Issues

PDF Padma Bhate-Deosthali and Sangeeta Rege Abstract Access to abortion is desperately needed when pregnancy is the result of rape, both within and outside marriage, and especially when a girl has been raped. The availability of services…

PDF Benjamin Mason Meier and Lawrence O. Gostin Introduction The United Nations (UN) plays a central role in realizing human rights to advance global health. Looking beyond state obligations, the UN has called on all its specialized agencies to…

PDF Judith Bueno De Mesquita Abstract The right to health has been cast in increasingly broad terms in international human rights law, not only as a right to health care but also as a right to an ever more broad range of underlying and social…

PDF Chiara Sabina and Diego Pérez Figueroa Abstract This study utilized the United Nations’ Essential Services Package for Women and Girls Subject to Violence, a technical guidebook on quality services in line with human rights declarations, to…

PDF Helena Nygren-Krug Abstract The political momentum around universal health coverage (UHC) provides a welcome opportunity to scale up efforts to dismantle barriers to accessing health services and to create enabling environments for people to…

PDF Ximena Casas Abstract Rape of girls under the age of 14 is common in Latin America, and forced pregnancy and motherhood among these girls is a major public health and human rights problem. Even though abortion in the case of rape is legal in…