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Universal Human Rights? Historical and Contemporary Comments

open access: yesPoliteja, 2021
The concept of human rights, supposedly of universal importance, is usually derived from the tradition referred to as “Western”. Although the “classic approaches” – Greek, Roman and Christian, refer to the norms of natural law, making them the basis or ...
Bogdan Szlachta
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Human Nature as a Criterion against Relativity of Human Rights [PDF]

open access: yesFaṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i ̒Umūmī, 2016
Nowadays, it is very common to simply talk about the "relativity" of human rights. Perhaps this relativistic approach might be the unintended consequence of a situational looking at human rights.
Mohammad Javad Javid   +1 more
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Thomas Hobbes’s Theological and Political Anthropology and the Essential Mutations of the Perception of the Laws of Nature and Natural Rights in Seventeenth-Century England

open access: yesAnales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía, 2020
The overall goal of the article is to reexamine Hobbes’s concern to respond to the challenges of the republican perspective on the relationship between the liberty of subjects and the political power.
Ionut Untea
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Sorting Out Animal Policy: Ideas, Problems, and Solutions

open access: yesInternational Review of Public Policy, 2022
Animals are the focus of public policy around the world. Nonetheless, animal policy has not been established as a separate domain. This article describes the elements of animal policy to clarify its scope for public discourse and to give it a distinct ...
Jerry Mitchell
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Nature’s Rights

open access: yesMichigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law, 2021
Do forests and rivers possess standing to sue? Do mountain ranges have substantive rights? A recent issue of The Judges’ Journal, a preeminent publication for American judges, alerts the bench, bar, and policymakers to the rapidly emerging “rights of nature,” predicting that state and federal courts will increasingly see claims asserting such rights ...
openaire   +2 more sources

indigenous perspectives on global norms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Ever since Evo Morales Ayma became Bolivia's first indigenous president in 2006 and the promulgation of a human-rights-enhancing Constitution (2009) thereafter, indigenous peoples’ rights were gradually recognised.
Eichler, Jessika
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Limiting the Power or Restraining the Arbitrariness of the Governing Body A study How Government Sovereignty is Exercised in the French and American Legal Systems [PDF]

open access: yesحقوق عمومی تطبیقی
Regarding the concept of revolution, in addition to different comprehensive definitions throughout history, its result, that is, the governments emerging from the revolution, have also emerged in different forms from each other.
Ayat Mulaee   +2 more
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Intellectual Property, Globalization, and Left-Libertarianism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Intellectual property has become the apple of discord in today’s moral and political debates. Although it has been approached from many different perspectives, a final conclusion has not been reached.
Vică, Constantin
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Epidemiology of HIV Infection and Molecular and Genetic Features of the Virus at the Infected Persons in Siberian Federal District

open access: yesЭпидемиология и вакцинопрофилактика, 2016
Relevance. HIV infection epidemic in the Siberian Federal District (SFD) continues to develop with a tendency to incidence growth. The prevalence indicator in the district on 1/1/2015 made 948,4 on 100 thousand of the population.
A. N. Kolomeets   +5 more
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Inconsistencies in Himma's Intellectual Property Theory

open access: yesAnaliza i Egzystencja, 2023
The intellectual property theory of Kenneth E. Himma aims to vindicate natural rights to the "intellectual content of creations", which is believed to consist of abstract objects.
Wojciech Gamrot
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