Rahim Kanani: How did you first become involved with advocating for the rights and health of women and children around the world?
But only Congress can enact the Patients' Bill of Rights for all Americans in all health plans.
It says there "must also be mandatory human rights and dignified care training for frontline health and social care staff in Wales to ensure that patients' dignity is always maintained".
Dr. Benjamin received the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights in 1998, and was elected to the American Medical Association Board of Trustees in 1995, making her the first physician under age 40 and the first African-American woman to be elected.
Plan said it wanted policymakers to ensure universal birth registration for all children orphaned by or living with Aids, protection of inheritance and property rights for Aids orphans and basic access to health care.
Over the past five decades, Kennedy has been a leader in nearly every major battle for women's rights, immigration reform or health care.
These purposes, added the Director, were specifically listed in the ICCPR as being reserved for protection of other rights, national security, and public health and morals.
I've spent my entire life trying to make good on it, whether it was fighting for women's basic rights or children's basic health care, protecting our social security or protecting our soldiers.
Material safety includes access to things like potable water, food and health services while legal safety includes redress for human rights violations, non-discrimination, and unhindered access to justice.
In a UK-wide study done by the Royal Association for Disability Rights in 2009, 15% of those with mental health problems did not disclose them to anybody at work, compared with just 4% for those with other disabilities.
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Remind folks how Barack ended the war in Iraq, passed historic health reform, and stood up for our most fundamental rights again and again and again.
In Wisconsin the unions, in a smart tactical move, offered to give into the governor's demands on pension and health reform in exchange for maintenance of their collective bargaining rights.
Kennedy said he expects the same kind of fight when he brings his Patients' Bill of Rights, aimed at overseeing Health Maintenance Organizations, to the Senate floor for a vote.
Remind folks how Barack ended the war in Iraq, passed historic health reform and stood up for our most basic, fundamental rights again and again and again.
Yokich said Gore was on the UAW's side on the economy, workers' rights, education, the Social Security retirement program and Medicare health care program for the elderly, the environment, and other issues of concern to working families.
The unabashed liberal fought for civil rights, environmental causes, farmers, hikes in the minimum wage and health-care reform.
But while free speech might be the starting point, the ECHR does allow for the restriction of those freedoms to safeguard "public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, protection of the reputation or rights of others".
States have an obligation to create and maintain adequate measures at the national level, in particular in the fields of education, health and social support, for the promotion and protection of the rights of persons in vulnerable sectors of their populations and to ensure the participation of those among them who are interested in finding a solution to their own problems.
While much of the Rio agenda focuses on the developing world and people's rights to water, food, energy, education, health and so on, there are implications for rich Western countries as well.
Those figures were the result of an analysis done since the federal government implemented Clinton's February 1998 executive orders requiring government health care programs to come into compliance with his standards for a patients' bill of rights.
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Wyss, a committed conservationist, is Chairman of The Wyss Foundation and The HJW Foundation, charitable organizations that work on environmental issues, as well as social issues in immigration reform, healthcare for all Americans, fairness in the loan industry and in women's health and reproductive rights, among many other projects.
The Democrats certainly made the early running in the health-care debate: Mr Clinton first asked Congress for a patient's bill of rights way back in November, and the Democrats duly obliged with their plan in March.
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