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08.11.17

Human Rights-Based Approaches to Health: How Do We Measure Them?

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Neil Sircar, J.D., is an LL.M Candidate in Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center & the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Any questions or comments related to this post can be directed to nrs53@georgetown.edu. Dr. Tedros, the newly-minted Director-General of the World Health Organization, has made human rights and health […]

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07.17.17

Countering the negative public health impacts of the anti-vaccination movement

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This blog post was authored by Javier Saladich, a Summer Research Intern at the O’Neill Institute. Javier is a third year law student at ESADE Business and Law School in Barcelona, Spain. Any comments or questions can be emailed to javier.saladich@esade.edu. In light of recent measles outbreaks in Europe and the United States and a […]

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07.11.17

Financial Security as a Public Health Good: Cash Transfers Can Improve Individual and Family Health

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Neil Sircar, J.D., is an LL.M Candidate in Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center & the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Any questions or comments related to this post can be directed to nrs53@georgetown.edu. Universal Basic Income (UBI), also known as Basic Income Guarantee (BIG), has been increasingly discussed in […]

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06.20.17

A TALE OF TWO CITIES: VICTORIES FOR SODA TAXES IN PHILADELPHIA AND SEATTLE

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Hanhsi Indy Liu is an SJD candidate at Georgetown University Law Center. Sarah Roache is a Senior Associate at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Any questions or comments on this post can be sent to: hl580@georgetown.edu. Advocates for public health-based soda taxes had two important victories this month: a Pennsylvania appeals […]

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05.18.17

The fight against hidden suffering: El Salvador to decriminalize abortion

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This post was written by Andrés Constantin. Andrés is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Any questions or comments can be directed to aconstantin@utdt.edu.  The opportunity has presented and it is time to seize it The ruling party in El Salvador, Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) has proposed […]

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04.19.17

“Speaking truth to power:” a call for praxis in human rights

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This message was written by Alicia Ely Yamin, O’Neill Institute Director, Health and Human Rights Initiative and originally published by Open Democracy. Any comments or questions can be directed to aey7@law.georgetown.edu. While conservative populist nationalism surged in the last year, I do not agree that its ascendance was inevitable. But I do believe that the human […]

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04.12.17

Colombia Orders Sweetened Beverage Commercial off the Air

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This post was written by Andrés Constantin. Andrés is an Adjunct Professor of law at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Any questions or comments can be directed to aconstantin@utdt.edu. On September 7, 2016, the Colombian Industry and Commerce Superintendence issued a resolution according to which it ordered the Asociación Colombiana de Educación al Consumidor (EDUCAR) to […]

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03.28.17

Obamacare Is the Law of the Land… Now What?

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This post was written by Andrew Hennessy-Strahs, a 2017 Global Health Law LL.M. Candidate at Georgetown University Law Center. Any questions or comments can be directed to adh75@georgetown.edu. “Obamacare is the law of the land,” spoke Paul Ryan late Friday afternoon, following the collapse of support for his proposed legislation, the American Health Care Act […]

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03.27.17

Why You Should Attend This Year’s Health Rights Litigation Intensive

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“Participating in the Health Rights Litigation course in September of 2013 granted me the opportunity to interact with some of the best minds on health and human rights in the world. I was among forty-four participants who were representative of twenty-four countries from around the world. I attended the course at a time when KELIN […]

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