investigates complaints incoming to the medical council of west azarbaijan province during 1385 to 1389     hemmati maslakpak m [1] , baghaie r [2] , yosefi m [3] ,ghavami h [4] *     received: 9 dec , 2012 accepted: 18 feb , 2013     abstract:   background & aims : increased complaints from the medical team and medical staff, and increased risk of therapeutic measures in recent years, was the ...

The Sudanese soldiers and the Janjawid invaded her village. When she tried to escape, they gang-raped her. At that time, she was eight months pregnant and described giving birth to a dead baby afterward and being very sick. She could not make it with her group to the border to flee to Chad so she had to walk alone. Once she got to Chad, she was raped by a Chadian soldier outside of the camp and...

Latin America’s indigenous women are as diverse as the land they inhabit. Their uniqueness is shaped by belonging to groups that have their own distinct history, traditions, and identity. Yet despite this diversity, indigenous women confront the same human rights challenges: racial, gender, and socio-economic discrimination. Without ignoring the diversity of indigenous women, a better understan...

Correspondence to Janani Muhunthan; jmuhunthan@georgeinstitute. org.au In November 2015, Australia completed its second Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a high level United Nations Human Rights Council (UN HRC)-led peer review conducted by UN Member States once every 4 years. The UPR is a bold innovation in international diplomacy as it is the only mechanism of its kind for scrutinising the hum...