Issues

Lucas Trout, Corina Kramer, and Lois Fischer Abstract American Indians and Alaska Natives have long held a state-conferred right to health, yet Indigenous communities across the United States continue to experience significant health and health…

Moses Mulumba, Leslie London, Juliana Nantaba, and Charles Ngwena Abstract Community participation is not only a human right in itself but an essential underlying determinant for realizing the right to health, since it enables communities to be…

Gillian MacNaughton, Mariah McGill, April Jakubec, and Andjela Kaur Abstract Massachusetts is a national leader in health care, consistently ranking in the top five states in the United States. In 2006, however, only 86% of adults aged 19–64 had…

Marta Schaaf, Shruti Chhabra, Walter Flores, Francesa Feruglio, Jashodhara Dasgupta, and Ana Lorena Ruano Abstract Information and Communication Technology (ICT) may facilitate the collection and dissemination of citizen-generated data to enhance…

Ebenezer Durojaye and Daphine Kabagambe Agaba  Introduction Between October 2015 and June 2016, 1,711 people were relocated from mental health facilities operated by long-term provider Life Esidimeni in the South African province of Gauteng…

Emily J. Kirk and Robert Huish  Abstract In 2008, Cuba’s minister of public health signed Resolution 126, an act that assured complete coverage for Cubans seeking sexual reassignment surgeries (also known as gender confirmation surgeries), the…

Gillian MacNaughton and Diane Frey Abstract In the 2008 report Closing the gap in a generation, the Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) described “fair employment and decent work” as components of daily living conditions that…

Renate Douwes, Maria Stuttaford, and Leslie London Abstract Participation is recognized as an important contribution to implementing the right to health. It features as a key element of the global movement to achieve universal health coverage. The…

Tamar Ezer and Priti Patel Abstract The HIV movement has relied on strategic litigation as an important tool to develop and enforce legal protections critical to health. This experience contains lessons on the potential of strategic litigation to…

Adele Jones Athena Ramos’s paper “Child Labor in Global Tobacco Production: A Human Rights Approach to an Enduring Dilemma” highlights the critical issue of human rights for working children, especially those working in hazardous tobacco farming,…