By Health and Human Rights communications assistant Gabrielle Tyson In an article published in the May 21 edition of The London Review of Books, Health and Human Rights Journal editor-in-chief, Paul Farmer, illuminates the staggering number of caregivers and physicians who not only gave their time and effort to fighting Ebola in West Africa, but ultimately their lives as well. Farmer notes the disparity in health care between the rich and the poor—a reality that most people…
NGO Collaboration Seeks Greater Accountability in the SDGs
By Health and Human Rights communications assistant Gabrielle Tyson The Post-2015 Development Agenda is under way and while many of the new Sustainable Development Goals will likely remain the same as for the MDGs, there is a need for a more effective and robust mechanism to review States’ progress in achieving these goals. The Center for Reproductive Rights, Amnesty International, The Center for Economic and Social Rights, and Human Rights Watch…
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Book Brief: The Right to Health at the Public/Private Divide
The Right to Health at the Public/Private Divide Colleen M. Flood and Aeyal Gross Cambridge University Press, 2014 ISBN 9781107038301 492 pages $120 By Health and Human Rights communications assistant Gabrielle Tyson Published April 7, 2015 The Right to Health at the Public/Private Divide broaches a subject central to the current American and global political debate: the right to health care. Flood and Gross put together a comparative study of 16…
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Interview: Brook Baker on Intellectual Property Rights, Free Trade, and Access to Medicines
By Katrina Geddes When I first meet Northeastern University law professor Brook Baker, it’s a bitterly cold day in Boston. It’s a relief to escape into the warmth of Baker’s office, tucked away inside Northeastern’s Cargill Hall, where I am to meet with the prominent professor who focuses on intellectual property, access to medicines, and increasing the legal, economic, and policy response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Baker’s office is…
HIV Stigma in Health Care Settings: A Need for Greater Partnership of Doctors and Lawyers in Ending AIDS
By Theresa Cheng The global health community has been debating when we will reach the end of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. 1 As of 2012, 96% of governments had stepped up to the challenges of managing the epidemic within their own borders by redoubling country investments and integrating HIV planning with national health agendas.2 However, it is increasingly apparent that ending AIDS cannot be achieved without national plans that address gender…
Paul Hunt’s TED Talk: Do Human Rights Work?
Paul Hunt, the first Special Rapporteur on the right to health, and guest editor of the forthcoming December 2015 issue of Health and Human Rights Journal, takes his TED audience on a journey to question the validity of his young son’s observation that his dad’s work “doesn’t work.” At the heart of Hunt’s talk is the call to gather more evidence to refute claims that a human rights based approach…
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Right to Health Movement Building Through a Global Vote
By Ankur Asthana, Associate in Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Co-Founder of Article 25 Published December 9, 2014 As we approach the new year, many of us in global health will be keeping an eye on the new post-2015 development agenda. Recently, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon released his synthesis report on the post-2015 goals where he committed to keeping intact all 17 goals and 169 targets…
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Sexual and Reproductive Rights Litigation Draws World Experts
Published November 25, 2014 Health rights litigation is receiving much attention at Harvard’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and Harvard Law School. Under the direction of FXB policy director Alicia Ely Yamin, the Center recently hosted the third annual course on health rights litigation as part of the Global School on Socioeconomic Rights. This year’s course focused exclusively on sexual and reproductive rights (SRR) litigation, including such topics…
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Ebola and Human Rights: Insight from Experts
By Patrick Donnelly Published November 20, 2014 Ebola demonstrates the critical link between health and human rights, the lack of governance, and the misdirection that befalls the international community in addressing such outbreaks. Human rights experts agree that the Ebola response falls into Lawrence Gostin’s paradigm whereby “the perception persists that disease threats originate in the global South, requiring international law to prevent their spread to affluent regions.”1 In the…
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Book Brief – How Human Rights Can Build Haiti: Activists, Lawyers, and the Grassroots Campaign
How Human Rights Can Build Haiti: Activists, Lawyers, and the Grassroots Campaign Fran Quigley Vanderbilt University Press (forthcoming September 2014) ISBN: 978-0-8265-4993-1 (cloth $35.00) 240 pages By Health and Human Rights editorial intern Laura Faas How Human Rights Can Build Haiti: Activists, Lawyers, and the Grassroots Campaign presents the legal and grassroots battles in Haiti as human rights-based strategies that are both practical and attainable in the fight for social justice.…