Archive: 2022

Rosa González and Tamil Kendall In May 2022, the President of Chile made a historic public apology to Francisca, a woman living with HIV who was sterilized without her consent. The apology came  20 years after Francisca’s forced sterilization…

Sarthak Gupta and Pruthvirajsinh Zala In May 2022, an initial draft opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was leaked forewarning an overturn of the…

Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 179-181 |  PDF Pascal Tanguay, Anand Chabungbam, and Gino Vumbaca In 2012, the cosponsors of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) issued a statement calling for the closure of compulsory drug…

Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 85-91 |  PDF Lynette Mtimkulu-Eyde, Justin Denholm, Apurva Narain, Razia Fatima, Karuna D. Sagili, Rubeshan Perumal, and Nesri Padayatchi There is little doubt that vaccines represent one of the most significant…

Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 21-33 |  PDF Robin P. Love, Billie-Jo Hardy, Courtney Heffernan, Amber Heyd, Melissa Cardinal-Grant, Lori Sparling, Bonnie Healy, Janet Smylie, and Richard Long Abstract Indigenous rights to self-determination…

Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 35-47 |  PDF Linda Briskman, Corrinne T. Sullivan, Kim Spurway, John Leha, William Trewlynn, and Karen Soldatić Abstract The human rights of both LGBTIQ+ and Indigenous peoples are far from realized. When…