimate societies tend to prosper, while others ignore legitimacy at their peril. Online communities are social-technical systems (STS), built upon social requirements as well as technical ones like bandwidth. As technical problems are increasingly solved, ...