Volume 21, Issue 2, December 2019

Table of Contents

Issue 21.2 features:

  • Special Section: Abortion in the Middle East and North Africa
  • Special Section: Abortion Law Reform
  • Special Section: Human Rights for Health across the United Nations 
  • General Papers

Special Section: Abortion in the Middle East and North Africa

in collaboration with Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway

EDITORIAL  The Limits of the Law: Abortion in the Middle East and North Africa
Irene Maffi and Liv Tønnessen
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The Politicization of Abortion and Hippocratic Disobedience in Islamist Sudan
Liv Tønnessen and Samia al-Nagar
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Moral Work and the Construction of Abortion Networks: Women’s Access to Safe Abortion in Lebanon
Zeina Fathallah
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Non-marital Pregnancies and Unmarried Women’s Search for Illegal Abortion in Morocco
Irene Capelli
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The Unique Landscape of Abortion Law and Access in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Sarrah Shahawy
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Neoliberal Health Restructuring, Neoconservatism and the Limits of Law: Erosion of Reproductive Rights in Turkey
Ayse Dayi
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The Right to Abortion in Tunisia after the Revolution of 2011: Legal, Medical, and Social Arrangements as Seen through Seven Abortion Stories
Irene Maffi and Malika Affes
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Special Section: Abortion Law Reform

EDITORIAL  Progress towards Decriminalization of Abortion and Universal Access to Safe Abortions: National Trends and Strategies
Marge Berer and Lesley Hoggart
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Eliminating Abortion from Criminal Law: A Just Cause
Ana Cristina González-Vélez, Carolina Melo-Arévalo, and Juliana Martínez-Londoño
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The Role of Reproductive Justice Movements in Challenging South Korea’s Abortion Ban
Sunhye Kim, Na Young, and Yurim Lee
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From the Grassroots to the Oireachtas: Abortion Law Reform in the Republic of Ireland
Anna Carnegie and Rachel Roth
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Abortion in Chile: The Long Road to Legalization and its Slow Implementation
Gloria Maira, Lidia Casas, and Lieta Vivaldi
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Rights-based Claims Made by UK Antiabortion Activists
Pam Lowe and Sarah-Jane Page
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Midwives and Post-abortion Care in Gabon: “Things have really changed”
Aimée Patricia Ndembi Ndembi, Justine Mekuí, Gail Pheterson, and Marijke Alblas
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They Are Girls, Not Mothers: The Violence of Forcing Motherhood on Young Girls in Latin America
Ximena Casas
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The Gambia’s Political Transition to Democracy: Is Abortion Reform Possible?
Satang Nabaneh
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Preventing State Harassment of Abortion Providers: The Work of the Legal Support Network in Latin America and East Africa
Ximena Casas, Mitchelle Kimathi-Osiemo, Dee Redwine, Claire Tebbets, Karen Plafker
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Denial of Safe Abortion to Survivors of Rape in India
Padma Bhate-Deosthali and Sangeeta Rege
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Special Section: Human Rights for Health across the United Nations

In collaboration with the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University, USA

EDITORIAL  Human Rights for Health across the United Nations
Benjamin Mason Meier and Lawrence O. Gostin
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Health and Human Rights’ Past: Patinating Law’s Contribution
Thérèse Murphy
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The Right(s) Road to Universal Health Coverage
Helena Nygren-Krug
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PERSPECTIVE  Universal Health Coverage: Are We Losing Our Way on Women’s and Children’s Health?
Flavia Bustreo and Curtis Doebbler
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UHC2030’s Contributions to Global Health Governance that Advance the Right to Health Care: A Preliminary Assessment
Rachel Hammonds, Gorik Ooms, Moses Mulumba, and Allan Maleche
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The Challenge of Interdisciplinarity in Operationalizing the Right to Health
Gillian MacNaughton and Mariah McGill
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The Universal Periodic Review: A Valuable New Procedure for the Right to Health?
Judith Bueno de Mesquita
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General Papers

EDITORIAL  25 Years: Exploring the Health and Human Rights Journey
Carmel Williams, Joseph J. Amon, Mary T. Bassett, Ana V. Diez Roux, and Paul E. Farmer
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Have Reforms Reconciled Health Rights Litigation and Priority Setting in Costa Rica?
Alessandro Luciano and Alex Voorhoeve
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“Hay que tener suerte”: Gender-based Violence Service Provision in Quito, Ecuador
Chiara Sabina and Diego Pérez Figueroa
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Evaluating the Impact of Student-run Asylum Clinics in the US from 2016–2018
Madison B. Sharp, Andrew R. Milewski, Claire Lamneck, and Katherine McKenzie
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Respect, Protect, and Fulfill—or Reject, Neglect, and Regress? Children’s Rights in the Time of the Russian “Gay Propaganda Law”
Caroline H. Voyles and Mariana Chilton
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