The Import of the UNCRPD and Disability Justice for Pandemic Preparedness and Response
This commentary outlines three of the more important considerations for international pandemic lawmaking with respect to people with disabilities.
Philosophy
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Read more: Health Justice Can’t Be Blind Health Justice Can’t Be Blind
The legal profession has not only the ability, but also the responsibility, to address longstanding systemic harms.
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Read more: The Target of Health Justice The Target of Health Justice
Distributing vaccines equitably at the level of geographical units such as districts or nation-states may obfuscate injustices.
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Read more: How Adult Guardianship Law Fails to Protect Contraceptive Decision-Making Rights How Adult Guardianship Law Fails to Protect Contraceptive Decision-Making Rights
Reform is needed to address the restrictions on reproductive decision-making rights that adults under guardianship currently face.
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Read more: Health Justice is Within Our Reach Health Justice is Within Our Reach
I grew up in the South Bronx, insulated from the absence of health justice until the fourth grade, when I began attending private school.
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Read more: Legal Capacity and Persons with Disabilities’ Struggle to Reclaim Control over Their Lives Legal Capacity and Persons with Disabilities’ Struggle to Reclaim Control over Their Lives
Persons with disabilities face an ongoing struggle to reclaim power and control over their lives.
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Read more: Digging Deep to Find Community-Based Health Justice Digging Deep to Find Community-Based Health Justice
Rather than simply recognizing the existence of social determinants of health, we must do the hard work to create and re-create systems.
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Read more: There’s No Justice Without Health Justice There’s No Justice Without Health Justice
Well-being and ill-being can be measured in many ways, but health is a fundamental part of the picture and is inextricably intertwined with justice.
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Read more: Pregnancy Loss, Abortion Rights, and a Holistic Reproductive Justice Movement Pregnancy Loss, Abortion Rights, and a Holistic Reproductive Justice Movement
The abortion rights and pregnancy loss communities can also work together to normalize and destigmatize all pregnancy outcomes.
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Read more: Vulnerability Theory and Health Justice Vulnerability Theory and Health Justice
Both vulnerability theory and health justice conceive of the relationship between law and behavior as holistic and constructive.
