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By Ankur Asthana, Associate in Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Co-Founder of Article 25 Published December 9, 2014 As we approach the new year, many of us in global health will be keeping an eye on the new…

Published November 25, 2014 Health rights litigation is receiving much attention at Harvard’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and Harvard Law School. Under the direction of FXB policy director Alicia Ely Yamin, the Center recently hosted the…

By Patrick Donnelly Published November 20, 2014 Ebola demonstrates the critical link between health and human rights, the lack of governance, and the misdirection that befalls the international community in addressing such outbreaks. Human rights…

How Human Rights Can Build Haiti: Activists, Lawyers, and the Grassroots Campaign Fran Quigley Vanderbilt University Press (forthcoming September 2014) ISBN: 978-0-8265-4993-1 (cloth $35.00) 240 pages By Health and Human Rights editorial intern Laura…

Posted September 4, 2014 The new Special Rapporteur on the human right to health assumed his duties on August 1. Selected over the summer by the Human Rights Council, Dr. Dainius Pūras of Lithuania is the third individual to occupy the honorary…

Posted September 2, 2014 The first-ever global conference on health and climate change was hosted by WHO in Geneva from August 27-29. More than 300 invited participants attended the three-day forum, including UN agency heads, government…