Archive: 2014

Prioritizing Health: A Human Rights Analysis of Disaster, Vulnerability, and Urbanization in New Orleans and Port-au-Prince Climate change prompts increased urbanization and vulnerability to natural hazards. Urbanization processes are relevant to a…

Collective Violence Caused by Climate Change and How It Threatens Health and Human Rights The weight of scientific evidence indicates that climate change is causally associated with collective violence. This evidence arises from individual studies…

Climate Change, Children’s Rights, and the Pursuit of Intergenerational Climate Justice Frequently forgotten in the global discussions and agreements on climate change are children and young people, who both disproportionately suffer the consequences…

Advancing Climate Justice and the Right to Health Through Procedural Rights Scholars have increasingly recognized the ways in which climate change threatens the human rights of people around the world, with a disproportionate burden on the rights of…

Letter to the Editor Published May 14, 2014 Dear Editor, “The post-2015 development agenda, human rights, evidence, and open-access publishing” (editorial, Volume 15, Issue 2) highlighted the importance of including human rights on the…

The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, a member of the Health and Human Rights Consortium, shares the following update about a new book from Lawrence O. Gostin.  Georgetown University Law Center Professor and…