Category: Volume 16, Number 2

Promoting Equity in Health: What Role for Courts? Alicia Ely Yamin, JD MPH, Guest Editor Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/2 I am particularly delighted to introduce this special issue on health rights litigation on the 20th anniversary of the launch of Health and Human Rights.  The last 20 years have witnessed an extraordinary growth and evolution in the “health and human rights movement,” and this journal, which has also…

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Alicia Ely Yamin Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/2 This issue of Health and Human Rights is dedicated to the memory of Giulia Tamayo. In the course of preparing this special issue for publication, the world lost a tireless fighter for the causes of human rights, health rights, and social justice in the world. Giulia Tamayo was a beloved friend and mentor, as well as an inspiration. I first met…

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