Archive: 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,…

Published November 25, 2014 Health rights litigation is receiving much attention at Harvard’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and Harvard Law School. Under the direction of FXB policy director Alicia Ely Yamin, the Center recently hosted the…

By Patrick Donnelly Published November 20, 2014 Ebola demonstrates the critical link between health and human rights, the lack of governance, and the misdirection that befalls the international community in addressing such outbreaks. Human rights…

Carolijn Terwindt Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/2 Abstract In 2009, around 24,000 girls in India were enrolled in a human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination program that was later reviewed to investigate allegations of informed consent…

Allan Maleche and Emma Day Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/2 Abstract To what extent has the right to access generic HIV medication been implemented in Kenya for the 1.6 million people living with HIV? How does this relate to the right to…

Tripti Tandon, Gabriel Armas-Cardona, Anand Grover Sex work and its relationship to trafficking is one of the more divisive policy issues of our times, as seen in the ongoing debate in Canada over a bill that views prostitution as inherently…