Today, paying attention to patients' rights and their satisfaction with quality and medical care is one of the most important priorities. Observing patient's rights, informing them and sharing them in decision-making, is greatly effective in improving patients. Hence, Iran's health care system has made a decree to this end. The purpose of the present paper is to analyze the extent to which the ...

The relationship between “rights” and “obligations” is one of an inseparable nature. In the same way that “human rights” are perceived as being distinct from “citizenship rights”, “duties” and “obligations” of individuals as human beings are distinguishable from their obligations as citizens. The present paper presupposes the ties between rights and obligations to apply to any individual and “s...

Imam Ali (a) in his speeches and letters of which some can be seen in Naj-Albalaghe, describing mutual rights and duties of governors and citizens, has always emphasized them. He knows government as an opportunity for approximating God. Imam, therefore, addresses his officials to perform political, social, economical and cultural rights of citizens and asks citizen to be loyal to their allegian...

Within the framework of human rights, one can conceive of the vague concept of inherent dignity on the basis of the concept of "normative subjectivity " and, on the basis of the role of human rights in protecting the personality, one can find a way for understanding of what human rights are there and what is their its implications. In contrast, within the framework of the rights of citizens, ba...