Issues

Benjamin Mason Meier Before the election of the Director-General of WHO, and given the importance of human rights to global health governance through WHO, Health and Human Rights asked the three final candidates for their views on human…

Damon Barrett Introduction The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) stands alone among the core UN human rights treaties in setting out a human right to protection from drugs. Article 33 provides that “States Parties shall take all…

Rick Lines, Richard Elliott, Julie Hannah, Rebecca Schleifer, Tenu Avafia, and Damon Barrett This special section of Health and Human Rights Journal examines some of the many ways in which international and domestic drug control laws engage human…

Wan-Ju Wu, Sheela Maru, Kiran Regmi, and Indira Basnett Historical context Reproductive rights are considered to be an inseparable part of women’s human rights and within that the right to abortion is seen to hold an important place. —Lakshmi…

Julieta Lemaitre and Rachel Sieder  Abstract Feminists and religious conservatives across the globe have increasingly turned to courts in their battles over abortion. Yet while a significant literature analyzes legal mobilization on abortion…

Lidia Casas and Lieta Vivaldi Abstract Chile allows abortion under no circumstances. Whether it’s fetal anomaly incompatible with life or congenital malformation resulting in little or no life expectancy, all Chilean women are expected to carry…

Ronli Sifris and Suzanne Belton Abstract This article adopts a human rights lens to consider Australian law and practice regarding elective abortion. As such, it considers Australian laws within the context of the right to equality, right to…

Barbara Baird Abstract                      This article considers the relationship between the decriminalization of abortion and women’s access to…

Grady Arnott, Grace Sheehy, Orawee Chinthakanan, and Angel M. Foster Abstract Despite decades of advocacy among Thai governmental and nongovernmental actors to remove abortion from the country’s 1957 Criminal Code, this medically necessary service…

Claire Pierson and Fiona Bloomer Abstract How abortion is dealt with in law and policy is shaped through the multiple political and societal discourses on the issue within a particular society. Debate on abortion is constantly in flux, with…