by ghgovernance | Mar 15, 2018 | Conflict, GFATM, Human Rights, IASC, International Law, LGBT, OHCHR, Pandemic Response, Recent Issue, Spring 2018, Trade, TSMOs, World Bank, World Health Organization
by Benjamin Mason Meier, Hanna Huffstetler and Lawrence O. Gostin Human rights frame global health governance. In codifying a normative foundation for global governance in the aftermath of World War II, states came together under the auspices of an emergent United...
by ghgovernance | Nov 30, 2014 | International Law, Spring-Autumn 2014
Suerie Moon The Ebola outbreak puts in clear focus central questions for the global health system: Who is responsible for getting the outbreak under control? What can and should be done by the governments of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, and by international...
by ghgovernance | Jun 16, 2014 | Fall 2013 Issue, Governance, Human Rights, International Institutions and Multilateral Organizations, International Law
Jane Galvão, PhD This commentary describes efforts to address sexual violence, especially in situations of armed conflict, and bringing attention to this issue in connection with the Post-2015 United Nations (UN) Development Agenda.1 Analysis on sexual violence during...
by ghgovernance | Jan 16, 2014 | Global Health Governance Blog, International Health Regulations, International Institutions and Multilateral Organizations, International Law, Uncategorized
By Tara Ornstein, Independent Global Health Researcher Although on December 18, 2013, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) confirmed the deaths of 2,360 migrants in 2013, they indicated that the actual number was much higher. IOM Director General William...
by ghgovernance | Jan 6, 2012 | Biological Weapons, Global Health Governance Blog, Health Security, International Law
Ruminations on the Seventh Review Conference of the BWC: More or More of the Same? David P. Fidler, Contributing GHG Blogger James Louis Calamaras Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law States parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) held...
by ghgovernance | Nov 21, 2011 | Global Health Diplomacy, Human Resources for Health, International Institutions and Multilateral Organizations, International Law, World Health Organization
The WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel: The Evolution of Global Health Diplomacy Allyn L. Taylor and Ibadat S. Dhillon The May 2010 adoption of the World Health Organization Global Code of Practice on the International...
by ghgovernance | Nov 21, 2011 | Human Rights, International Institutions and Multilateral Organizations, International Law
The Global Governance of Bioethics: Negotiating UNESCO’s Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (2005) Adèle Langlois UNESCO’s Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (2005) was drawn up by an independent panel of experts (the International...
by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2010 | Essential Medicines, International Law
Global Health Governance, Intellectual Property and Access to Essential Medicines: Opportunities and Impediments for South-South Cooperation Obijiofor Aginam Intellectual property “rights,” in many complex ways, impede access to Anti-Retroviral (ARV) drugs in most...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2010 | International Health Regulations, International Law, Sub-Saharan Africa
Is There an International Duty to Protect Persons in the Event of an Epidemic? Sara E. Davies In 2006, the International Law Commission began a study into the role of states and international organizations in protecting persons in the event of a disaster. Special...
by ghgovernance | Sep 1, 2009 | International Law
Food Safety and Global Health: An International Law Perspective Stefania Negri Following the recurrence of serious events of food contamination across the globe, food safety has become a matter of ever increasing international concern and the World Health Organization...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2009 | Donor Assistance/Aid, International Law, North America
Health Care Reform that Works for the U.S. and for the World’s Poor Thomas Pogge Some 18 million people die annually from poverty-related causes. Insofar as present global institutional arrangements foreseeably and avoidably perpetuate this death toll, affluent...