Archive: 2014

How Human Rights Can Build Haiti: Activists, Lawyers, and the Grassroots Campaign Fran Quigley Vanderbilt University Press (forthcoming September 2014) ISBN: 978-0-8265-4993-1 (cloth $35.00) 240 pages By Health and Human Rights editorial intern Laura…

Posted September 4, 2014 The new Special Rapporteur on the human right to health assumed his duties on August 1. Selected over the summer by the Human Rights Council, Dr. Dainius Pūras of Lithuania is the third individual to occupy the honorary…

Posted September 2, 2014 The first-ever global conference on health and climate change was hosted by WHO in Geneva from August 27-29. More than 300 invited participants attended the three-day forum, including UN agency heads, government…

The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, a member of the Health and Human Rights Consortium, invites you to a colloquium event:  The West African Ebola Epidemic: How Can It Be Contained and How Can We Prevent the Next…

In an August 11 article in The Age Elizabeth Brumby (@LizBrumby) outlines two lectures on health and human rights from the Honorable Michael Kirby, a former justice of the High Court of Australia and a member of the Health and Human Rights editorial…

When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health Edited by João Biehl & Adriana Petryna Princeton University Press (July 2013) Hardcover ISBN: 9780691157382 ($75.00) Paperback ISBN: 9780691157399 ($29.95) 456 pages Reviewed by HHR…

HHR contributor Juliet Sorensen reviews Lawrence O. Gostin’s Global Health Law in today’s Times Higher Education. Gostin is on the steering committee for the recently launched Framework Convention on Global Health, and is an…

Maria Kristiansen and Aziz Sheikh Published July 22, 2014 As Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries increase global engagement and aspire to host high-profile international events such as the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar and the 2020 World Expo…

By editorial intern Laura Faas A new website devoted to the Framework Convention on Global Health is intended to “facilitate engagement, advocacy, and support from people across the world for adopting and implementing a Framework Convention on Global…

Upendra Bhojani, Pragati Hebbar, Vishal Rao, Vandana Shah Published July 15,  2014 This year marks the 50th anniversary of the US Surgeon General’s report that first stated smoking was dangerous and associated with serious diseases, the list…