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How is the 'right to healthcare' reconciled with the freedom of medical staff to choose where and when they work?
There are two different aspects to this apparent contradiction. When a government signs up to a human rights convention which guarantees a right to healthcare, it needs to pass domestic legislation to ...
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Are there other countries besides Türkiye that insist their name be written in English using diacritics (or even other letters) not common in English?
On the UN list of countries, Côte d’Ivoire is the only other country to use a “special” character. From Wikipedia:
in April 1986, the government declared that Côte d'Ivoire (or, more fully, ...
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Are there any wars other than the 2023 Israel-Hamas War that are named after a country and a political party?
"Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict" is the current title of a Wikipedia page. The Houthis are only a faction in Yemen, but they claim to be the legitimate government, IIRC. Their own wiki page ...
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Besides Jamaica, are there other countries where a "Labour" (or Workers' etc.) party is actually right-wing/conservative?
Up until very recently, the Brazilian Labour Party would have fit these criteria; despite the name suggesting a left-wing ideology, the party pivoted right in recent years. In November 2023, it merged ...
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Which countries (besides China) have called for an "immediate ceasefire" in Gaza?
Here are the countries I found so far. I turned this answer into a community wiki, so feel free to add other countries you find.
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Date calling for ceasefire
Russia
October 7 2023
Brazil
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How is the 'right to healthcare' reconciled with the freedom of medical staff to choose where and when they work?
The answers will vary based on the country you are talking about.
Not every country promises a "right" to healthcare. Not every country allows its people to choose conditions under which ...
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Besides Jamaica, are there other countries where a "Labour" (or Workers' etc.) party is actually right-wing/conservative?
In Portugal, the PSD (Partido Social Democrata, Social Democratic Party) is the main centre-right party, with 77 seats in the current Portuguese parliament. The main centre-left party is just the PS (...
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Are there any wars other than the 2023 Israel-Hamas War that are named after a country and a political party?
Here is a good site enumerating the way wars in history have been named previously: https://www.historyguy.com/naming_of_wars.htm
In brief these are the 10 different ways wars tend to get named.
A ...
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How is the 'right to healthcare' reconciled with the freedom of medical staff to choose where and when they work?
Just take Germany as an example. Some people have private health insurance. There the market regulates how much healthcare everyone can buy for itself. If you pay more, you get better treatment, if ...
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Besides Jamaica, are there other countries where a "Labour" (or Workers' etc.) party is actually right-wing/conservative?
In early Russian Federation (and some would say to this day), Communist Party was conservative/Right Wing because other political forces were taking the progressivist / reformist / economic liberal ...
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Besides Jamaica, are there other countries where a "Labour" (or Workers' etc.) party is actually right-wing/conservative?
Spain's Frente Obrero (literally: "Workers' Front") fits the description, at least when it comes to social matters:
Despite being strongly connected with the PML(RC) and supporting
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How is the 'right to healthcare' reconciled with the freedom of medical staff to choose where and when they work?
It’s a right to some level of healthcare, not to all that may be desired, so it does not conflict with the freedom of potential healthcare workers.
In practice, first the government determines what ...
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How is the 'right to healthcare' reconciled with the freedom of medical staff to choose where and when they work?
It's worth pointing out that this 'right' is an ideal. In practice, very few people in any profession have an absolute right to choose where and when they work. Medical professionals (in this instance)...
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Are people in other countries besides Egypt boycotting Western brands, as a result of the war in Gaza?
Yes, these boycotts have been occurring across the Arab world and in other Muslim-majority nations. To give some examples, the Turkish parliament has removed Coca-Cola and Nestle products from outlets ...
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Among democratic countries, which central bank is the least autonomous?
It's probably not possible to definitively answer this Q, but Costa Rica is a full democracy according to the index you linked (although only since 2018), but until recently [June 2023] they had the ...
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Besides Jamaica, are there other countries where a "Labour" (or Workers' etc.) party is actually right-wing/conservative?
The Danish party Venstre (literally "the Left") started out as a left-wing party, but by now is considered center-right.
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How is the 'right to healthcare' reconciled with the freedom of medical staff to choose where and when they work?
You should see the right to the healthcare as a part of the forest, not as a single tree
The right to the healthcare is a part of the whole human rights system, it can't be considered separately.
If ...
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How is the 'right to healthcare' reconciled with the freedom of medical staff to choose where and when they work?
From what I know from the situation in my own land, the Netherlands, a distinction is made between "classic constitutional rights" and "social constitutional rights".
Classic ...
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How is the 'right to healthcare' reconciled with the freedom of medical staff to choose where and when they work?
Is there any political theory, or any other explanation, as to how this is resolved?
The political theory applicalble in this case is called balancing of rights (and interests).
As mentioned in ...
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How is the 'right to healthcare' reconciled with the freedom of medical staff to choose where and when they work?
It is easy if you have the correct framework, specifically if you distinguish between "opportunity" and "outcome".
The right of the patient is the right to an opportunity.
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Among democratic countries, which central bank is the least autonomous?
Japan scores lowest on David Romelli's Central Bank Independence (Extended) index (2022) (out of the 24 "Full Democracies" on the Economist Democracy Index, 2022):
Index is from 0 (least ...
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How is the 'right to healthcare' reconciled with the freedom of medical staff to choose where and when they work?
Theoretically, the government could treat this similarly to the way they handle their military. If there are places where doctors are needed, but not enough are voluntarily located there, they could ...
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What Are The Exact Differences Between The US Judicial System And The Proposed Israeli Judicial Reform, In Terms Of Checks And Balances
Can tell at a glance that something like 6 only happens in some other countries [not the US], but in Canada or the UK, IIRC. Since details on #3 are still pending can't say much about that, but it's ...
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Besides Jamaica, are there other countries where a "Labour" (or Workers' etc.) party is actually right-wing/conservative?
At the European parliament there is the center-right European People's Party, and one of its Spanish members is Partido Popular (People's Party).
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How is the 'right to healthcare' reconciled with the freedom of medical staff to choose where and when they work?
There is a flaw in your question. Medical assistance appears as if it were just a voluntary practice. But actually it is a job as all the others. Of course, it requires some dedication, a long ...
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How radical are the SNP's proposals on gender recognition?
united-statesnew-york
As of June 2022, New York state allows anyone over the age of 18 to change their gender on state ID documents to Male, Female, or X simply by submitting a form to the DMV, either ...
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Are there other countries besides Türkiye that insist their name be written in English using diacritics (or even other letters) not common in English?
Well, if you want to extend the country aspect to Canadian native nations, yes, that is very much a thing these days. Here's some for BC
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw - Squamish Nation
xʷməθkʷəy̓əm - ...
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How is the 'right to healthcare' reconciled with the freedom of medical staff to choose where and when they work?
There are no 'absolute rights'. You may have a right to health care in some countries, and the doctors may have a right to live wherever they want.
If doctors don't want to live in remote small town X,...
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Besides Jamaica, are there other countries where a "Labour" (or Workers' etc.) party is actually right-wing/conservative?
The Cambodian People's Party - I know it's 'People's' and not Labour or Worker, but it started out as a dictatorial Communist Party - as in 'people's republic' - and is now a dictatorial conservative ...
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Are there any wars other than the 2023 Israel-Hamas War that are named after a country and a political party?
The closest historical equivalent may be WW2.
Both declarations of war by the USA (against Japan and against Germany) were declared not on those countries, but explicitly on their governments:
Quote:
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