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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…

Health and Human Rights 13/1 Published June 2011   The first decade of the 21st century has seen devastating cyclones, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, and extreme temperatures. These natural phenomena continue to influence the lives of people…

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…

Children’s socio-economic rights, democracy and the courts. Aoife Nolan. Hart Publishing, 2011. ISBN 978-1841137698 (hardcover). 336 pages. $110. Aoife Nolan addresses a crucial and underdeveloped topic in the literature of human rights law: the…

Emmanuel Kabengele Mpinga, Henk Verloo, Leslie London, and Philippe Chastonay Abstract Background Over the past decades, the health and human rights movement has become a public health actor that cannot and should not be ignored when defining public…

Emmanuel Kabengele Mpinga, Henk Verloo, Leslie London, and Philippe Chastonay Health and Human Rights 13/2 Published December 2011 Abstract Background Over the past decades, the health and human rights movement has become a public health actor that…