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Category Archives: Human Rights
Silver and Gold: California’s and Nevada’s Pushes Towards Universal Health Coverage
Neil Sircar, J.D., is an LL.M Candidate in Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center & the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Any questions or comments related to this post can be directed to [email protected] The Golden State: All That Glimmers? Critics of the […]
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The fight against hidden suffering: El Salvador to decriminalize abortion
This post was written by Andrés Constantin. Andrés is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Any questions or comments can be directed to [email protected] The opportunity has presented and it is time to seize it The ruling party in El Salvador, Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) has proposed […]
Posted in Human Rights;
Solidarity in Our Diversity
If you were in New York City and its environs in the weeks and months after September 11, 2001, as I was – or, I expect, just about anywhere in the United States – you will recall the American flags in the storefront windows, outside homes, everywhere really. Those banners of solidarity reminded us, as […]
Posted in Global Health, Human Rights, National Healthcare; Tagged: diversity, fcgh, Framework Convention on Global Health, health impact assessments, immigrants, national health equity strategies, SNAP, solidarity, unity.
Hunger, Health, and Compassion – and Our Responsibility
This piece was written by Eric Friedman and Lawrence Gostin. It is an extended version of Prof. Gostin’s JAMA Forum posting from April 12, 2017. The contrast must have been enough to send a shiver down the spine of the global humanitarian and human rights communities. Even as headlines warned of 20 million people in […]
Posted in Global Health, Human Rights; Tagged: famine, foreign aid, humanitarian aid, hunger, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, United Nations, Yemen.
Colombia Orders Sweetened Beverage Commercial off the Air
This post was written by Andrés Constantin. Andrés is an Adjunct Professor of law at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Any questions or comments can be directed to [email protected] On September 7, 2016, the Colombian Industry and Commerce Superintendence issued a resolution according to which it ordered the Asociación Colombiana de Educación al Consumidor (EDUCAR) to […]
Posted in Global Health, Health reform, Human Rights, Uncategorized; Tagged: NCDs.
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