Archive: Tue Dec 2020

Tolu Oni, Estelle V. Lambert, and Kent Buse The COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated a global humanitarian crisis, the nature of which has brought health and economic disparities sharply into focus and opened a wide-ranging human rights dialogue. This…

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp 299-307 PDF Maritza Vasquez Reyes Introduction We all have been affected by the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, the impact of the pandemic and its consequences are felt differently depending on our status as…

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp 297 – 298 PDF Paul Hunt Foundations of Global Health and Human Rights, edited by Lawrence O. Gostin and Benjamin Mason Meier, Oxford University Press, 2020. Over the last 25 years, the Health and Human…

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp 291 – 296 PDF Vasileia Digidiki and Jacqueline Bhabha On September 23, 2020, the European Commission released its draft Pact on Asylum and Migration.[1] The timing was not coincidental. Just two weeks…

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp 271 – 384 PDF Agustina Ramón Michel, Stephanie Kung, Alyse López-Salm, and Sonia Ariza Navarrete Abstract Claims of conscientious objection (CO) have expanded in the health care field, particularly in…

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp 257 – 270 PDF Bronwyn McBride, Kate Shannon, Brittany Bingham, Melissa Braschel, Steffanie Strathdee, and Shira M. Goldenberg Abstract Sex workers globally face high levels of violence. In Canada,…