Blogs
Facilitating Accountability for the Right to Health: Mainstreaming WHO Participation in Human Rights Monitoring
By Neha Acharya and Benjamin Mason Meier
Where human rights are central to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), accountability frameworks are necessary to assure the progressive realization of the human right to health. In creating accountability…
Contributing to the Accountability Web: The Role of NHRIs and the SDGs
Alison Hosie
National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) are independent bodies set up with a mandate to promote and protect and human rights in their country. There are over 100 of these institutions in the world and each acts as a bridge between…
The Problems with the Proposed Indicators for Monitoring Universal Health Coverage in the Sustainable Development Goals
SDG Goal 3: Good Health
Audrey R. Chapman
Writing in 2014, Alicia Ely Yamin and Vanessa Boulanger showed how the global approach to women’s sexual and reproductive health was skewed by the selection of targets and indicators chosen to measure…
Book Review: Litigating the Right to Health in Africa: Challenges and Prospects
By Ciara O’Connell
The judicialization of the right to health has been lauded and critiqued as both a positive and negative in bringing justice to health care. Litigating the Right to Health in Africa*, a volume edited by Ebenezer Durojaye, begins…
Hope for the High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines
Fran Quigley
Full disclosure: initially, I was not very excited about the announcement of the convening of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines. Every human rights advocate has learned to approach with…
Sustaining Underdevelopment: Human Rights Accountability and the Business of Food
Nicholas Caivano
Global markets channel food—with ruthless efficiency—to the highest bidder, rather than to those who are most in need.1 While multinationals exercise unprecedented influence over the world’s food systems, there are few effective…
Promising the World: Accountability and the SDGs
SDG Goals
Kate Donald
From a human rights perspective, there is little doubt that the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a huge improvement on their predecessors, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, there is one critical…
SDGs, Accountability, and the Right to Health: A New Series
SDG Goals
Carmel Williams
Accountability is a vital aspect of human rights. Without it, fundamental principles of human rights, including participation and transparency, are denied. With accountability comes trust—trust that duty bearers’…
NEW HHRJ SERIES: Calling for blogs on SDGs, Accountability, and the Right to Health
Robust accountability processes and mechanisms are an essential component of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In our recent SDG SERIES, contributors repeatedly called for human rights to underpin these processes and mechanisms.
In…
After Paris: hope and fears for justice and a healthy climate
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (second left); Christiana Figueres (left); Laurent Fabius (second right) and François Hollande (right) celebrate after the historic adoption of Paris Agreement on climate change.
Alison Blaiklock
During the long…