Archive: 2014

Paul Hunt, the first Special Rapporteur on the right to health, and guest editor of the forthcoming December 2015 issue of Health and Human Rights Journal, takes his TED audience on a journey to question the validity of his young son’s observation that…

Litigating Reproductive Health Rights in the Inter-American System: What Does a Winning Case Look Like? Ciara O’Connell Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/2 Remedies and reparation measures emerging from the Inter-American System…

Four Strategic Pathways for the Realization of the Right to Health Through Civil Society Actions; Challenges and Practical Lessons Learned in the Egyptian Context Ayman Sabae Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/2 This article…

Ciara O’Connell Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/2 Abstract Remedies and reparation measures emerging from the Inter-American System of Human Rights in reproductive health cases have consistently highlighted the need to develop, and…

Ayman Sabae Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/2 Abstract This article examines four distinctly different, yet fully complementary, strategic pathways adopted by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), an Egyptian independent human…

By Ankur Asthana, Associate in Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Co-Founder of Article 25 Published December 9, 2014 As we approach the new year, many of us in global health will be keeping an eye on the new…

Luisa Cabal, Monica Arango Olaya, Valentina Montoya Robledo Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/2 Conscientious Objection or conscientious refusal (CO) in access to reproductive health care is at the center of current legal debates worldwide. In…

Litigating the Right to Health: What Can We Learn from a Comparative Law and Health Care Systems Approach Colleen M. Flood and Aeyal Gross Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/2 This article presents research demonstrating that the right…

Health Rights Litigation and Access to Medicines: Priority Classification of Successful Cases from Costa Rica’s Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court Ole Frithjof Norheim and Bruce M. Wilson Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/2 Abstract…

Right to Health Encompasses Right to Access Essential Generic Medicines: Challenging the 2008 Anti-Counterfeit Act in Kenya Allan Maleche and Emma Day Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/2 To what extent has the right to access generic HIV…