Archive: Jun 2023

Audrey Chapman Access to sexual and reproductive health care is a fundamental right that all states must respect, protect, and fulfil, and is articulated in regional and international treaties including the International Covenant on Economic, Social…

Alexandrine Pirlot de Corbion and Timothy Wafula Digital technology and its benefits and risks to the right to health are the focus of the latest report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health. Tlaleng Mofokeng, the Special…

Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 207-212  PDF PERSPECTIVE A. Kayum Ahmed, Joe Baker, and Hadrien Coumans Introduction Human rights have historically advanced an anthropocentric world view that reinforces the right to health of human beings,…

Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 195-206  PDF PERSPECTIVE Marge Berer Abstract This paper proposes that US human rights experts and abortion rights advocates challenge the striking down of Roe v. Wade in June 2022 by the majority of US Supreme Court…

Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 185-194   PDF Alicia Ely Yamin Abstract After considerable progress in recent decades, maternal mortality and morbidity (MMM) either stagnated or worsened in most regions of the globe between 2016 and 2020. The…