Volume 3, Issue 2, 1998

Special Focus: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Edited by the Consortium for Health and Human Rights

This issue of the Journal is dedicated to Jonathan Mann 1947-1998

Sofia Gruskin

Editorial

A Call to Action on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the UDHR

Writing Group for the Consortium for Health and Human Rights

Commentary

Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the UDHR

Kofi A. Annan

The UDHR: Fifty Years of Synergy Between Health and Human Rights

Gro Harlem Brundtland

The UDHR: Hope and History

Mary Robinson

The Articles of the UDHR

Article 1: Dignity and Health: The UDHR’s Revolutionary First

Jonathan Mann

Article 14: Third Class Medicine: Health Care for Refugees in Germany

Christian Pross

Article 16: For Better, For Worse

Ingar Brueggemann and Karen Newman

Article 19: Freedom of Expression and the Healthy Society

James Welsh

Article 25: Poverty and Health: Debt Relief Could Help Achieve Human Rights Objectives

Dorothy Logie and Michael Rowson

Article 26: Education, A Health Imperative: The Case of Afghanistan

Vincent Iacopino and Zohra Rasekh

Article 28: The Right to a Just and Peaceful Social and International Order

Victor W. Sidel

Thematic Analyses

Health, Medicine, and Science in the UDHR

Richard Pierre Claude and Bernardo W. Issel

The UDHR in National and International Law

Hurst Hannum

The UDHR and the Limits of Medical Ethics: The Case of South Africa

Leonard Rubenstein and Leslie London

Annexes

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Members of the Consortium for Health and Human Rights