Whose Global Health Security?
The COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated how “Global Health Security” is triggered when new diseases reach, or threaten to reach, the global north.
Global Health & Human Rights
-
Read more: Whose Global Health Security? -
Read more: International Pandemic Lawmaking: Conceptual and Practical Issues — Launch Editorial International Pandemic Lawmaking: Conceptual and Practical Issues — Launch Editorial
This symposium was convened to shed light on the inequities and imbalances exposed by global pandemic response.
-
Read more: Engendering Democracy: The Significance of Abortion Legalization in Argentina Engendering Democracy: The Significance of Abortion Legalization in Argentina
RecordingEvent Description In December 2020, first trimester abortion was legalized in Argentina with the passage of Law 27.610. This historic move presents an inflection point for Argentine democracy, as well as a case study in how rights concepts can be deployed effectively to advance reproductive justice. In this event, key actors in the long struggle…
-
Read more: Access-to-Medicines Activists Demand Health Justice During COVID-19 Pandemic Access-to-Medicines Activists Demand Health Justice During COVID-19 Pandemic
Activists in the access-to-medicines movement have mobilized to combat the threat of vaccine/therapeutic apartheid during the COVID-19 pandemic.
-
Read more: The Legality of Pandemic Detection and Prevention Technology The Legality of Pandemic Detection and Prevention Technology
A test-and-isolate system for detecting and monitoring new pathogens could avert future pandemics, but may face legal challenges in implementation.
-
Read more: The Prospects for an IP Waiver Under the TRIPS Agreement The Prospects for an IP Waiver Under the TRIPS Agreement
Going forward, practical solutions should focus on scaling up manufacturing and supply, and improving access and affordability.
-
Read more: A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Response to COVID-19: Global Classism A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Response to COVID-19: Global Classism
As the rich get richer, those of low socioeconomic status are doubly marginalized by the classism that characterizes the international pandemic response.
-
Read more: A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Response to COVID-19: Western Ideas of Health A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Response to COVID-19: Western Ideas of Health
In concentrating on largely Western conceptions of health, the international pandemic response paid insufficient attention to realities in the Global South.
-
Read more: The Stakes of the Pending Colombian Constitutional Court Abortion Decision The Stakes of the Pending Colombian Constitutional Court Abortion Decision
The Colombian Constitutional Court is currently considering whether to decriminalize abortion beyond the narrow exceptions already recognized in law.
-
Read more: A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Response to COVID-19: Data Colonialism A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Response to COVID-19: Data Colonialism
In affording asymmetric protection to those in the Global North, the technified coronavirus response exemplifies digital colonialism.
