Archive: Aug 2015

TPPA protests in Auckland, New Zealand (photo courtesy of Rhys Jones) By Fran Quigley The most important update on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is that there is no Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. At least not yet. Shortly…

(photo credit Raul Lieberwirth) Harvard FXB Health and Human Rights Consortium Student Essay Competition 2015. Georgetown University’s winning essay was written for the course “Business and Healthy Lifestyles,” taught by Professor Roger Magnasson,…

Cobblestone street in Antigua, Guatemala (photo credit Pedro Szekely) Harvard FXB Health and Human Rights Consortium Student Essay Competition 2015. University of Connecticut’s winning essay was written for the course “The Right to Health in Latin…

Caption: Doctors Against the Border Force Act protesting in Brisbane, 8 August 2015 By Alison Blaiklock Doctors, health workers, teachers and other professionals across Australia continue to demonstrate against the legislation that bars health and…

By Unarose Hogan If I asked you to envision a country where reproductive health rights are denied to the extent that women must travel to neighboring countries for abortion “asylum” in 2015; where emergency contraception without a prescription became…

The Right to Health of the Child: An Analytical Exploration of the International Normative Framework S.I. Spronk-van der Meer Intersentia ISBN 978-1-78068-272-3 345 pages $29.95 By Health and Human Rights Journal intern Antonia Chan The Right to…