Archive: Dec 2014

Health Rights Litigation Pushes for Accountability in Clinical Trials in India Carolijn Terwindt Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/2 In 2009, around 24,000 girls in India were enrolled in a human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination…

Sanitation Rights, Public Law Litigation, and Inequality: A Case Study from Brazil Ana Paula de Barcellos Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/2 Public law litigation has been used in many places to advance human rights related to health. In Brazil,…

Sex Workers, Unite! (Litigating for Sex Workers’ Freedom of Association in Russia) F. S. E. (Freddie) Arps and Mikhail Golichenko Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/2 The existing legal framework in Russia makes sex work and related activities…

Health Rights in the Balance: The Case Against Perinatal Shackling of Women Behind Bars Brett Dignam and Eli Y. Adashi Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/2 Rationalized for decades on security grounds, perinatal shackling entails the…

F. S. E. (Freddie) Arps and Mikhail Golichenko Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/2 Abstract The existing legal framework in Russia makes sex work and related activities punishable offenses, leaving sex workers stigmatized, vulnerable to violence,…