PHA-Exch> Health and Human Rights journal: Call for submissions

[Claudio Schuftan]

from: "FXB HHR Journal" <HHRJOURNAL at hsph.harvard.edu>,

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! *Health and Human Rights: An International Journal*,
invites manuscript submissions for its next two theme issues, on
non-discrimination and equality (deadline:  April 15, 2009) and
international assistance and cooperation (deadline: August 15, 2009). A
brief description of each issue is below; further information is available
at: *http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/about/submissions*.



*Issue 11:2 **Non-Discrimination and Equality**
*Submissions due: April 15, 2009

Non-discrimination is perhaps the most fundamental principle underlying all
of human rights. Yet, notions of equality and non-discrimination have yet to
be fully developed as they apply to health policy and programming.  What
does equality actually mean in rolling out or scaling up services, or
determining resource allocations in health? What dimensions of inequality
result in inequity?  What are the grounds for advancing substantive equality
as it relates to preconditions for health and access to care?  How is the
concept of non-discrimination related to but distinct from development
concepts of social exclusion? This issue will critically explore these
concepts in theory and practice.

*Issue 12:1 **International Assistance and Cooperation and Health and Human
Rights Obligations Beyond Borders*
Submissions due: August 15, 2009

The ability of poor countries to realize the right to health, as well as to
fulfill other human rights obligations relating to social determinants of
health, must be understood within the context of the global political
economy. Donor countries assume human rights obligations directly and as
members of international organizations, such as the World Bank, IMF and
regional development banks. UN and international agencies, as well as
transnational corporations under certain circumstances, may also have human
rights obligations relating to health. This issue will critically explore
how these international obligations are being defined and discharged, and
existing mechanisms to hold donor states and other actors, including
transnational corporations, accountable for their human rights obligations.
It will also consider the challenges to expanding the human rights regime to
focus on actors beyond the immediate nation-state in which a violation
occurs.

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