Book Brief: Global Health and Global Health Ethics
Solomon Benatar and Gillian Brock explore the obligations and challenges surrounding the improvement of global health in their new textbook, Global Health and Global Health Ethics.
Book Brief: The Right to Health
The Right to Health, edited by Gunilla Backman, expounds on the central theme that a functioning, accessible, and non-discriminatory health system is necessary for the realization of the right to health.
AlertNet: Governments failing to protect children from sex trafficking
A new report from ECPAT states that countries around the globe are falling far short of efforts necessary to stop child sex trafficking.
Local organizations’ critical role in the provision of reproductive health care during disaster response
Rachel Kelley and Charlotte Greenbaum write that the need for reproductive health care – especially in situations of armed conflict and natural disaster – far exceeds availability. They suggest that international donors can improve the availability of reproductive health care by funding and collaborating with local organizations “on the ground” in their native countries.
Obesity, NCDs, and the Right to Food
Health and human rights professionals have long considered food and nutrition to be underlying determinants of health, but the focus has largely been on undernutrition. That focus is now changing. Angela Duger describes a new report from the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food that focuses on overnutrition as an area that requires state regulation.
Book Brief: The Human Right to Health
In The Human Right to Health, Jonathan Wolff explores the philosophical dilemma at the heart of establishing a human right to health.
Police crackdowns in China: The health and human rights of sex workers
Sara L.M. Davis, PhD, executive director of Asia Catalyst, notes that in the debate about criminal penalties on sex work, we rarely hear the voices of sex workers themselves. Now, a new network representing Chinese sex workers says that police crackdowns don’t stop sex work – they put workers at higher risk for violence and HIV/AIDS.
Kony 2012: Encouraging social change or oversimplifying a crisis?
Kony 2012, the much-discussed short film about Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, has received more than 100 million views in one week. Can such campaigns offer a legitimate tool for effecting social and political change, or do they oversimplify the complex matter of navigating a humanitarian crisis?
New online tool outlines the evolution of human rights
The new educational reference from the Council on Foreign Relations charts the history and current state of human rights protection worldwide.
