Timothy G. Evans Health and Human Rights 15/1 Published June 2013 In the last two decades, the mushrooming of global health partnerships, alliances, funds and initiatives accompanied by a shift in the resource psyche from millions to billions has been exciting but also bewildering. The landscape of global health is no longer defined primarily by multilateral institutions comprised of member states, but has been forced to expand to consider new…
Abstract – Toward a legal framework that promotes and protects sex workers’ health and human rights
Cheryl Overs, Bebe Loff Health and Human Rights 15/1 Published June 2013 Abstract Complex combinations of law, policy, and enforcement practices determine sex workers vulnerability to HIV and rights abuses. We identify “lack of recognition as a person before the law” as an important but undocumented barrier to accessing services and conclude that multi-faceted, setting-specific reform is needed—rather than a singular focus on decriminalization—if the health and human rights of…
Toward a legal framework that promotes and protects sex workers’ health and human rights
Cheryl Overs, Bebe Loff Health and Human Rights 15/1 Published June 2013 Abstract Complex combinations of law, policy, and enforcement practices determine sex workers vulnerability to HIV and rights abuses. We identify “lack of recognition as a person before the law” as an important but undocumented barrier to accessing services and conclude that multi-faceted, setting-specific reform is needed—rather than a singular focus on decriminalization—if the health and human rights of…
Abstract – Respecting the right to access to medicines: Implications of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights for the pharmaceutical industry
Suerie Moon Health and Human Rights 15/1 Published June 2013 Abstract What are the human rights responsibilities of pharmaceutical companies with regard to access to medicines? The state-based international human rights framework has long struggled with the issue of the human rights obligations of non-state actors, a question sharpened by economic globalization and the concomitant growing power of private for-profit actors (“business”). In 2011, after a six-year development process, the…
Respecting the right to access to medicines: Implications of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights for the pharmaceutical industry
Suerie Moon Health and Human Rights 15/1 Published June 2013 Abstract What are the human rights responsibilities of pharmaceutical companies with regard to access to medicines? The state-based international human rights framework has long struggled with the issue of the human rights obligations of non-state actors, a question sharpened by economic globalization and the concomitant growing power of private for-profit actors (“business”). In 2011, after a six-year development process, the…
Abstract – The Framework Convention on Global Health: A tool for empowering the HIV/AIDS movements in Senegal and South Africa
Ella Scheepers Health and Human Rights 15/1 Published June 2013 Abstract Despite the Alma Ata-inspired slogan “health for all by 2000,” the world remains afflicted with poor health in the second decade of the 21st century.1 This situation has generated much debate, and as a result, national and global responses have arguably entered a new era, building on the past success and failures of health movements, most notably on…
The Framework Convention on Global Health: A tool for empowering the HIV/AIDS movements in Senegal and South Africa
Ella Scheepers Health and Human Rights 15/1 Published June 2013 Abstract Despite the Alma Ata-inspired slogan “health for all by 2000,” the world remains afflicted with poor health in the second decade of the 21st century.1 This situation has generated much debate, and as a result, national and global responses have arguably entered a new era, building on the past success and failures of health movements, most notably on the…
Abstract – Funding global health
Sophie Smyth and Anna Triponel Health and Human Rights 15/1 Published June 2013 Abstract Experience teaches that the Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) will need a financing facility if it is to garner widespread acceptance among low-income countries. The promise of financing is a well-established carrot to encourage countries to assume new convention-imposed obligations that will be costly to carry out. Promising to provide financing as part of an…
Funding global health
Sophie Smyth and Anna Triponel Health and Human Rights 15/1 Published June 2013 Abstract Experience teaches that the Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) will need a financing facility if it is to garner widespread acceptance among low-income countries. The promise of financing is a well-established carrot to encourage countries to assume new convention-imposed obligations that will be costly to carry out. Promising to provide financing as part of an…
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 Freely available online here. Reviewed by HHR editorial assistant Krista Oehlke As editors Joel Anderson and Jos Philips bring into focus in this new volume, the 2008 UN Convention on the Rights of…
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