Stigma and Discrimination: Still Destroying Lives

By Eric A. Friedman | Leave a Comment

We know how pervasive the most flagrant discrimination used to be when it came to people with mental disabilities and people with HIV. People with mental disabilities were once warehoused in institutions, apart from society, perhaps treated forever as children, without rights of their own. They were dubbed “retarded,” “insane,” even “mad,” rather than people […]

Posted in Global Health, Human Rights, Legal Issues, uncategorized ; Tagged: Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, discrimination, HIV, human rights, Nigeria, non-discrimination, Pakistan, people with disabilities, people with mental disabilities, torture.

11.20.19

The Status of WHO Regulations under International law – ‘Agreements’ vs. ‘Regulations’

By Lidiya Teklemariam | Leave a Comment

It was during my LLM studies last year – I took this one-week course that made me think thoroughly about the types and nature of legal instruments produced by the World Health Organization (WHO). This course, Public Health Emergencies: Enabling Preparedness & Response through Law and Policy, analyzed case studies from various global events including […]

Posted in Global Health Law LL.M., Global Health Law LL.M. Program, Infectious Diseases, Legal Issues, WHO ;

09.27.19

Migrants’ Access to Healthcare: Data Wanted

By Mara Pillinger | Leave a Comment

Countries’ obligations to respond to the health needs of migrants (including regular and irregular migrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers) was a topic of conversation at the O’Neill Institute this week. In 2016, the UN General Assembly adopted the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, which proclaims Member States’ “commit[ment] to protecting the safety, dignity and […]

Posted in Global Health, Global Health Governance, HIV, Legal Issues ;

09.04.19

The Framework Convention on Global Health: An Empowering International Instrument to Advance the Right to Health

By Eric A. Friedman | Leave a Comment

We often look to how the Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) would empower people, enhancing meaningful participation and government accountability to the right to health, with an emphasis on people who now have the least voice and to whom governments are least accountable. Such empowerment is central to the FCGH. Here, I focus on […]

Posted in Global Health, Health and Human Rights, Human Rights, Legal Issues, WHO ; Tagged: accountability, equity, fcgh, Framework Convention on Global Health, human rights, ministries of health, participation, quality health care, right to health, universal health coverage.

08.13.19

Proposing an international fund for migrant and refugee health

By Eric A. Friedman | Leave a Comment

Few groups of people face less welcome in the world today than migrants forced from their homes, whether by conflict, persecution, violence, poverty, climate change or other environmental degradation, or hopelessness – or often, a mix of these factors. They seek basic safety, freedom, and opportunity – what all of us have a right to, yet […]

Posted in Global Health, Global Health Governance, Health and Human Rights, Human Rights, Legal Issues, uncategorized ; Tagged: immigrants, international fund, migrants, non-discrimination, refugees, right to health.

08.12.19

Global Health and Digital Rights: a Discussion on Human Rights

By Laura Norato | Leave a Comment

The discussion about digital rights has been mainly centered on civil and political rights. Nevertheless, the emergence of social networks, communication platforms and connected devices, the appearance of new technologies and digital services directed to the most vulnerable populations information, and the existence of daily-updated algorithms that can predict choices based on data collected over […]

Posted in Global Health, Health and Human Rights, Human Rights, Legal Issues, uncategorized ;

05.07.19

Health and safety at workplaces: an opportunity for a joint effort

By Laura Norato | Leave a Comment

Last April 29 was the first official world day for safety and health at work. The International Labor Organization inspired by its centenary anniversary, attempted, with the establishment of this date, to reaffirm the importance of a healthier workforce as a prerequisite for a brighter future of work and a more sustainable development. It was […]

Posted in Global Health, Global Health Governance, Health and Human Rights, Legal Issues, WHO ; Tagged: Health and safety at workplaces, ILO, WHO.

03.25.19

Contribute to drafting the Framework Convention on Global Health

By Eric A. Friedman | Leave a Comment

Those of us who have been working on the Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) have long debated when it would be time to begin drafting the treaty. The FCGH Alliance has now begun the drafting process, with the aim of catalyzing widespread engagement – and we hope, most importantly, reaching people who rarely have […]

Posted in Global Health, Global Health Governance, Health and Human Rights, Human Rights, Legal Issues ; Tagged: accountability, equality, equity, fcgh, FCGH Alliance, Framework Convention on Global Health, global governance for health, human rights, non-discrimination, participation, right to health, social determinants of health, universal health care.

03.01.19

UNAIDS gives and gets advice on “Zero Discrimination Day”

By John Stephens | Leave a Comment

Today, the United Nations marks “Zero Discrimination Day,” an annual day of celebration that they made up in 2014. The day is meant to promote equality in all aspects of life, but in practice it seems to be a UNAIDS affair focused on discrimination against people living with HIV. Every member of the United Nations […]

Posted in Global Health, Health and Human Rights, HIV, Human Rights, Infectious Diseases, Legal Issues ;

02.26.19

Genome editing and CRISPR

By Andrés Constantin | Leave a Comment

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 […]

Posted in Global Health, Health and Human Rights, Human Rights, Legal Issues ; Tagged: autonomy, consent, CRISPR, CRISPR-Cas9, discrimination, ethics, gene editing, genome, social justice.

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