Victims’ Rights in the Diversion Landscape

Cuba's quarantine of AIDS victims: a violation of human rights?

The thalidomide tragedy: the struggle for victims' rights and improved pharmaceutical regulation.

The thalidomide tragedy in the late 1950s was a watershed moment for pharmaceutical regulation. New uses for this medication are being researched and implemented today. This article revisits the history of thalidomide and its consequences for regulation and for victims' rights in Brazil, based on a literature review, documentary analysis, and newspaper reports. The events highlighted herein sho...

The Rights of Crime Victims—Does Legal Protection Make a Difference?

Discussed in this Brief: The impact of legal protection on crime victims’ rights. This survey of more than 1,300 crime victims, the largest of its kind, was conducted by the National Center for Victims of Crime to find out whether State constitutional amendments and other legal measures designed to protect crime victims’ rights have been effective. The researchers sought the views of victims in...

Property rights and landscape planning in the intermountain west: The Teton Valley case

Non-participation in landscape planning presents a formidable challenge to sustainable development. We hypothesize that even when people hold egative attitudes toward unplanned development, natural property rights values (favorable evaluations of property as an inviolable and pre-political ight) prevent them from acting on their concerns. We chose an intermountain west community as a case study...

Children, the Main Victims of Ethnic Violence in Myanmar

Human rights are the basic standards that people need to live in dignity. In addition to the rights that are available to all people, there are rights that apply only to children. Children need special rights because of their unique needs; they need additional protection that adults don’t. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is an international document that sets out all of...