Mutamad Amin, Malcolm MacLachlan, Hasheem Mannan, Shahla El Tayeb, Amani El Khatim, Leslie Swartz, Alister Munthali, Gert Van Rooy, Joanne McVeigh, Arne Eide, and Marguerite Schneider Health and Human Rights 13/2 Published December 2011 Abstract Ensuring that health policies uphold core concepts of human rights and are inclusive of vulnerable groups are imperative aspects of providing equity in health care, and of realizing the United Nations’ call for Health for…
Developing a human rights-based program for tuberculosis control in Georgian prisons
Medea Gegia, Iagor Kalandadze, Mikheil Madzgharashvili, and Jennifer Furin Health and Human Rights 13/2 Published December 2011 Abstract Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading infectious killers of adults globally. Incarcerated individuals represent a vulnerable population when it comes to TB exposure, development of disease, and poor treatment outcomes. The TB pandemic in prisons is a serious human rights issue, and multiple global organizations have called for human rights-based strategies…
The health and human rights of survivors of gun violence: Charting a research and policy agenda
Cate Buchanan Health and Human Rights 13/2 Published December 2011 Abstract The health and human rights implications of violently acquired impairments (VAI), specifically gun-related injuries and trauma resulting in disability, represent an overlooked public policy concern. For several decades, detailed attention has been committed to better understanding of the international arms trade and its consequences. A discursive shift in the last decade from “small arms control” as the core objective…
International law, national policymaking, and the health of trafficked people in the UK
Siân Oram, Cathy Zimmerman, Brad Adams, and Joanna Busza Health and Human Rights 13/2 Published December 2011 Abstract Background Human trafficking has been recognized both by the international community and many individual states around the world as a serious violation of human rights. Trafficking is associated with extreme violence and a range of physical, mental, and sexual health consequences. Despite the extreme nature of the harm caused by human trafficking,…
Human rights and health disparities for migrant workers in the UAE
Sevil Sönmez, Yorghos Apostopoulos, Diane Tran, and Shantyana Rentrope Health and Human Rights 13/2 Published December 2011 Abstract Systematic violations of migrant workers’ human rights and striking health disparities among these populations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are the norm in member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Migrant laborers comprise about 90 percent of the UAE workforce and include approximately 500,000 construction workers and 450,000 domestic…
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Child rights, right to water and sanitation, and human security
Ross Pink Health and Human Rights 14/1 Published June 2012 Abstract The article explores the intersection between child rights, water scarcity, sanitation, and the human security paradigm. The recognition of child rights has been advanced through the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international legal instruments, while water rights are increasingly affirmed in international law and through the historic July 2010 United Nations General Assembly resolution…
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Abstract – Filling the gap: A Learning Network for Health and Human Rights in the Western Cape, South Africa
Leslie London, Nicolé Fick, Khai Hoan Tram, Maria Stuttaford Health and Human Rights 14/1 Published June 2012 Abstract We draw on the experience of a Learning Network for Health and Human Rights (LN) involving collaboration between academic institutions and civil society organizations in the Western Cape, South Africa, aimed at identifying and disseminating best practice related to the right to health. The LN’s work in materials development, participatory research, training…
Filling the gap: A Learning Network for Health and Human Rights in the Western Cape, South Africa
Leslie London, Nicolé Fick, Khai Hoan Tram, Maria Stuttaford Health and Human Rights 14/1 Published June 2012 Abstract We draw on the experience of a Learning Network for Health and Human Rights (LN) involving collaboration between academic institutions and civil society organizations in the Western Cape, South Africa, aimed at identifying and disseminating best practice related to the right to health. The LN’s work in materials development, participatory research, training…
Bridging international law and rights-based litigation: Mapping health-related rights through the development of the Global Health and Human Rights Database
Benjamin Mason Meier, Oscar A. Cabrera, Ana Ayala, Lawrence O. Gostin Health and Human Rights 14/1 Published June 2012 Abstract The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, the World Health Organization, and the Lawyers Collective have come together to develop a searchable Global Health and Human Rights Database that maps the intersection of health and human rights in judgments, international and regional instruments, and national…
Associations between human rights environments and healthy longevity: The case of older persons in China
Bethany L. Brown, Li Qiu, and Danan Gu Health and Human rights 14/2 Published December 2012 Abstract Individual health can deteriorate through neglect or violation of human rights or can improve through favorable health policies and programs on human rights. Yet quantitative associations between human rights and health are insufficiently studied. Based on a nationwide dataset of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS) with more than 18,800 adults aged…