Volume 22, Issue 1, June 2020

Table of Contents

Issue 22.1 features:

Special Section: Mental Health and Human Rights


EDITORIAL Reimagining the Mental Health Paradigm for our Collective Well-Being

Audrey Chapman, Carmel Williams, Julie Hannah, and Dainius Pūras
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Human Rights and the Confinement of People Living with Dementia in Care Homes
Linda Steele, Ray Carr, Kate Swaffer, Lyn Phillipson, and Richard Fleming
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Adherence to the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities in Czech Psychiatric Hospitals: A Nationwide Evaluation Study
Petr Winkler, Lucie Kondrátová, Anna Kagstrom, Matěj Kučera, Tereza Palánová, Marie Salomonová, Petr Šturma, Zbyněk Roboch, and Melita Murko
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Addressing the Problem of Severe Underinvestment in Mental Health and Well-Being from a Human Rights Perspective
Faraaz Mahomed
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Human Rights, Stigma, and Substance Use
Jenifer Wogen and Maria Teresa Restrepo
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Mental Health as a Basic Human Right and the Interference of Commercialized Science
Lisa Cosgrove and Allen F. Shaughnessy
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PERSPECTIVE WHO’s QualityRights Initiative: Transforming Services and Promoting Rights in Mental Health
Michelle Funk and Natalie Drew Bold
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Arctic Suicide, Social Medicine, and the Purview of Care in Global Mental Health
Lucas Trout and Lisa Wexler
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Exploring the Potential of a Rights-Based Approach to Work and Social Inclusion for People with Lived Experience of Mental Illness in Ghana
Ursula M. Read, Lionel Sakyi, and Wendy Abbey
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Crisis Response as a Human Rights Flashpoint: Critical Elements of Community Support for Individuals Experiencing Significant Emotional Distress
Peter Stastny, Anne M. Lovell, Julie Hannah, Daniel Goulart, Alberto Vasquez, Seana O’Callaghan, and Dainius Pūras
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A Human Rights-Based Approach to Psychiatry: Is it Possible?
Emma Broberg, Agneta Persson, Anna Jacobson, and Anna-Karin Engqvist
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Reconceptualizing Psychosis: The Hearing Voices Movement and Social Approaches to Health
Rory Neirin Higgs
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PERSPECTIVE Traditional Healing Practices Involving Psychoactive Plants and the Global Mental Health Agenda: Opportunities, Pitfalls, and Challenges in the “Right to Science” Framework
José Carlos Bouso and Constanza Sánchez Avilés
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The Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: More Than Just Another Reform of Psychiatry
Jasna Russo and Stephanie Wooley
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A Key, Not a Straitjacket: The Case for Interim Mental Health Legislation Pending Complete Prohibition of Coercion in Accordance with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Laura Davidson
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The Great March of Return: Lessons from Gaza on Mass Resistance and Mental Health
Bram Wispelwey and Yasser Abu Jamei
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General Papers

Understanding US Immigration Detention: Reaffirming Rights and Addressing Social-Structural Determinants of Health
Altaf Saadi, Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young, Caitlin Patler, Jeremias Leonel Estrada, and Homer Venters
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Global Health in the Age of COVID-19: Responsive Health Systems Through a Right to Health Fund
Eric A. Friedman, Lawrence O. Gostin, Allan Maleche, et al.
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The Waitangi Tribunal’s WAI 2575 Report: Implications for Decolonizing Health Systems
Heather Came, Dominic O’Sullivan, Jacquie Kidd, and Timothy McCreanor
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Right-to-Medicines Litigation and Universal Health Coverage: Institutional Determinants of the Judicialization of Health in Brazil
Mariana P. Socal, Joseph J. Amon, and João Biehl
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A Constructivist Vision of the First-Trimester Abortion Experience
Sam Rowlands and Jeffrey Wale
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Operationalizing a Human Rights-Based Approach to Address Mistreatment against Women during Childbirth
Christina Zampas, Avni Amin, Lucinda O’Hanlon, Alisha Bjerregaard, Hedieh Mehrtash, Rajat Khosla, and Ӧzge Tunçalp
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The Neglect of Persons with Severe Brain Injury in the United States: An International Human Rights Analysis
Tamar Ezer, Megan S. Wright, and Joseph J. Fins
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Beyond the Pragmatic Definition? The Right to Non-discrimination of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of Coercive Interventions
Sándor Gurbai
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Safer Viewing: A Study of Secondary Trauma Mitigation Techniques in Open Source Investigations
Elise Baker, Eric Stover, Rohini Haar, Andrea Lampros, and Alexa Koenig
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Tuberculosis Care in Mexico’s Chiapas Highlands Region: A Right to Health Analysis
Andrea Pérez-Molina, Héctor Javier Sánchez-Pérez, Maritel Yanes-Pérez, and Marcos Arana-Cedeño
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PERSPECTIVE Sleep Deprivation of Detained Children: Another Reason to End Child Detention
Katherine R. Peeler, Kathryn Hampton, Justin Lucero, and Roya Ijadi-Maghsoodi
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BOOK REVIEW  Why Prosecution Is Not the Go-To Tool to Secure Human Rights
Marge Berer
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Viewpoints

Reflections on 25 Years of Health and Human Rights: History, Context, and the Need for Strategic Action
Sofia Gruskin
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The Right to Health: Then, Now and a Call to Arms
Audrey R. Chapman
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Health and Human Rights at a Crossroads
Rajat Khosla
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War, Political Conflict, and the Right to Health
Leonard Rubenstein
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The Maturing Right to Health: Deeper, Broader and More Complex but Still Unequal
Gillian MacNaughton
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A Letter to Young and Future Leaders in Struggles for Health Rights and Social Justice
Alicia Ely Yamin
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Challenges in Promoting the Interdependence of all Human Rights
Dainius Pūras
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What Does it Mean to Adopt a Human Rights-Based Approach to Drug Policy?
Damon Barrett, Julie Hannah, and Rick Lines
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Impunity: Undermining the Health and Human Rights Consensus
Chris Beyrer
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How Can We Overcome the Great Procrastination to Respond to the Climate Emergency?
Rachel Hammonds
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COVID-19 and Detention: Respecting Human Rights
Joseph J. Amon
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Lessons from HIV to Guide COVID-19 Responses in the Central African Republic
Pierre Somse and Patrick M. Eba
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The Evolution of the Right to Health in the Shadow of COVID-19
Lisa Forman
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Anti-Roma Racism is Spiraling during COVID-19 Pandemic
Margareta Matache and Jacqueline Bhabha
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COVID-19 Economy vs Human Rights: A Misleading Dichotomy
Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky
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Applying Siracusa: A Call for a General Comment on Public Health Emergencies
Nina Sun
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Upholding Rights Under COVID-19: The Respectful Maternity Care Charter
R. Rima Jolivet, Charlotte E Warren, Pooja Sripad, Elena Ateva, Jewel Gausman, Kate Mitchell, Hagar Palgi Hacker, Emma Sacks, and Ana Langer
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Public Money Creation to Maintain Fundamental Human Rights during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Takondwa Chimowa, Stephen Hall, and Bernadette O’Hare
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Virtual Roundtable

A Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 and Human Rights with Human Rights Watch Researchers
Joseph J. Amon and Margaret Wurth
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