Archive: Aug 2013

Gorik Ooms and Rachel Hammonds Health and Human Rights 12/1 Published June 2010 Abstract In Just Health, Norman Daniels makes a strong argument for obligations of mutual assistance to fulfill the right to health at the national level and challenges…

Stacey B. Lee Health and Human Rights 12/1 Published June 2010 Abstract The past several years have seen an evolution in the obligations of pharmaceutical companies conducting clinical trials abroad. Key players, such as international human rights…

Stacey B. Lee Health and Human Rights 12/1 Published June 2010 Abstract The past several years have seen an evolution in the obligations of pharmaceutical companies conducting clinical trials abroad. Key players, such as international human rights…

Alicia Ely Yamin Health and Human Rights 12/2 Published December 2010 Abstract The case of Haiti’s devastating earthquake and the reactions it has elicited sharply illustrate an array of seemingly dichotomous ways of understanding obligations of…

Alicia Ely Yamin Health and Human Rights 12/1 Published June 2010   Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized. — Universal Declaration of Human…

Jennifer Leaning With this issue, the editors conclude a thematic series exploring key concepts in a rights-based approach to health. The series began, in Volume 10 Number 1, by addressing the question, “What is a rights-based approach to health and why…

Benson Oduor Ojwang, Emily Atieno Ogutu, and Peter Maina Matu Health and Human Rights 12/2 Published December 2010 Abstract The institutionalization of patients’ rights is a recent phenomenon in Kenya. In 2006, Kenya’s Ministry of Health initiated policy…

Laura M. Bisaillon Health and Human Rights 12/2 Published December 2010 Abstract This paper focuses on the key human rights consequences of the HIV screening policy that applies to all permanent and some temporary resident applicants to Canada. This…

Laura M. Bisaillon Health and Human Rights 12/2 Published December 2010   We were uncomfortable with the fact that the Canadian HIV policy did not apply for work visa applications for nationals of all countries. We started to say jokes like, “HIV…

Timothy P. Williams, Elaine J. Alpert, Roy Ahn, Elizabeth Cafferty, Wendy Macias Konstantopoulos, Nadya Wolferstan, Judith Palmer Castor, Anita M. McGahan, and Thomas F. Burke Health and Human Rights 12/2 Published December 2010 Abstract This social…