Does the Right to Health Enhance Patient Rights?
Despite the value of a constitutionally enshrined right to health, such a guarantee, on its own, does not ensure patient rights.
Global Health & Human Rights
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Read more: Reproductive Governance in a Post-Roe US: The Weaponization of Health Systems Reproductive Governance in a Post-Roe US: The Weaponization of Health Systems
The incompleteness of laws banning abortion means that women’s rights often will be subordinated to informal and background norms.
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Read more: Searching for Environmental Justice in Argentina: Revisiting the Reality of the Matanza-Riachuelo River Basin Case after Fifteen Years Searching for Environmental Justice in Argentina: Revisiting the Reality of the Matanza-Riachuelo River Basin Case after Fifteen Years
The population living in areas surrounding the river basin continue to be exposed to historically-rooted injustices.
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Read more: Lessons from Latin America as the U.S. Regresses on Reproductive Rights Lessons from Latin America as the U.S. Regresses on Reproductive Rights
As SCOTUS moves closer to overturning Roe and Casey, looking south to Latin America highlights the egregiousness of these developments.
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Read more: Misplaced Skepticism on Accountability for War Crimes Against Health Care in Ukraine Misplaced Skepticism on Accountability for War Crimes Against Health Care in Ukraine
Attacks on the health care system in Ukraine can be prosecuted as war crimes and must be.
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Read more: Ethical Challenges Associated with the Protection of Pets in War Ethical Challenges Associated with the Protection of Pets in War
We are currently at a crossroads: The underlying issues of speciesism and the anthropocentric bias of law are increasingly contested.
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Read more: Supplying International Aid Effectively: Ethics and Law Supplying International Aid Effectively: Ethics and Law
Confronting pandemics and improving health in low-income countries requires ambitious public health plans. Global health responses to HIV/AIDS and multidrug resistant tuberculosis can provide guidance on how to garner public support and gain financial and political commitments to implement large-scale public health interventions and systems. In this session, experts discussed what it takes to finance…
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Read more: Introducing the Global Health and Rights Project’s New Affiliated Researchers Introducing the Global Health and Rights Project’s New Affiliated Researchers
The Petrie-Flom Center is welcoming four new affiliated researchers to the Global Health and Rights Project (GHRP).
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Read more: COVID ‘Compromise’ on International IP Underscores Need for New Approach COVID ‘Compromise’ on International IP Underscores Need for New Approach
For COVID treatments and diagnostics to be broadly available at affordable prices, their IP must be considered a global public good.
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Read more: Health Justice in the Americas: The Role of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Health Justice in the Americas: The Role of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
RecordingEvent Description The jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has been profoundly influential in the region since its inception in 1979. Since 2017, the Court has built up case law on the right to health, addressing an array of issues including: access to emergency care, HIV treatment, and health services for prison inmates;…
