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Times Review: Lawrence Gostin’s “Global Health Law”
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…

Platform for a Framework Convention on Global Health
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…

MDG4 Lessons Could Save More Children’s Lives After 2015
By Carmel Williams, Executive Editor, Health and Human Rights Journal If human rights-based approaches to child health had informed the Millennium Development Goal addressing child survival, the already impressive reduction in child mortality since…

Lawrence Gostin publishes Global Health Law
The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, a member of the Health and Human Rights Consortium, shares the following update about a new book from Lawrence O. Gostin.  Georgetown University Law Center Professor and…

You’re Invited – O’Neill Institute 2014 Summer Programs!
The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, a member of the Health and Human Rights Consortium, invites you to their 2014 Summer Programs.  Now in our third year, we are excited to present two programs this summer: (1)…

The University as Global Citizen
By guest contributor Juliet Sorensen As our world shrinks, universities must prepare their students for life outside the ivory tower while they are still inside it. The 2013 Global Alliance for Justice Education Worldwide Conference in Delhi focused…

Requirements for Perspectives essays and blog posts
Perspectives essays Health and Human Rights accepts submissions for consideration in our Perspectives section. Please refer to the following requirements in preparing a Perspectives essay. The maximum word length is 2000 words. The essay must…

Book Brief – Disability and Universal Human Rights
Disability and Universal Human Rights: Legal, Ethical, and Conceptual Implications of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Edited by Joel Anderson and Jos Philips Utrecht University (October 2012) ISBN: 9789039358634 194 pages…