Donna Perry, Christian Guillermet Fernández, David Fernández Puyana The inclusion of peace as a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) is an important milestone and achievement. Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Agenda) is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity.1 It also seeks to strengthen universal peace within a larger freedom. SDG 16 calls for humanity to “Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide…
SDG SERIES: Inconsistent translation from science to practice: SDGs and the health impacts of climate change
Cecilia Sorensen and Jay Lemery In the upcoming weeks, the UN will choose how seriously to commit political resources to halt climate change. Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Agenda) addresses halting climate change as an overall goal but does not use climate science to underpin all the other goals upon which climate change will undoubtedly impact.1 Nor does Agenda convincingly acknowledge the link between climate, poverty…
The Right to Life in Peace: An Essential Condition for Realizing the Right to Health
Donna J. Perry, Christian Guillermet Fernández, David Fernández Puyana Health and Human Rights 17/1 Published June 11, 2015 Abstract Since 2008, the UN Human Rights Council has been working on a declaration related to the right to peace. The Council has established an Open-Ended Working Group, which is refining the draft declaration. This paper discusses the relationship between the right to health and the right to life in peace; we argue…
Commentary: Bioethics, Human Rights, and Childbirth
Joanna N. Erdman Health and Human Rights 17/1 Published June 11, 2015 The global reproductive justice community has turned its attention to the abuse and disrespect that many women suffer during facility-based childbirth. In 2014, the World Health Organization released a statement on the issue, endorsed by more than 80 civil society and health professional organizations worldwide.1 The statement acknowledges a growing body of research that shows widespread patterns of…
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Editorial
Bioethics and the Right to Health: Advancing a Complementary Agenda Jennifer L. Gibson, PhD, Lisa Forman, SJD, Stephanie A. Nixon, PT, PhD Guest Editors Health and Human Rights 2015, 17/1 Published June 11, 2015 This special section in Health and Human Rights Journal explores the relationship between bioethics and the right to health. Although bioethics scholars may argue for a right to health, particularly in the domains of universal health…
Conflicting Rights: How the Prohibition of Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation Infringes the Right to Health of Female Sex Workers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Lisa Maher, Thomas Crewe Dixon, Pisith Phlong, Julie Mooney-Somers, Ellen S. Stein, Kimberly Page Health and Human Rights 17/1 Published June 11, 2015 Abstract While repressive laws and policies in relation to sex work have the potential to undermine HIV prevention efforts, empirical research on their interface has been lacking. In 2008, Cambodia introduced anti-trafficking legislation ostensibly designed to suppress human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Based on empirical research with…
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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Reproductive Rights or Reproductive Justice? Lessons from Argentina
Lynn M. Morgan Health and Human Rights 17/1 Published June 11, 2015 Abstract Argentine sexual and reproductive rights activists insist on using the language and framework of “human rights,” even when many reproductive rights activists in the United States and elsewhere now prefer the framework of “reproductive justice.” Reflecting on conversations with Argentine feminist anthropologists, social scientists, and reproductive rights activists, this paper analyzes why the Argentine movement to legalize…
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Data-Driven Human Rights: Using Dual Loyalty Trainings to Promote the Care of Vulnerable Patients in Jail
Sarah Glowa-Kollisch, Jasmine Graves, Nathaniel Dickey, Ross MacDonald, Zachary Rosner, Anthony Waters, Homer Venters Health and Human Rights 17/1 Published June 11, 2015 Abstract Dual loyalty is an omnipresent feature of correctional health. As part of a human rights quality improvement committee, and utilizing the unique advantage of a fully integrated electronic health record system, we undertook an assessment of dual loyalty in the New York City jail system. The…
Four Strategic Pathways for the Realization of the Right to Health Through Civil Society Actions: Challenges and Practical Lessons Learned in the Egyptian Context
Ayman Sabae Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/2 Abstract This article examines four distinctly different, yet fully complementary, strategic pathways adopted by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), an Egyptian independent human rights organization, in its practical efforts to protect and guarantee the realization of the right to health to all Egyptians. It reflects upon practical experiences, covering strategic options that include proposing new legislation to policy makers, participatory…