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Health and Human Rights is currently seeking articles for future issues. Accepted contributions will be published in the journal’s open access electronic and print versions. Articles are invited for Critical Concepts (5,000–7,000 words) and for Health and Human Rights in Practice (500–7,000 words). Manuscripts that address issues relevant to health and human rights outside of the specific theme topics listed below are welcome at any time. Authors whose articles are accepted for publication may be requested to make extensive revisions following formal acceptance, with manuscripts subject to extensive copyediting.
Issue 11:2 Non-Discrimination and Equality
The journal is no longer accepting submissions for this issue.
Issue 12:1 “International Assistance and Cooperation” and Health and Human Rights Obligations Beyond Borders
Submissions due: January 15, 2010
Manuscripts in Spanish or French (which will be translated) should be received by January 1, 2010
The ability of poor countries to realize the right to health, as well as to fulfill other human rights obligations relating to social and environmental determinants of health, must be understood within the context of the global political economy, global ecology, and the power of social movements that increasingly cross borders. According to Article 2 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, “Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to take steps, individually and through international assistance and co-operation, especially economic and technical, to the maximum of its available resources, with a view to achieving progressively the full realization of the rights recognized in the present Covenant by all appropriate means, including particularly the adoption of legislative measures” (italics added). Thus, donor countries assume human rights obligations directly and as members of international organizations, such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and regional development banks. UN and international agencies, as well as transnational corporations under certain circumstances, may also have human rights obligations relating to health.
We are particularly interested in looking at how growing global movements for social justice and the protection of the environment constitute significant — but not always unified — voices in health-related rights debates. This issue will critically explore how international rights obligations in health are being defined and discharged and will discuss existing mechanisms to hold donor states and other actors, including transnational corporations, accountable for their human rights obligations. This issue will also consider the challenges to expanding the human rights regime to focus on actors beyond the immediate nation-state in which a violation is occurring.
Issue 12:2 "The Social Conditions of Health: Convergences and Dysjunctures"
Submission due: March 1, 2010
Manuscripts in Spanish or French (which will be translated) should be received by January 15, 2010
Recent high-profile processes such as the World Health Organization’s Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) and the revitalization of primary health care have highlighted opportunities for action on the social forces that affect health. But these processes have also revealed conceptual and political divergences among key constituencies engaged in the social dimensions of health action at local, national, and global levels. New alliances, but also new lines of tension, are emerging. And as the evidence base on aspects of social epidemiology improves, the daunting implementation challenges involved in intersectoral action and “health in all policies” approaches to improve health equity stand out more starkly.
Health and Human Rights: An International Journal now invites contributions to a forthcoming issue of the journal that will explore these convergences and dysjunctures between rights-based approaches to health and the fields of social medicine and social epidemiology. The journal hopes to illuminate key conceptual and political questions arising within and between the traditions of social medicine, social epidemiology, and human rights. The issue will also provide a platform to evaluate the delivery challenges and solutions emerging as policymakers, implementers, and affected communities seek to translate these approaches into concrete action for improved health.
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