Towards a Theory of Legal Animal Rights: Simple and Fundamental Rights

Knowledge and Attitude of Midwifery Students towards Observing the Ethical and Legal Standards of Patients' Rights

Background & aim: In the midwifery profession, observing legal and ethical issues in professional practices should be emphasized. Legal and ethical advancements in the realm of midwifery have raised the need for midwives’ awareness as to patient rights. This study was performed to evaluate midwifery students’ knowledge and attitude towards observing the ethical and legal standards of patient ri...

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, ...

BFHI: a step towards protecting fundamental rights of newborns.

Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand and Turkey. According to the figures available from UNICEF(2) by end of 1994 there were 300 hospitals certified as baby friendly in these countries. The initiative spread to other countries from 1993 onwards, and now it has spread to 171 countries in the world. It has been picking up momentum and during the last five years, each year has b...

Reasoning with fundamental rights

People often withdraw previously drawn conclusions in light of new information. This defeasible reasoning is also important for law, where judges often have to change their verdicts in light of new evidence. Here we investigate defeasibility in the context of conflicting fundamental rights. When, for instance, law to property conflicts with law to information, can one of these rights be “defeat...

The issue of animal rights and human rights.