Special Focus: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Edited by the Consortium for Health and Human Rights
This issue of the Journal is dedicated to Jonathan Mann 1947-1998
Sofia Gruskin
Editorial
A Call to Action on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the UDHR
Writing Group for the Consortium for Health and Human Rights
Commentary
Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the UDHR
Kofi A. Annan
The UDHR: Fifty Years of Synergy Between Health and Human Rights
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Mary Robinson
The Articles of the UDHR
Article 1: Dignity and Health: The UDHR’s Revolutionary First
Jonathan Mann
Article 14: Third Class Medicine: Health Care for Refugees in Germany
Christian Pross
Article 16: For Better, For Worse
Ingar Brueggemann and Karen Newman
Article 19: Freedom of Expression and the Healthy Society
James Welsh
Article 25: Poverty and Health: Debt Relief Could Help Achieve Human Rights Objectives
Dorothy Logie and Michael Rowson
Article 26: Education, A Health Imperative: The Case of Afghanistan
Vincent Iacopino and Zohra Rasekh
Article 28: The Right to a Just and Peaceful Social and International Order
Victor W. Sidel
Thematic Analyses
Health, Medicine, and Science in the UDHR
Richard Pierre Claude and Bernardo W. Issel
The UDHR in National and International Law
Hurst Hannum
The UDHR and the Limits of Medical Ethics: The Case of South Africa
Leonard Rubenstein and Leslie London