In the last few years, a growing number of individuals whose basic rights are violated have filed transnational human rights claims in foreign countries. By placing the individual as a holder of basic rights at the core of the process of development, the capability approach, as put forward by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, provides a fertile theoretical framework to assess translational human...

background health is a basic human right necessary for the exercise of other human rights. every human being is, therefore, entitled to the highest possible standard of health necessary to living a life of dignity. establishment of patients’ charter is a step towards protecting the rights and responsibilities of patients, but violation of patients’ rights is common in healthcare institutions, e...

Understanding the restrictions placed on religious institutions and associations, or freedoms that they are denied, is essential for understanding limits individual human rights more generally. This study uses Religion State round 3 (RAS3) dataset to track faced by organizations individuals between 1990 2014 explores how reduced institutional results in fewer freedoms. We find both common risin...