Archive: 2012

Book Brief: Regulating Corporate Human Rights Violations

Regulating Corporate Human Rights Violations Surya Deva Routledge (January 2012) ISBN 9780415668217 296 pages $145 Surya Deva’s new book on the humanization of business sets out to address three crucial and timely questions: Why companies and…

Book Brief: Global Health and Global Health Ethics

Solomon Benatar and Gillian Brock Cambridge University Press, 2011 ISBN 9780521146777 350 pages $62 Benatar and Brock explore the obligations and challenges surrounding the improvement of global health in their new textbook, Global Health and Global…

Book Brief: The Right to Health

Gunilla Backman, ed. Studentlitteratur, 2012 ISBN 9789144067803 368 pages $50 The Right to Health, edited by Gunilla Backman, expounds on the central theme that a functioning, accessible, and non-discriminatory health system is necessary for the…

Obesity, NCDs, and the Right to Food

By Angela Duger Health and human rights professionals have long considered food and nutrition to be underlying determinants of health, but the focus has largely been on undernutrition. That focus is now changing. The World Health Organization (WHO)…