Benjamin Mason Meier, Hanna E. Huffstetler, and Roojin Habibi Global health law is essential in framing national responses to the globalized threats of infectious disease, yet the legal foundations of the global health system are now being tested as never before. The International Health Regulations (IHR), the principal international legal framework governing infectious disease control, are designed to promote global health security while respecting human rights imperatives. Revised in 2005…
Katherine C. McKenzie, Eleanor Emery, Kathryn Hampton, and Sural Shah President Donald Trump has made abolishing most immigration a priority of his administration, and his policies have resulted in the de facto dismantling of asylum in the United States. These changes have impacted the lives and health of countless individuals attempting to seek safety from persecution. Settled asylum law is challenged regularly and uncertainty has stymied how attorneys, human rights…
Benjamin Mason Meier and Tamira Daniely The United Nations Human Rights Council appoints Special Rapporteurs on specific human rights themes, with these independent experts holding an official mandate to monitor violations and promote rights. Facilitating accountability for human rights realization, Special Rapporteurs support rights advancement through country missions, government communications, public statements, and Council reports. To advance the right to health, the Commission on Human Rights (the predecessor to the…
Katherine R. Peeler and Vidya Kumar Ramanathan Judge Dolly Gee’s recent order mandating the release of all detained immigrant children from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Family Residential Centers (FRCs) was an incredible step forward for securing the health and safety of these children. But if our country’s three family detention centers are empty of children on July 17th–the mandated deadline for release–this will not be a victory. We will…
Sara L.M. Davis For decades, the International AIDS Conference has successfully convened a massive biannual meeting, bringing together a diverse community of scientists, researchers, activists and officials, as well as a smattering of celebrities. At a turning point with a battered global strategy and the devastation caused by a second global pandemic, COVID-19, the global AIDS movement has never been in more urgent need of such frank and diverse conversations.…
Table of Contents Issue 22.1 features: Special Section: Mental Health and Human Rights General Papers Viewpoints Virtual Roundtable TABLE OF CONTENTS/FRONT MATTER Special Section: Mental Health and Human Rights EDITORIAL Reimagining the Mental Health Paradigm for our Collective Well-Being Audrey Chapman, Carmel Williams, Julie Hannah, and Dainius Pūras HTML | PDF Human Rights and the Confinement of People Living with Dementia in Care Homes Linda Steele, Ray Carr, Kate Swaffer, Lyn Phillipson,…
Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 35 – 50 PDF Faraaz Mahomed Abstract Throughout the world, mental health remains a neglected priority, low on the agenda of policy makers and funders at the national and international levels. While this is shifting somewhat, there remains a considerable need to address the underprioritization of mental health and well-being, perhaps even more so in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, given the history…
Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 221 – 236 PDF Mariana P. Socal, Joseph J. Amon, and João Biehl Abstract Over the past three decades, Brazil has developed a decentralized universal health system and achieved significant advances in key health indicators. At the same time, Brazil’s health system has struggled to ensure equitable and quality health services. One response to the broad promises and notable shortcomings has been a sharp rise…
Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 145 – 150 PDF José Carlos Bouso and Constanza Sánchez-Avilés Introduction: Global mental health and traditional medicines The global mental health (GMH) movement aims to establish a world in which every human can access mental health services based on two fundamental principles: respect for human rights and evidence-based treatments. Despite being criticized, especially for its neocolonial tendency to impose psychiatric systems that defy local epistemologies,…
Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 163 – 178 PDF Laura Davidson Abstract The practice of coercion on the basis of psychosocial disability is plainly discriminatory. This has resulted in a demand from the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (the CRPD Committee) for a paradigm shift away from the traditional biomedical model and a global ban on compulsion in the psychiatric context. However, that has not occurred. This…
