Country Reports

Country reports / Alternative reports on health and rights

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• Brazil 2009 - The right to health in Brazil
  Published as part of the 'Monitoring the Right to Health' project, aimed at analysing the realisation of the right to health in a number of countries
  Law School, University of Aberdeen

• Canada 2011 - The right to health in Canada
  Published as part of the 'Monitoring the Right to Health' project, aimed at analysing the realisation of the right to health in a number of countries
  Law School, University of Aberdeen / IFHHRO

• China 2005 - Restrictions on AIDS Activists in China
  Based on interviews with Chinese AIDS activists, gay rights activists, activists working with drug users and website managers this report shows that many AIDS activists face state harassment and bureaucratic restrictions 
  Human Rights Watch

• India 2008 - Divided Destinies, Unequal Lives / Economic, cultural and social rights and the Indian State  
  People's Collective on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

• India 2007- Vulnerable Groups in India
  Advocacy document on health and human rights of vulnerable groups
  CEHAT

• India 2006 - Comments on Article 12, Right to Enjoyment of Physical and Mental Health
  Response to the Indian government's report to CESCR
  CEHAT

• India 2006 - Government of India Report to Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  Combined 2nd, 3rd,4th and 5th Periodic Reports
  CEHAT    

• Iran 2007 - The right to health in Iran
  Published as part of the 'Right to Health in the Middle East' project, aimed at analysing the realisation of the right to health in a number of countries across the world
  Law School, University of Aberdeen, UK

• Israel 2009 - Ill Morals: Grave Violations of the Right to Health during the Israeli Assault on Gaza   Physicians for Human Rights-Israel

• Israel 2008 - The right to health in Israel
  Published as part of the 'Right to Health in the Middle East' project, aimed at analysing the realisation of the right to health in a number of countries
  Law School, University of Aberdeen, UK  

• Jordan 2007 - The right to health in Jordan
  Published as part of the 'Right to Health in the Middle East' project, aimed at analysing the realisation of the right to health in a number of countries Law School, University of Aberdeen, UK

• Kenya 2008 - Addressing the economic, social and cultural root causes of torture in Kenya
  Alternative report submitted to the UN Committee Against Torture
  World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)

• Kenya 2008 - Torture and related violations in Kenya
  Alternative report submitted to the UN Committee Against Torture
  Independent Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU)

• Lebanon 2007 - The right to health in Lebanon
  Published as part of the 'Right to Health in the Middle East' project, aimed at analysing the realisation of the right to health in a number of countries
  Law School, University of Aberdeen, UK

• Lebanon 2006 - United Nations Report on Lebanon/Israel conflict of August 2006 (A/HRC/2/7)
  This report was jointly submitted by four Special Rapporteurs to the Human Rights Council
  United Nations

• Mexico 2006 - Report of civil society organisations on the situation of economic, social, cultural and environmental rights in Mexico (1997-2006)
  Chapter on the right to health of the alternative report to the IV periodic report of the Mexican state on the implementation of the ICESCR, presented to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

• Mozambique 2005 - United Nations Report on Mission to Mozambique
  Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (E/CN.4/2005/51/Add.2) submitted to the Commission on Human Rights

• Nigeria 2008 - The right to health in Nigeria
  Published as part of the 'Monitoring the Right to Health: a Multi-Country Study', aimed at analysing the realisation of the right to health in a number of countries across the world
  Law School, University of Aberdeen, UK

• Peru 2007 - Deadly delays - Maternal Mortality in Peru
  Physicians for Human Rights USA

• Peru 2005 - United Nations Report on Mission to Peru
  Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (E/CN.4/2005/51/Add.3), submitted to the Commission on Human Rights

• Romania 2006 - Life Doesn't Wait. Romania's Failure to Protect and Support Children and Youth Living with HIV
  This report documents violations of the rights to education, health, privacy and information of the more than 7,200 Romanian children and youth that became infected with HIV over 15 years ago Human Rights Watch

• Romania 2005 - United Nations Report on Mission to Romania
  Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (E/CN.4/2005/51/Add.4). This report was submitted to the Commission on Human Rights OHCHR

• Russian Federation 2011 - The Right to Health in Russia
  This study undertakes an evaluation of the status of the Right to Health in the Russian Federation. Published as part of the Right to Health Project; Law School, University of Aberdeen

• Russian Federation 2005 - Positively Abandoned. Stigma and Discrimination against HIV-Positive Mothers and their Children in Russia
  This report focuses on the discrimination women living with HIV in Russia face, as do their children, many of whom are abandoned to the care of the state 
  Human Rights Watch  

• Russian Federation 2004 Lessons Not Learned: Human Rights Abuses and HIV/AIDS in the Russian Federation  
  Report on the oppression of drug use in the Russian Federation and how it impacts on the health and human rights of drug users
  Human Rights Watch

• Saudi Arabia 2009 - The right to health in Saudi Arabia
  Published as part of the Right to Health in the Middle East Project
  Law School, University of Aberdeen

• Serbia 2010 - The Right to Health in Serbia
  This study undertakes an evaluation of the status of the right to health in Serbia. Published as part of the Right to Health Project; Law School, University of Aberdeen

• Serbia 2005 - Serbia: discrimination and corruption, the flaws in the health care system
  Alternative report to the report submitted by the Government of Serbia-Montenegro to the CESCR
  FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights)

• Sweden 2007 - United Nations Report on the mission of the Special Rapporteur to Sweden
  Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (A/HRC/4/28/Add.2) This report was submitted to the Human Rights Council

• Uganda 2009 - Fact sheet Health and Human Rights in Uganda  
  WHO Country Office / Ministry of Health

• Uganda 2006 - United Nations Report on the mission of the Special Rapporteur to Uganda
  Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (E/CN.4/2006/48/Add.2) This report was submitted to the Commission on Human Rights on 19 January 2006

• Ukraine 2006 - Rhetoric and Risk. Human Rights Abuses Impeding Ukraine's Fight Against HIV/AIDS
  This report documents how drug laws and routine police abuse of injection drug users keep them from receiving lifesaving HIV information and services that the government has pledged to provide. Human Rights Watch

• United Kingdom 2008 - Proposals to Exclude Overseas Visitors from Eligibility to Free NHS Primary Medical Services
  A summary of submissions to a Department of Health consultation whose findings were never published
  Global Health Advocacy Project

• USA 2005 - Health, Opportunity, and Human Rights at Home
  This 5-page policy brief advocates universal and equal access to high quality healthcare in the USA, where 45 million people have no health insurance
  The Opportunity Agenda

• USA 2006 - United Nations Report on the situation of detainees at Guantanamo Bay(E/CN.4/2006/120)
  This report was jointly submitted by five Special Rapporteurs to the Commission on Human Rights

• Zimbabwe 2006 - No Bright Future. Government Failures, Human Rights Abuses and Squandered Progress in the Fight against AIDS in Zimbabwe
  This report documents how the abusive policies and practices of the Zimbabwean government are fueling the HIV/AIDS epidemic, increasing vulnerability to infection, and obstructing access to treatment.
  Human Rights Watch

This is a non-exhaustive list. Please send us (links to) other shadow/alternative reports, as well as study reports focusing on the right to health in a particular country.