in the framework of international law, the right to food is a fundamentalright of person towards having sustainable access to food with the qualitywhich responds to his/her food needs. with due respect to the specialposition of states in international law, it is importance to examine theirobligations regarding the right to food. the principal question is that whatconstitutes the legal basis of ...

174 Care Management Journals • Volume 14, Number 3 • 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1521-0987.14.3.174 Although, historically, ageing has not been a major focus at the UN since its founding, older persons and ageing issues have been specifically recognized by the UN in a number of documents, events, and programs as well as implicitly in others. Insofar as UN documents are concerned, older perso...

The evolution of international standards on child rights 1924 The League of Nations adopts the Geneva Declaration on the Rights of the Child. The declaration establishes children’s rights to means for material, moral and spiritual development; special help when hungry, sick, disabled or orphaned; first call on relief when in distress; freedom from economic exploitation; and an upbringing that ...

Microblogging websites, especially Twitter have become an important means of communication, in todays time. Often these services have been found to be faster than conventional news services. With millions of users, a need was felt to classify users based on ambient metadata associated with their user accounts. We particularly look at the effectiveness of the ‘profile description’ field in order...

In a model of dual agency problems where borrower-lender and bank-nonbank incentives may conflict, we predict a hockey stick relation between bank skin in the game and covenant tightness. As bank participation declines covenant tightness increases until reaching a low threshold, at which point the relation sharply reverses and covenant protection is removed with a commensurate increase in sprea...

Since 1977, the popularity of the limited liability company (“LLC”) has grown tremendously, overtaking the corporation and the partnership as the preferred business structure in many jurisdictions. Amidst this growth in popularity, a legal debate has sparked concerning the existence, nature, and extent of the fiduciary and contractual duties owed in the LLC context. Drafters of LLC agreements c...

the verse on “the world of primal covenant (‘alam al-zarr)” is among difficult quranic verses whose difficulty can be discovered by consideration of different opinions, which are sometimes opposite to one another, presented by quranic commentators. having accepted the existence of “the world of primal covenant,” mulla sadra has interpreted and expounded that world in accordance with his philoso...