Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 1 – 6 PDF Audrey Chapman, Carmel Williams, Julie Hannah, and Dainius Pūras When we planned the special section of this issue and distributed our call for papers, we wanted to present a collection that would reflect our view that not only is there is no health without mental health, but there is no mental health without human rights. We were hopeful that papers from…
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Marie Claire Van Hout and Elie Aaraj It is imperative that governments and prison authorities in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region accept the presence of sexual and drug related virus transmission in prisons and use evidence-based approaches of harm reduction (HR) to tackle the spread of disease among prisoners and on their return to communities.[1] This imperative coincides with the COVID-19 pandemic, and the instigation by many…
Challenging Abortion Rights: Proposed Legislation in Italy Daniel Pizzolato, Dorothea Chatzikonstantinou, and Alice Cavolo, 22 April 2024 To Achieve a Healthier World, Global Health Law and Policy Must Be Grounded in Human Rights Book Review by David Patterson, 8 April 2024 US Clinicians Face a Dual Loyalty Crisis over Reproductive Health Care Ranit Mishori, Payal K. Shah, Karen Naimer, and Michele Heisler, 3 March 2024 Fighting the (Mis)fortunes in Global…
Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 187 – 198 PDF Altaf Saadi, Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young, Caitlin Patler, Jeremias Leonel Estrada, and Homer Venters Abstract A crisis of mass immigration detention exists in the United States, which is home to the world’s largest immigration detention system. The immigration detention system is legally classified as civil, rather than criminal, and therefore non-punitive. Yet it mimics the criminal incarceration system and holds detained…
Sara L.M. Davis The COVID-19 lockdown has proven economically devastating, and to enable people to move freely and start national economies moving also, many governments are exploring digital contact tracing. Mobile phone apps that track individual movements can enable real-time health surveillance and case management. However, once it exists, that data on health and individual movements can pose real threats for everyone—particularly for women and girls, and for marginalized and…
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Nina Sun The COVID-19 pandemic is a public health emergency—as of 23 April 2020 there were over 2.7 million cases, with over 190,000 deaths globally.[1] Under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), states may restrict certain rights during public emergencies that threaten the life of the nation to the extent that they are “strictly required by the exigencies of the situation.”[2] COVID-19 can be a fatal disease…
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Roundtable Discussions can focus on a wide range of issues, including exploring specific rights issues, current debates, and historical perspectives. A Virtual Roundtable on the Impact of Human Rights Council Reports on Mental Health 8 December 2022 A Virtual Roundtable on Compulsory Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation, Health, and Human Rights in Asia 8 June 2022 A Virtual Roundtable on Equitable COVID-19 Vaccine Access 20 May 2021 A Virtual Roundtable with…
Jacqueline Bhabha, Margaret M. Sullivan, and Mary T. Bassett The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a near universal closure of schools. By 20 March, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) had documented closures in 119 countries, 107 of which were nationwide. The number of children kept from school numbers in the hundreds of millions. At this time, at least 95,000 schools across the United States have been…
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Alicia Ely Yamin and Roojin Habibi It has scarcely been a month since COVID-19 (then simply known as the disease caused by a novel ‘coronavirus’) was declared a “public health emergency of international concern”. The virus has since travelled to every continent except Antarctica, and prompted at least 80 travel restrictions against China, with many others now targeting secondarily affected countries, such as Iran, Italy, and South Korea.[1] Although World…
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