Health and human rights in the new world

Pandemic and Human Rights in the Americas

The Americas and the world are now facing an unprecedented global health emergency caused by the pandemic of the COVID-19 virus. Central to the ...

Research Program on Global Health and Human Rights

This program is an integral part of the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute, seeking to understand human rights based approaches to health challenges.

In historic move, UN declares healthy environment a human right

In April, the UN Human Rights Council declared access to a "clean, healthy and sustainable environment" a human right. Earlier this year, ...

Center for Reproductive Rights

The Center for Reproductive Rights uses the power of law to advance reproductive rights as fundamental human rights around the world.

United States Denies the Human Right to Health Care

Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides a right to “a standard of living adequate for the health and wellbeing” of ...

WHO/OHCHR Guidance on mental health, human rights and ...

These acts have often been unable to address issues such as stigma and discrimination and human rights violations, whilst being heavily focused on institutional ...

Convention on the Rights of the Child | UNICEF

Find out about the world's most widely ratified human rights treaty in history. ... Today's children face new threats to their rights, but they also have new ...

International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare | Emerald Insight

Issue 3 2022 Children, young people and their international human right to healthcare. Issue 2 2022 E-health: The new way forward for health equality. Issue 1 ...

IAS–Lancet Commission on Health and Human Rights

The report of the Commission highlighted the “alarming deterioration of human rights over the past two decades” and implications for human health. Commissioners ...

Healthcare Equality Index 2024 - Human Rights Campaign

The Healthcare Equality Index (HEI) is the national LGBTQ+ benchmarking tool that evaluates healthcare facilities' policies and practices.

Article 35 - Health care

Everyone has the right of access to preventive health care and the right to benefit from medical treatment under the conditions established by national laws ...

Reclaiming human rights in a changing world order - Chatham House

The new challenges to human rights brought about by COVID-19 have emphasized the necessity and urgency of ensuring the holistic protection of ...

New UN/WHO Guidance on Human Rights in Mental Health Care

Further, the WHO and OHCHR guidelines are flexible to ensure that local contexts and concerns can be accounted for in any new legislation, ...

LeAdinG tHe ReALizAtion of HumAn RiGHts to HeALtH And ...

... World Health Organization and international human rights law ... international and regional human rights treaties, national laws and public health evidence.

Global Health & Human Rights Database |

Right to health (599) · Right to life (536) · Right to due process/fair trial (419) · Freedom from discrimination (415) · Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or ...

The inextricable link between public health and human rights and ...

International human rights law is central to global public health policies, yet on regional levels, governments fail to address the fundamental ...

Health and Human Rights | AJPH | Vol. 96 Issue 11

While traditional modes of work are still extremely useful—as is also the case in public health—new forms of action to promote and protect human ...

What role for human rights in global health? |

We desperately need a global health governance that is fit for purpose in our grossly unequal and yet interconnected world. ... We urgently need ...

How should implementation of the human right to health be ...

It incorporates many human rights principles, such as non-discrimination, participation and transparency, as well as an overarching framework on ...

The WHO's New "Mental Health, Human Rights, and Legislation ...

In recent years, mental health has emerged as a global public health priority and a matter of fundamental human rights.