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01.23.20
Pesticides and Human Rights
Pesticide use has increased substantially around the world in recent decades, as these chemical products have been found in some cases to increase crop yields, and reduce damage from pests or other invasive crops. This increase, however, has been accompanied by growing concerns about the potential impacts of these products on humans and on the […]
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11.25.19
Informed consent and early motherhood
In an article published a few months ago, Soledad Deza and Adriana Álvarez, examine what they consider to be “an unattended medical obligation”: requiring informed consent to girls and adolescents to carry a pregnancy to term and give birth. Deza and Álvarez assess different interrelated and inescapably linked aspects of early motherhood, among which is […]
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10.24.19
Privatization of Public Services and the Risks to Human Rights: Alston’s Report on the Digital Welfare State
Last Friday, October 18th, Philip Alston, Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, presented his report on human rights and digital welfare states to the UN General Assembly. The report, a result of Alston’s country visits to the UK, the US as well as 60 submissions from 34 countries, warns of the misuse and […]
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08.21.19
Human Duties, Populism and Hope for Global Health
This post was written by Ana Isabel Fernández Alonso and Andrés Constantin « All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights (…) » Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the “ABC” of activists and scholars in the field and a statement used in countless speeches to address unity among […]
Categories: Global Health Health and Human Rights Human Rights
05.31.19
World No Tobacco Day 2019
Every May 31, since 1987, the World Health Organization (WHO) sponsors the World No Tobacco Day, an annual awareness day intended to highlight the health risks associated with tobacco use and encourage governments to adopt effective policies to reduce smoking and the use of other tobacco products. According to WHO, tobacco use kills more than […]
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04.07.19
Submission of an amicus brief to the Inter-American Court in the case of Indigenous Communities belonging to the Lhaka Honhat Association v. Argentina
The O’Neill Institute jointly with various organizations submitted an amicus curiae to the Inter-American Court in the case of Indigenous Communities belonging to the Lhaka Honhat Association v. Argentina.The document addresses international standards and comparative jurisprudence on demarcation of indigenous territories and Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights. On March 29, 2019 the Foundation for […]
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03.22.19
Tobacco industry, bribery and anticorruption
This post was written by Camila Florencia Tort, Consultant at the Department of Legal Cooperation of the Organization of American States and Andrés Constantin. The World Health Organization projects the death toll from tobacco will rise to more than eight million by 2030. Despite the strides made in curbing the tobacco epidemic, the tobacco industry […]
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02.26.19
Genome editing and CRISPR
This post was written by Andrés Constantin and Patricio López Turconi. Genome editing and CRISPR CRISPR-Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is a new technique of genome editing that offers the possibility of inserting, removing and correcting DNA with relative simplicity and efficiency. Scientists had already developed the ability to edit the genome by altering its […]
Categories: Global Health Health and Human Rights Human Rights Legal Issues
Tags: autonomy consent CRISPR CRISPR-Cas9 discrimination ethics gene editing genome social justice
01.23.19
The situation of access to health services in El Salvador
This post was written by Patricio López Turconi, Intern at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, and Andrés Constantin. Women El Salvador has sought to reduce inequality in access to health services for women through its 2011 Law on Equality, Equity and Elimination of Discrimination against Women (Decree N° 645). Article 26 […]
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Tags: abortion access to health care health and human rights health legislation HIV/AIDS human rights infectious diseases latin america right to health
12.10.18
International Human Rights Day: “The Right to Health in National Courts”
On 10 December 2018, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), jointly with the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, and with the support from the Government of Canada, celebrated the International Human Rights Day. The event focused on several topics concerning the right to health, which included discussions on the enforcement of the […]
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Tags: courts health and human rights health rights litigation human rights judicialization O'Neill Institute PAHO right to health World Health Organization
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