Archive: Aug 2012

Jeremy Youde Polity Press (June 2012) ISBN 9780745653099 188 pages $24.95 With a mixed approach combining the international legal environment with increasingly pressing global health issues, Jeremy Youde’s Global Health Governance provides an…

Maude Barlow The New Press (June 2009) ISBN 9781595584533 196 pages $16.95 In Blue Covenant, Maude Barlow seeks to impress upon the reader the importance of sustainable and equitable access to safe drinking water. Starting with a thorough account of why…

An IPS article reports on the human rights violations and health plight of thousands in eastern Myanmar, a region experiencing frequent conflict along the volatile Thai-Myanmar border. The communities in this area are considered “highly vulnerable” and…