Archive: 2015

Diego S. Silva, Maxwell J. Smith Health and Human Rights 17/1 Published June 11, 2015 One of the key components of CESCR General Comment No. 14: The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health (GC 14) is the recognition that human rights are…

Joanna N. Erdman Health and Human Rights 17/1 Published June 11, 2015 The global reproductive justice community has turned its attention to the abuse and disrespect that many women suffer during facility-based childbirth. In 2014, the World Health…

Bioethics and the Right to Health: Advancing a Complementary Agenda Jennifer L. Gibson, PhD, Lisa Forman, SJD, Stephanie A. Nixon, PT, PhD Guest Editors Health and Human Rights 2015, 17/1 Published June 11, 2015 This special section in Health…

By Health and Human Rights communications assistant Gabrielle Tyson In an article published in the May 21 edition of The London Review of Books, Health and Human Rights Journal editor-in-chief, Paul Farmer, illuminates the…

Lisa Maher, Thomas Crewe Dixon, Pisith Phlong, Julie Mooney-Somers, Ellen S. Stein, Kimberly Page Health and Human Rights 17/1 Published June 11, 2015 Abstract While repressive laws and policies in relation to sex work have the potential to…

Gillian MacNaughton Health and Human Rights 17/1 Published June 11, 2015 Abstract Two decades ago, Lawrence Gostin and Jonathan Mann developed a methodology for human rights impact assessment (HRIA) of proposed public health policies. This…