by ghgovernance | Mar 15, 2018 | Human Rights, ICESCR, Pandemic Response, Spring 2018, World Health Organization
by Mark Eccleston-Turner Developing states lack access to pandemic influenza vaccines. The provision of ‘essential’ medicines is a core, non-derogable obligation of the right to health in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR),...
by ghgovernance | Mar 15, 2018 | Human Rights, IASC, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Spring 2018
by Sara Davis, Doris Schopper and Julia Epps Sexual violence in conflict settings is recognized as a war crime, constituting a grave violation of human rights. This article compares and contrasts sexual violence intervention monitoring and evaluation (M&E) tools...
by ghgovernance | Mar 15, 2018 | Human Rights, OHCHR, Spring 2018
by Gillian MacNaughton Since 1994, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has taken a lead role in promoting human rights around the globe. This article examines the work of the OHCHR on the right to health. Based on the annual reports of the...
by ghgovernance | Mar 15, 2018 | Human Rights, Spring 2018, TSMOs
by Samantha Plummer, Jackie Smith and Melanie Hughes Transnational social movement organizations (TSMOs) played a critical role in integrating human rights into the policies and programs of the United Nations, including in health governance. In this article, we...
by ghgovernance | Mar 15, 2018 | GFATM, Human Rights, Spring 2018
by Sharifah Sekalala and Toni Haastrup New Global Health initiatives, such as the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), Global Alliance on Vaccines and Immunisations (GAVI), UNITAID, Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and...
by ghgovernance | Mar 15, 2018 | Human Rights, Spring 2018, World Bank
by Yusra Ribhi Shawar and Jennifer Prah Ruger While the World Bank has integrated rights-based principles in the implementation of some health programs that it finances, it continues to deny a formal legal obligation for human rights. Employing thematic and discourse...
by ghgovernance | Mar 15, 2018 | Human Rights, Spring 2008
by Hiwote Fantahun This article examines the responsibility of external funders to ensure respect for human rights in their health assistance in highly repressive and politicized countries, using Ethiopia as a case study. Ethiopia’s experience is particularly...
by ghgovernance | Mar 15, 2018 | Spring 2018, World Bank
by Desmond McNeill The World Bank is reluctant to engage with human rights – generally, and more specifically in relation to health. Why? And what is to be done about it? This commentary summarizes the debate, showing that insiders and critical outsiders largely...
by ghgovernance | Mar 15, 2018 | Human Rights, Spring 2018, Trade
by Meri Koivusalo and Katrina Perehudoff New generation trade agreements mark a new era in the contentious relationship between the right to health and global trade objectives. This article delineates three of the unique qualities of new generation agreements and the...
by ghgovernance | Mar 15, 2018 | Complete Issues, Feature Stories, Human Rights, Spring 2018
Volume XII, No. 1 Spring 2018: Special Issue Human Rights in Global Health Governance Full Text Human Rights in Global Health Governance Benjamin Mason Meier, Hanna Huffstetler and Lawrence O. Gostin Transforming the WHO’s Role in Advancing the Right to...
by ghgovernance | Oct 23, 2017 | Fall 2017, Feature Stories, Recent Issue
Volume XI, No. 2 Autumn 2017: Special Issue The Role of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions in Accelerating the Implementation of the Health-Related SDGs The Role of Health Policy Think Tanks in Accelerating the Implementation of the SDGs in...
by ghgovernance | Oct 23, 2017 | Fall 2017
Francis Omaswa and Patrick Kadama African countries gained independence from colonial rule with high expectations for their futures. Indeed, the early post-independence years showed much promise in many countries, with a scaling-up of education, healthcare, other...
by ghgovernance | Oct 23, 2017 | Fall 2017
Paulo M. Buss, Luiz Augusto C. Galvão, Sebastian Tobar and Luiz Eduardo Fonseca The Latin American health sector has had difficulty embracing and integrating global agendas defined at high-level meetings, such as Rio 92, Agenda 21, the Millennium Declaration and the...
by ghgovernance | Oct 23, 2017 | Fall 2017
Walter Flores The Central American region includes 7 countries and 43 million inhabitants. The region is highly unequal both across and between countries. Whereas Costa Rica and Panama present a high human development index, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua have the...
by ghgovernance | Oct 23, 2017 | Fall 2017
Yanzhong Huang North America faces unique challenges in implementing health-related sustainable development goals (SDGs), no less because two high-income countries in the region (United States and Canada) themselves have only partially met the health-related SDG...
by ghgovernance | Oct 23, 2017 | Fall 2017
Saadiya Razzaq This paper intends to investigate, through available literature and web searches, the role of policy research institutions in South Asia in accelerating the monitoring and implementation of health-related SDGs. It is argued that SDGs are not only...
