Perspectives

Cobblestone street in Antigua, Guatemala (photo credit Pedro Szekely) Harvard FXB Health and Human Rights Consortium Student Essay Competition 2015. University of Connecticut’s winning essay was written for the course “The Right to Health in Latin…

Buddha Basnyat When the earth shook violently at midday in Nepal on April 25, 2015, I was walking down my concrete staircase. As I was hurtled from side to side, I was certain I would die. Luckily, I didn’t. This was a pure privilege in the midst of…

Ross MacDonald, Zachary Rosner, Homer Venters Since the United Nations Convention Against Torture was adopted in 1984, training physicians to care for survivors of torture has become a valuable addition to traditional medical education. Throughout the…

Solitary Confinement and Mental Illness: Ethical Challenges for Clinicians; In Response to Glowa-Kollisch et al. Thomas R. Blair Keramet A. Reiter Published July 2, 2015 To the Editors: Glowa-Kollisch and colleagues present a…

Fran Quigley Representatives of Pacific Rim nations are negotiating a trade agreement that could negatively impact the health of millions. But the high-profile discussion about the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) also presents an…

Agnès Binagwaho, Richard Freeman, Kirstin Scott, Anne Badrichani, Sardis Harward, Monique Mulindahabi, Corine Karema Published April 14, 2015 The procurement of high-quality medicines to combat major causes of avoidable suffering in sub-Saharan…

Tripti Tandon, Gabriel Armas-Cardona, Anand Grover Sex work and its relationship to trafficking is one of the more divisive policy issues of our times, as seen in the ongoing debate in Canada over a bill that views prostitution as inherently…

Daniel Alzate Mora Published September 23, 2014 This essay presents a critical view of the standard interpretation of the Constitutional Court of Colombia’s (the Court’s) role in health litigation. Although at first glance Colombia represents a…

Namusobya Salima Published September 23, 2014 Strategic litigation in response to human rights violations is an increasing practice around the world.[1] Health rights litigation is undertaken to give effect to the right to the highest attainable…

By Joseph J. Amon Published September 11, 2014 Three databases have launched in recent years that provide information on law, human rights, and health. LawAtlas, the Global Health and Human Rights database, and the Doctors Who Torture…