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UN Strategies To Promote Human Rights Of Women Not As Successful As Claimed
The United Nations' strategies to increase gender equality in the field of human rights have increased our knowledge of the situation of women, but in the meantime the variety of violations has become invisible. This is one of the findings of a doctoral dissertation in international law written by Sari Kouvo of the School of Economics and... view more... (2004-08-17)
Study: Health undervalued in reproductive rights debate
Women's health is increasingly undervalued in conflicts over reproductive rights, including clashes based on moral objections under so-called conscience clauses, a new study by a University of Illinois legal expert found. view more (2009-04-02)
New £1m Research Centre for the study of Law, Gender And Sexuality
A £1m Research Centre for the study of Law, Gender and Sexuality is being launched on 24 September 2004 at the University of Kent. The first research centre to focus on these areas in the UK, it is the result of a partnership between Kent, Keele and Westminster Universities, and will bring together academic expertise to develop understanding... view more... (2004-09-15)
Iraqi officials study human rights at The University of Nottingham
Leading representatives of Iraq's fledgling justice system are studying human rights at The University of Nottingham. view more (2005-02-22)
The Observatory of Bioethics and Law (OBD) publishes a document on sexual health in adolescence
The increase in abortions, especially among teenagers, together with the rise in the number of HIV infections, many of which occur during adolescence, has led the Observatory of Bioethics and Law (OBD) to publish a "Document on Sexual and Reproductive Health in Adolescence". This analyses the causes of new behavioral patterns related to... view more... (2002-09-18)
Psychologists focus on Human Rights
Psychologists will stress their support for Human Rights and their condemnation of any form of torture at a psychology and Human Rights meeting, between 2pm and 5pm on Wednesday 30 March 2005. view more (2005-03-21)
Abortion-Rights and Anti-Abortion Groups Share Some Values
People with strong views on abortion and other controversial issues tend to exaggerate differences of opinion they have with their opponents, a new University of Florida study finds. view more (2006-01-27)
British Psychological Society Colloquium on Human Rights
PRESS INVITATION THIS HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED Mary Warnock is a keynote speaker at a Colloquium on Human Rights held today, Thursday 4 October, at the Mental Health Foundation, 20/21 Cornwall Terrace, London NW1. The Colloquium is organised by The British Psychological Society's Special Group of Psychologists and Social Services. In her talk on the... view more... (2001-09-20)
Cross-Border Litigation over European Patents
The Intellectual Property Rights Helpdesk has placed on its website a new briefing paper on Cross-Border Litigation over European Patents. The paper written by the IPR-Helpdesk legal team can be found at the following URL http://www.ipr-helpdesk.org/updates In cases of infringement, patents serve their purpose only if they are actually enforced... view more... (2000-04-09)
Advice from research: market visiting rights to Antarctica
Tourism on Antarctica is increasing and that can form a threat for the vulnerable South Pole area. Research from Maastricht University provides a possible solution: market the visitor rights to the highest bidder. view more (2008-09-29)
Conflict or harmony in the welfare state?
The Swedish welfare state is usually seen as being one of the most generous in the world. But when it comes to certain individual rights, such as the rights of patients in health care, Swedish citizens seem to be less well provided for. Why is this so? And why has the British welfare state, one that is seen as being much less generous than the... view more... (2003-05-08)
Study of Scottish Male Reproductive Health
A group of scientists and doctors from the Medical Research Council's Reproductive Biology Unit in Edinburgh are collaborating with colleagues in Public Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, in a study which forms part of a three year research programme on male reproductive health, jointly funded by the UK Department of Health, Department... view more... (1999-09-07)
THE TORTUROUS ROAD TO DEMOCRACY-DOMESTIC CRISIS IN NEPAL (p 752)
A Health and Human Rights article in this week's issue of THE LANCET documents the increasing use of torture on criminal suspects and political opponents in Nepal, a country embroiled in civil unrest between state police and a well-armed and established Maoist opposition force. Philip Stevenson describes how the long-term physical, social, and... view more... (2001-08-29)
Irresponsible use of fertility techniques will jeopardise the future of reproductive medicine warns new ESHRE president
Lausanne, Switzerland: The new president of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology has warned that the future of reproductive medicine and the hopes of infertile couples could be put in jeopardy by the abusive use of fertility techniques. Professor Hans Evers from Academisch Ziekenhuis, Maastricht in the Netherlands, who takes... view more... (2001-07-04)
Is the future of the welfare state really a human rights issue?
Arguments that social and welfare support should be seen as part of the human rights agenda are not backed by popular opinion or the views of those directly involved in this field, according to new research sponsored by the ESRC. A study led by Dr Hartley Dean, at the Universities of Luton and Nottingham, found working-age adults and social... view more... (2004-03-22)
APA letter to Bush: New policy limits psychologist involvement in interrogations
The American Psychological Association sent a letter today to President Bush, informing him of a significant change in the association's policy that limits the roles of psychologists in certain unlawful detention settings where the human rights of detainees are violated, such as has occurred at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and at... view more... (2008-10-03)
South African policy on adolescents' rights to access condoms is causing confusion
In 2007, South Africa's new Children's Act came into effect, granting children 12 years and older a host of rights relating to reproductive health, including the right to access condoms. view more (2009-01-21)
Human clones: New U.N. analysis lays out world's choices
The world community quickly needs to reach a compromise that outlaws reproductive cloning or prepare to protect the rights of cloned individuals from potential abuse, prejudice and discrimination, according to authors of a new policy analysis by the United Nations University's Institute of Advanced Studies (www.ias.unu.edu). view more (2007-11-12)
British Academy Awards
A British Academy award may sound like an Oscar, but it is in fact a prestigious grant given to outstanding academics to assist with their research. The purpose of the award is to allow them time to undertake or complete a programme of research, while relieved of their normal teaching and administrative commitments. Two academics at the University... view more... (2002-04-12)
HUMAN RIGHTS - ANGOLA'S SUFFERING BEHIND A PRETENCE OF NORMALITY (p 2093)
The Angolan government must commit to rebuilding the country's health-care infrastructure for its population that has been war-torn for a quarter of a century and facing increasing medical needs, concludes a human rights article in this week's issue of THE LANCET. Nathan Ford and colleagues from Me'decins Sans Frontie'res (MSF) report on the... view more... (2000-12-13)
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