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Caliban Unleashed: What role for strategic litigation in an illiberal era?
December 11, 2018
Author: Alicia Ely Yamin What is the role for strategic litigation of social rights, and in particular health rights, in a world where democratic social …
Revisiting Health Rights Litigation and Access to Medications in Costa Rica: Preliminary Evidence from the Cochrane Collaboration Reform
June 29, 2018
Abstract In response to the incremental creation of an expansive constitutional right to health in Costa Rica, the country’s rights-friendly constitutional chamber of the Supreme …
What causes Latin America’s high incidence of adolescent pregnancy?
November 27, 2017
Authors: Camila Gianella Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado Angélica Peñas Defago Latin America is the only region in the world where adolescent pregnancies are not decreasing. According …
Realizing Universal Health Coverage in East Africa: the relevance of human rights
August 31, 2017
Applying a robust human rights framework would change thinking and decision-making in efforts to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC), and advance efforts to promote women’s, …
Editorial: Developing a Human Rights-Based Approach to Tuberculosis.
August 11, 2017
This special section of Health and Human Rights Journal focuses much-needed attention on tuberculosis (TB) and human rights—particularly the right to health. Even as TB …
Projects
Political determinants of sexual and reproductive health: Criminalisation, health impacts and game changers
November 7, 2017
Project team: Siri Gloppen, Camila Gianella, Lise Rakner, Liv Tønnessen, Malcolm Langford Development actors have increasingly recognised the importance of the political determinants of health. …
Operationalizing a Rights-Based Approach to Health Service Delivery
August 18, 2014
Abstract: The research project a Rights-Based Approach to Health Service Delivery (RBA – health delivery) aims to develop a participatory methodology for operationalizing a rights-based approach to …
Abortion Rights Lawfare in Latin America
August 18, 2014
Abstract: The project analyses the strategic use of rights and law in battles over abortion rights in Latin America – and the various effects of …
Litigating the Right to Health
November 20, 2013
Abstract: The project investigates whether litigation can make health policies and -systems in poor countries more equitable by forcing policy-makers and administrators to take seriously …