Archive: 2021

Volume 23/2, December 2021, pp. 167-172  |  PDF Monica Gagnon, Rebecca Cheff, and Lisa Forman Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity for reflection on universal health coverage. We look at the case of the province of…

Volume 23/2, December 2021, pp. 187-200  |  PDF Taylor W. Burkholder, Madeline Ross, Lily Vartanyan, and Harveen Bergquist Abstract National constitutions are important tools for the realization of the right to health, and…

Tamar Ezer and Denise Tomasini-Joshi The United States, with its inadequate social safety net and lack of community-based mental health resources, has come to rely on the criminal legal system to respond to mental health needs. “The mental health…

News UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has called on states to take bold actions to give prompt and real effect to the right to a healthy environment, following a UN Human Rights Council’s landmark decision to recognise a clean,…

A. Kayum Ahmed, Achal Prabhala, Julia Greenberg, Ames Dhai, and Usuf Chikte Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) decision to export COVID-19 vaccines manufactured in South Africa and India to Europe, ahead of supplying both countries or their respective…

Volume 23/2, December 2021, pp. 239-251  |  PDF Susanna Every-Palmer, Leah Kininmonth, Giles Newton-Howes, and Sarah Gordon Abstract Despite the imperatives to reduce coercive practices such as substitute decision-making, seclusion,…