shareholders of joint stock companies have several rights. the most typical categorization of shareholders' right is financial and non-financial right. every one's intention of investing in commercial companies is to make profit; hence, the most important right of shareholders is to enjoy the dividend of the company. this right is a financial one. furthermore, after dissolution of the...

THELIBRARYPROFESSION’S UNL)ERSTANDIK\‘Gof the Library Bill of Rights-and, in fact, American librarianship’s understanding of itself-is a product of both contemporary political discourse and of the American Library Association’s pragmatic responses to censorship challenges in the 1950s. Between the 1948 adoption of the strengthened Library Bill of Rights and 1960, ALA based its “library faith” o...

This article reports on the recent Uruguayan experience with the debate on sexual and reproductive rights. While the Bill for the Defense of Reproductive Health did not pass in the Senate, both the prior process and the subsequent impacts have been relevant, generating a social debate that is still incipient but has involved the mass media, academia, and the political parties and spawning a dis...

In many countries with a written constitution, constitutional development in the second half of the 20th century was dominated by concepts of human rights. For example, Canada and South Africa gained Bills of Rights* 1 while the United States saw an existing Bill of Rights expanded through judicial interpretation. In other nations, international norms and the proliferation of treaties and conve...

In 2006, Ghana passed a Disability Rights Bill which proposes that by 2016 Ghana will provide disabled persons in the country with a variety of services and equal employment opportunities. This article presents interviews conducted with community leaders from the Greater Accra region of Ghana in 2009, examining the current views of persons with disabilities in the country. Using qualitative ana...

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