PHM-Exch> New Paper Available from Health and Human Rights: An International Journal

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: FXB HHR Journal <HHRJOURNAL at hsph.harvard.edu>

A new paper is available from *Health and Human Rights: An International
Journal:
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*Bridging international law and rights-based litigation: Mapping
health-related rights through the development of the Global Health and
Human Rights Database **Benjamin Mason Meier, Helena Nygren-Krug, Oscar A.
Cabrera, Ana Ayala, Lawrence O. Gostin
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 Available at http://hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/473/735.
*Abstract *

*The O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown
University, the World Health Organization, and the Lawyers Collective have
come together to develop a searchable Global Health and Human Rights
Database that maps the intersection of health and human rights in
judgments, international and regional instruments, and national
constitutions. Where states long remained unaccountable for violations of
health-related human rights, litigation has arisen as a central mechanism
in an expanding movement to create rights-based accountability. Facilitated
by the incorporation of international human rights standards in national
law, this judicial enforcement has supported the implementation of
rights-based claims, giving meaning to states' longstanding obligations to
realize the highest attainable standard of health. Yet despite these
advancements, there has been insufficient awareness of the international
and domestic legal instruments enshrining health-related rights and little
understanding of the scope and content of litigation upholding these
rights. As this accountability movement evolves, the Global Health and
Human Rights Database seeks to chart this burgeoning landscape of
international instruments, national constitutions, and judgments for
health-related rights. Employing international legal research to document
and catalogue these three interconnected aspects of human rights for the
public's health, the Database's categorization by human rights, health
topics, and regional scope provides a comprehensive means of understanding
health and human rights law. Through these categorizations, the Global
Health and Human Rights Database serves as a basis for analogous legal
reasoning across states to serve as precedents for future cases, for
comparative legal analysis of similar health claims in different country
contexts, and for empirical research to clarify the impact of human rights
judgments on public health outcomes. ** *
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the right to health in all social, economic, cultural and environmental
contexts. We are interested particularly in the themes of (1) climate
change and the right to health; (2) health rights and effectiveness of
international treaty law; (3) interdisciplinary explorations of health and
human rights; (4) rights-informed innovations in health program design; (5)
health and human rights as “well-being.”
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