With efforts paid by the international community to protect human rights, some area and effective factors in accomplishing human rights have been recognized. Right to highest attainable standards of health that called as the right to health is one of the recognized human rights that its importance has been emphasized on by Human Rights Instruments. Individual health has been counted as one of t...

Backgrounds: Rights of patients with mental disorders are violated in many different ways, and since these patients comprise the most vulnerable section of the society, defending their rights is imperative. Knowledge of psychiatrists and all those involved with these patients of relevant laws plays an influential role in advancing treatment, legal, and humane objectives. Aims: This study aimed ...

Background and aim: According to the theory of Multiple Modernities, Western modernity is reinterpreted in non-Western cultures and civilizations, and it paves the way for the creation of diverse modernities in different cultures. Since the confrontation with the modern West, the Iranian elites have tried to present an Iranian and Islamic interpretation of various elements of Western modernity....

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...

The cultural rights is a new branch of the legal studies whose literature have been developed gradually during 1970s as a global spectrum of accepted rights namely from the time when the cultural development was set forwarded in general management issues and national and international level and was noted as a fundamental right by the UN and its affiliated commissions, UNESCO, international and ...

In the area of citizenship rights studies people living with HIV/AIDS constitute a range of citizens who are deprived of the status of which every citizens deserves because of undue social stigma as infected or immoral people. In the view of traditional believe and negative perceptions about people living with HIV/AIDS penetrated to other citizens minds and putting together with the factors led...