background: ethical standards of nursing profession emphasize that taking care of patients, showing respectful behavior, and preserving patients’ human dignity are important nursing priorities. furthermore, since time immemorial, humanistic thinkers have always paid close attention to the issues of humanity and human dignity. despite the emphasis of nursing texts on the importance of preserving...

In recent years there have been reports of the Department HomeAffairs changing women’s surnames to that their husbands upon theconclusion a marriage without married consent. Thisconduct by Home Affairs officials infringes, as thisarticle will argue, not only on affected right justadministrative action but also rights equality and dignity and,in some instances, freedom movement universal suffrag...