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Understanding Menstrual Hygiene Management and Human Rights [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The practitioner's guide explains how women's and girls' ability to manage their menstruation hygienically, and with normalcy and dignity, enables women and girls to enjoy certain human rights.

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Structural biology of ferritin nanocages

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Ferritin is a conserved iron‐storage protein that sequesters iron as a ferric mineral core within a nanocage, protecting cells from oxidative damage and maintaining iron homeostasis. This review discusses ferritin biology, structure, and function, and highlights recent cryo‐EM studies revealing mechanisms of ferritinophagy, cellular iron uptake, and ...
Eloise Mastrangelo, Flavio Di Pisa
wiley   +1 more source

Fact Finding Report of Violation of the Rights of Workers at Washing Unit of Fibre & Fabrics International Pvt. Ltd. (FFI), Peenya Industrial Area, Bangalore [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Fact finding report conducted by GATWU through various social, human rights and women’s rights organizations and social activists on Fibre & Fabrics International (FFI), a private garment manufacturing company in ...
Garment and Textile Workers Union (GATWU)
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Challenges in ‘translating’ human rights: perceptions and practices of civil society actors in western India [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Rights-based approaches have become prevalent in development rhetoric and programmes in countries such as India, yet little is known about their impact on development practice on the ground.
Heitmeyer, Carolyn, Unnithan, Maya
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Organ‐specific redox imbalances in spinal muscular atrophy mice are partially rescued by SMN antisense oligonucleotides

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
We identified a systemic, progressive loss of protein S‐glutathionylation—detected by nonreducing western blotting—alongside dysregulation of glutathione‐cycle enzymes in both neuronal and peripheral tissues of Taiwanese SMA mice. These alterations were partially rescued by SMN antisense oligonucleotide therapy, revealing persistent redox imbalance as ...
Sofia Vrettou, Brunhilde Wirth
wiley   +1 more source

Los derechos humanos y el consentimiento informado en la práctica clínica: Más allá del derecho a la salud

open access: yesRevista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública
Proporcionar una atención médica es un proceso complejo que requiere de un estricto respeto de los derechos humanos. En países como el Perú, a pesar de contar con normas y leyes específicas, el ejercicio de la autonomía del paciente no es común y ...
Gianella Gonzalo
doaj   +2 more sources

Human Rights Activism and the (De-)securitization of the ‘Other’

open access: yesPolitikon, 2016
The article contributes to the scholarly debate through casting light on the (de-)securitizing character of human rights invocations by civil society organizations (CSOs) in ethno-political conflicts. The securitization concept is an innovative tool for
Richard Georgi
doaj   +1 more source

Filling the gap : a learning network for health and human rights in the Western Cape, South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
We draw on the experience of a Learning Network for Health and Human Rights (LN) involving collaboration between academic institutions and civil society organizations in the Western Cape, South Africa, aimed at identifying and disseminating best practice
Fick, Nicolé   +3 more
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Transferrin receptor 1‐mediated iron uptake supports thermogenic activation in human cervical‐derived adipocytes

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
In this study, we found that human cervical‐derived adipocytes maintain intracellular iron level by regulating the expression of iron transport‐related proteins during adrenergic stimulation. Melanotransferrin is predicted to interact with transferrin receptor 1 based on in silico analysis.
Rahaf Alrifai   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human Rights Indicators across Institutional Regimes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper aims to investigate what human rights indicators are, and what role they play within international organizations. In particular, this paper argues that human rights indicators, far from having similar structures and posing similar problems ...
Infantino, Marta
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