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COP21 SERIES Reshaping the landscape: The geography of human rights, climate change, and disasters
Healthy Island communities in PNG get running water
Jean Carmalt
When leaders gather in Paris to discuss serious measures to address climate change this December, they will be surrounded by a city and region that, in recent decades, has spent its…
COP21 SERIES A symbiotic relationship: Sustainable Development Goals and COP21
Cecilia Sorensen and Jay Lemery
Irrefutable evidence demonstrates that human health depends on environmental health and that the protection of human rights and strict environmental standards are mutually reinforcing.1 By attempting to address root…
COP21 SERIES: Calling for blogs on climate change and the right to health
Climate change threatens the health of all people and the planet with its most severe effects on people who already struggle to enjoy their human rights.
At the end of November world leaders will meet in Paris at the UN Climate Conference (COP21). The…
Will Pharma Overreach in the TPPA Create A Movement for Access to Medicines?
TPPA protests in Auckland, New Zealand (photo courtesy of Rhys Jones)
Fran Quigley
Earlier this month, representatives of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) parties announced they had concluded five years of negotiations by agreeing to…
SDG SERIES: National Health Equity Strategies to Implement the Global Promise of SDGs
SDG Goal 3: Good Health
Eric A. Friedman
“No one will be left behind.”1 The bold promise at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) must guide their implementation. This requires utterly transforming the lives and opportunities of…
SDG SERIES: With SDGs Now Adopted, Human Rights Must Inform Implementation and Accountability
SDG Goals
Carmel Williams and Alison Blaiklock
Last weekend at the UN General Assembly, world leaders adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their 169 targets with much celebration. It had taken three years of political…
SDG SERIES: Progress on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene through SDG 6? Only if the Focus Shifts to Eliminating Inequalities
SDG goal 6: clean water and sanitation
Inga Winkler and Virginia Roaf
Much effort has gone into elaborating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the human rights community has made significant strides in integrating human rights into the…
SDG SERIES: The Access to Medicine Index and Accountability of Pharmaceutical Companies
SDG Goal 3: Good Health
Damiano de Felice and Danny Edwards
The United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda will be held in New York later this week. The draft outcome document, titled “Transforming our world: the…
SDG SERIES: Opportunities for Realizing the Child’s Right to Health Under the SDGs
SDG Goal 3: Good Health
Jennifer J. K. Rasanathan, Benjamin Mason Meier, Kumanan Rasanathan
This week, countries will adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) following three years of discussions on what should succeed the Millennium…
SDG SERIES: The World’s Poor are Being Denied the Right to Share in Scientific Advancement
SDG Goal 3: Good Health
Gavin Yamey
Transforming Our World, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which is likely to be adopted next week by UN Member States, contains astonishingly bold and ambitious aspirations for transforming global…