Women’s reproductive rights in the Amazon Basin of Ecuador: Challenges for transforming policy into practice

Isabel Goicolea , Miguel San Sebastián, and Marianne Wulff Health and Human Rights 10/2 Published December 2008 Abstract Despite advances made by Ecuador in developing policies on reproductive and sexual rights, implementation, and oversight remain a challenge, affecting in particular those living in the Amazon basin. This paper reports on an evaluation of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Orellana, Ecuador, the basis of which was the Health…

Abstract – Wòch nan soley: The denial of the right to water in Haiti

Monika Kalra Varma, Margaret L. Satterthwaite, Amanda M. Klasing, Tammy Shoranick, Jude Jean, Donna Barry, Mary C. Smith Fawzi, James McKeever, and Evan Lyon Health and Human Rights 10/2 Published December 2008   Wòch nan dlo pa konnen doulè wòch nan soley. The rocks in the water don’t know the suffering of the rocks in the sun. — Haitian proverb Abstract This article combines health and water research results, evidence…

Wòch nan soley: The denial of the right to water in Haiti

Monika Kalra Varma, Margaret L. Satterthwaite, Amanda M. Klasing, Tammy Shoranick, Jude Jean, Donna Barry, Mary C. Smith Fawzi, James McKeever, and Evan Lyon Health and Human Rights 10/2 Published December 2008   Wòch nan dlo pa konnen doulè wòch nan soley. The rocks in the water don’t know the suffering of the rocks in the sun. — Haitian proverb Abstract This article combines health and water research results, evidence…

Abstract – Judicial activism in the Argentine health system: Recent trends

Victor Abramovich and Laura Pautassi Health and Human Rights 10/2 Published December 2008 Abstract This article explores judicial activism in Argentina as it relates to health, as evidenced by courts’ willingness to address health issues and to monitor public policies. It examines the strategic use of the courts to channel claims against the government or companies providing health care services both by organizations devoted to litigation in the public interest…

Judicial activism in the Argentine health system: Recent trends

Victor Abramovich and Laura Pautassi Health and Human Rights 10/2 Published December 2008 Abstract This article explores judicial activism in Argentina as it relates to health, as evidenced by courts’ willingness to address health issues and to monitor public policies. It examines the strategic use of the courts to channel claims against the government or companies providing health care services both by organizations devoted to litigation in the public interest…

Abstract – “Rights” and wrongs: What utility for the right to health in reforming trade rules on medicines?*

Lisa Forman Health and Human Rights 10/2 Published December 2008 Abstract This paper explores the legal and normative potential of the right to health to mitigate the restrictive impact of trade-related intellectual property rules on access to medicines, as evidenced by the global outcomes of the seminal pharmaceutical company litigation in South Africa in 2001. I argue that the litigation and resulting public furor provoked a paradigm shift in global…

“Rights” and wrongs: What utility for the right to health in reforming trade rules on medicines?*

Lisa Forman Health and Human Rights 10/2 Published December 2008 Abstract This paper explores the legal and normative potential of the right to health to mitigate the restrictive impact of trade-related intellectual property rules on access to medicines, as evidenced by the global outcomes of the seminal pharmaceutical company litigation in South Africa in 2001. I argue that the litigation and resulting public furor provoked a paradigm shift in global…

Litigation as a strategy to hold governments accountable for implementing the right to health

Siri Gloppen Health and Human Rights 10/2 Published December 2008 Abstract This article offers a framework for exploring litigation as a strategy to advance the right to health by holding governments accountable to human rights norms. Since the 1990s, cases in which people go to court to claim their right to health have increased dramatically in resource-poor countries. With issues ranging from access to health services and medication, to discriminatory…

Abstract – Beyond compassion: The central role of accountability in applying a human rights framework to health

Alicia Ely Yamin   Health and Human Rights 10/2 Published December 2008   When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist. The rich will accept talk of aid: for those of their own country and even for the Third World. But it is “not done” to talk too much about justice, rights,…

Beyond compassion: The central role of accountability in applying a human rights framework to health

Alicia Ely Yamin   Health and Human Rights 10/2 Published December 2008  When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist. The rich will accept talk of aid: for those of their own country and even for the Third World. But it is “not done” to talk too much about justice, rights, and…