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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style><span lang="EN-AU">Global
Health and Human Rights Database Officially Launched</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">24 October 2013</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style><span lang="EN-AU">New
York:</span></b><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Lawyers Collective and the O’Neill
Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University have
launched the Global Health and Human Rights Database (<a href="http://www.globalhealthrights.org">www.globalhealthrights.org</a>). The
Database is a free and fully searchable online database of more than 1000
judgments, constitutions and international instruments on the intersection
between health and human rights. <span style> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The Database is the first attempt to
comprehensively make health and human rights law from both common and civil law
jurisdictions available free of cost online, and features case law, constitutions,
and international and regional legal instruments representing more than 80
countries and 25 languages. It also provides 500 plain-language summaries and 200
original translations of case law previously unavailable in English. The
Database has been created in collaboration with more than 100 partners from
civil society, academia, and legal practice worldwide.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">An official public launch of the Database was
held on 24 October 2013, at the Dag Hammarskjold Library Auditorium at the
headquarters of the United Nations in New York. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Anand Grover, the UN Special Rapporteur on
the Right to Health and the Director of the HIV/AIDS Unit at Lawyers Collective,
gave the opening address at the launch. Mr. Grover emphasised the importance of
the Database in providing free online access to legal materials for civil society
in the developing world, and acknowledged the tremendous contributions of local
partners in the development of the Database.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></p><span lang="EN-AU"> </span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The development of the Database has been
generously funded by the Ford Foundation and the Levi-Strauss Foundation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">For more information about the Database,
please email <a href="mailto:contact@globalhealthrights.org">contact@globalhealthrights.org</a>
<span style> </span>or visit us at <a href="http://www.globalhealthrights.org">www.globalhealthrights.org</a> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Lawyers Collective and the O’Neill
Institute welcome potential collaborators. Please contact Suzanne Zhou at <a href="mailto:zhou.suzanne@gmail.com">zhou.suzanne@gmail.com</a> for further
details.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The launch webcast may be viewed at the
links below:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="http://webtv.un.org/watch/part-1-launch-of-the-global-health-and-human-rights-database/2766913541001/">Part
1</a> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="http://webtv.un.org/watch/part-2-launch-of-the-global-health-and-human-rights-database/2767083990001/">Part
2</a><span class=""></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:blue" lang="EN-AU"><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style><span lang="EN-AU">Lawyers
Collective (</span></i><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="http://www.lawyerscollective.org"><i style>www.lawyerscollective.org</i></a><i style>) is a leading public interest law NGO in
India focusing on strategic litigation and advocacy in HIV/AIDS and women’s
rights, with offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style><span lang="EN-AU">The
O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law is a premier research
centre for global and national health law, policy and scholarship at Georgetown
University.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
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