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.

06.29.10

Sure enough, Supreme Court denies cert in ERISA case

By Nan Hunter | Leave a Comment

The Supreme Court declined to review a case in which a restaurant owners group attempted to invalidate a San Francisco requirement that local businesses either offer health insurance benefits to their employees or pay the city a fee that is used to fund a program offering medical services to low-income restaurants. In Golden Gate Restaurant […]

Posted in Legal Issues ; Tagged: erisa, insurance, pay or play, Supreme Court.

06.24.10

Meanwhile, back at the Supreme Court, the pay or play debate continues (but maybe not for long)

By Nan Hunter | Leave a Comment

Today the Supreme Court is scheduled to decide whether to grant cert in Golden Gate Restaurant Ass’n v. City and County of San Francisco, No. 08-1515. Actually, the Court has had the case on its cert docket for months. Last October, the Court voted to solicit the views of the solicitor general (SVSG), but the […]

Posted in Legal Issues ; Tagged: erisa, insurance, pay or play, Supreme Court.

06.22.10

Battle in the Bureaucracy: An Interview with James Morone, Part II

By Lester Feder | Leave a Comment

James Morone is professor of political science at Brown University. His most recent book, co-authored with David Blumenthal, is The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office. This is the second of a two-part interview. Lester Feder: You argue that the ongoing fight against the health reform legislation in the courts and […]

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