Archive

Abstract – Fanm ayisyen pap kase: Respecting the right to health of Haitian women and girls1 Lisa Davis and Blaine Bookey Abstract Only in recent years has violence against women begun to receive international attention as both a public health and…

Identification of human trafficking victims in health care setting
Susie B. Baldwin, David P. Eisenman, Jennifer N. Sayles, Gery Ryan, Kenneth S. Chuang Health and Human Rights 13/1 Published June 2011 Abstract Background An estimated 18,000 individuals are trafficked into the United States each year from all over the…

Intersection 4: Building health and human rights into communities
Health and Human Rights 13/1 Published June 2011 The importance of creating a “culture of human rights” at the community level is typically discussed in relation to warfare and other forms of official violence. Only rarely do health and other key social…

Intersection 2: Non-communicable diseases and global health equity
Health and Human Rights 13/1 Published June 2011 As recently as 1990, most illness worldwide was attributed to pneumonia, diarrheal disease, and perinatal infection. It is now recognized that by 2020, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) will be responsible…

Editorial: Intersections of health and human rights
Health and Human Rights 13/1 Published June 2011   Shortly before his death, Jonathan Mann, the founding editor of this journal, imagined its major fields of inquiry as two perpendicular axes describing different dimensions of human well-being. The…