Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde [Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd] 2018 May 16; Vol. 162. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 May 16.

Abstract:Sexual health is an internationally recognised human right, imposing obligations on States to promote the aspirations enshrined in this right. However, from a legal and ethical perspective, the right to sexual health also creates duties for doctors to ...

Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde [Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd] 2012; Vol. 156 (3), pp. A3818.

Abstract:A 30-year-old cocaine-dependent woman was 16 weeks pregnant. Because of possible endangerment of the fetus, an involuntary provisional admission was authorized. Of particular interest is the application of the Dutch Act on Formal Admissions to Psychiat...

Publication Type:Editorial & Opinion

Source(s):Tijdschrift voor psychiatrie [Tijdschr Psychiatr] 2015; Vol. 57 (3), pp. 158-60.

Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde [Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd] 2010; Vol. 154 (51-52), pp. A2882.

Abstract:One of the universal human rights is the right to live. This right should not be restricted for patients with a haematological malignancy. All treatment options should be made available to these patients for as long as treatment is reasonable and benef...

Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde [Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd] 2000 Dec 23; Vol. 144 (52), pp. 2515-6.

Abstract:Physicians have a professional obligation to be among the first to defend human rights. Accordingly they have established organisations in many countries to that aim, which are united in the International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organisat...

Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde [Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd] 2003 Apr 19; Vol. 147 (16), pp. 773-6.

Abstract:Australia deports its asylum seekers to poor neighbouring islands like Nauru in the Pacific. The asylum seekers are kept in detention on these islands, with serious consequences for their mental health and a high incidence of psychiatric disorders. Pro...

Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, Vol 25 (2022)

Abstract:For many years, South African courts have relied on International Labour Organisation (hereafter ‘the ILO’) conventions to interpret and give meaning to the fundamental social security and labour law rights enshrined in the Constitution, 1996. Social s...

Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, Vol 25 (2022)

Abstract:The prosecution of perpetrators of mass violations of human rights remains one of the unfinished tasks of Africa's ʺdemocraciesʺ which, in itself, is eloquent evidence of the need for systemic arrangements to protect human rights, build a culture of th...

Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde [Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd] 2014; Vol. 158, pp. A8019.

Abstract:The aim of the Dutch Care and Coercion Act (Wet Zorg en Dwang) is to improve the legal position of people with an intellectual disability in cases of involuntary admission to psychiatric care. The present law, the Dutch Psychiatric Act (Wet BOPZ), only...

Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde [Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd] 1990 Sep 01; Vol. 134 (35), pp. 1677-80.