Violeta Zopunyan, Suren Krmoya, Ryan Quinn Health and Human Rights 15/2 Published December 2013 Abstract Background: Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Republic of Armenia has undergone an extensive legislative overhaul. Although a number of developments have aimed to improve the quality and accessibility of Armenia’s health care system, a host of factors has prevented the country from fully introducing measures to ensure respect for human rights in…
Farm labor, reproductive justice: Migrant women farmworkers in the US
Charlene Galarneau Health and Human Rights 15/1 Published June 2013 Abstract Little is known about the reproductive health of women migrant farmworkers in the US. The health and rights of these workers are advanced by fundamental human rights principles that are sometimes conceptually and operationally siloed into three approaches: reproductive health, reproductive rights, and reproductive justice. I focus on the latter framework, as it lends critical attention to the structural…
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Traditional/alternative medicines and the right to health: Key elements for a convention on global health
Emmanuel Kabengele Mpinga, Tshimungu Kandolo, Henk Verloo, Ngoyi K. Zacharie Bukonda, Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, Philippe Chastonay Health and Human Rights 15/1 Published June 2013 Abstract Little has been done to investigate and promote the importance of non-conventional medicines (NCMs) in the realization of the right to health, yet all over the world people regularly resort to NCMs to secure healing or to prevent or mitigate the occurrence of a wide range…
The Framework Convention on Global Health: A tool for empowering the HIV/AIDS movements in Senegal and South Africa
Ella Scheepers Health and Human Rights 15/1 Published June 2013 Abstract Despite the Alma Ata-inspired slogan “health for all by 2000,” the world remains afflicted with poor health in the second decade of the 21st century.1 This situation has generated much debate, and as a result, national and global responses have arguably entered a new era, building on the past success and failures of health movements, most notably on the…
Advancing the right to health through global organizations: The potential role of a Framework Convention on Global Health
Eric A. Friedman, Lawrence O. Gostin, Kent Buse Health and Human Rights 15/1 Published June 2013 Abstract Organizations, partnerships, and alliances form the building blocks of global governance. Global health organizations thus have the potential to play a formative role in determining the extent to which people are able to realize their right to health. This article examines how major global health organizations, such as WHO, the Global Fund to…
The right of children in developing countries to be born and live HIV-free
Agnès Binagwaho Health and Human Rights 10/1 Published June 2008 Ten years ago, in international public health circles, it was common to suppose that people with HIV in developing countries had no right to life — although health experts avoided stating the point quite so bluntly. The problem was that survival for those in advanced stages of AIDS depended on their receiving triple therapy with antiretroviral medicines (ARVs) —…
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The catalytic synergy of health and human rights: The People’s Health Movement and the Right to Health and Health Care Campaign
Laura Turiano and Lanny Smith Health and Human Rights 10/1 Published June 2008 The move from many to everyone is a small semantic shift, but one with extraordinarily radical consequences. – Hardt and Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire1 Abstract The People’s Health Movement (PHM) is a global network at the intersection of many health and human rights organizations that has articulated and attempted to put into practice a human rights-based approach…
From market competition to solidarity? Assessing the prospects of US health care reform plans from a human rights perspective
Anja Rudiger Health and Human Rights 10/1 Published June 2008 Abstract Although the crisis of health care in the United States is widely acknowledged – marked by poor health outcomes, high costs, unequal access, and widening health inequities – its structural underpinnings have not been adequately addressed, and reformers have settled on promoting piecemeal measures to avoid disruption. The human right to health care offers an analytical and advocacy…
“Nationals” and “expatriates”: Challenges of fulfilling “sans frontières” (“without borders”) ideals in international humanitarian action
Olga Shevchenko and Renée C. Fox Health and Human Rights 10/1 Published June 2008 Abstract The international humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is strongly committed to principles of universalism, egalitarianism, and equity, in both its internal and external relations. Nevertheless, the organization distinguishes between so-called “national” staff members (those who are indigenous to the countries where MSF projects are located), and “expatriate” staff (those who are involved…
Abstract – Notes on the rights of a poor woman in a poor country
Tarek Meguid Health and Human Rights 10/1 Published June 2008 It is possible to adapt to a given situation precisely because you have got to live it, and you have got to live it every day. But adapting does not mean that you forget. You go to the mill every day — it is always unacceptable to you, it has always been unacceptable to you, and it remains so…
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