Documents - Books, reports and articles

• Global Health and Human Rights. Legal and Philosophical Perspectives
  John Harrington & Maria Stuttaford (Eds). Routledge, 2010
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• Health and Social Justice
  Jennifer Prah Ruger, Oxford University Press, 2010
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• Respect, Protect and Fulfill: Legislating for Women’s Rights in the Context of HIV/AIDS — Volume One: Sexual and Domestic Violence
  R. Pearshouse & A. Symington, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, 2009
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• Circles of Exclusion. The Politics of Health Care in Israel
  Dani Filc, Cornell University Press, 2009
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• Human Rights Guidelines for Pharmaceutical Companies in relation to Access to Medicines: The Sexual and Reproductive Health Context
  Rajat Khosla & Paul Hunt, Right to Health Unit, 2009
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• "Please, do not make us suffer any more…" Access to Pain Treatment as a Human Right
  Human Rights Watch, 2009
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• Human Rights and Social Justice. Social Action and Service for the Helping and Health Professions
  Joseph Wronka, SAGE Publications, 2008
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• The Highest Attainable Standard: The Implications of an Evolving Human Right to Health for Global Public Health and International Health Systems
  Benjamin Mason Meier, Dissertation Columbia University, 2008
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• "Safari research". Clinical trials and human rights violations in low- and middle-income countries
  M. Fialho Kierulf, European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation, 2008
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• Global Health Watch 2. An Alternative World Health Report
  People's Health Movement, 2008
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• Primary Health Care - Now More Than Ever. The World Health Report 2008
  World Health Organization, 2008
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• An International Human Right: Sexuality Education for Adolescents in Schools
  Centre for Reproductive Rights, 2008
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• From Outrage to Courage: Women Taking Action for Health and Justice
  A. Firth Murray, Common Courage Press, 2008
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• Public Health: Ethical Issues
  The Nuffield Council on Bioethics (UK), 2007 
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• Public Health and Human Rights: Evidence-Based Approaches
  C. Beyrer & H. Pizer (eds.), The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
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• Gender, health and human rights in sites of political exclusion
  R. Petchesky & M. Laurie, 2007
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• Epidemic of Inequality. Women’s Rights and HIV/AIDS in Botswana & Swaziland. An Evidence-Based Report on the Effects of Gender Inequity, Stigma and Discrimination
  Physicians for Human Rights, 2007
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• Women’s health and human rights : Monitoring the implementation of CEDAW
  World Health Organization, 2007
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• Reclaiming the Resources for Health – A regional analysis of equity in health in East and Southern Africa
  EQUINET, 2007
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• Overcoming barriers: Migration, Marginalisation and Access to Health and Social Services
  Correlation, 2007
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• The Impact of Acts of Corruption on the Enjoyment of the Right to Health. Research Paper for the International Council on Human Rights Policy Project: Corruption and Human Rights
   B. Toebes, UK, June 2007
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• Access to Health Care for Undocumented Migrants in Europe
  PICUM (Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants), 2007
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• Undocumented Migrants Have Rights!
  PICUM (Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants), 2007
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• Trust is not enough: Bringing human rights to medicine
  D. Rothman & S. Rothman, New York Review Books, 2006
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• HIV/AIDs, Human Rights and Law. Network for Justice and Democracy (Nigeria), 2006
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• Global Health Watch Report 2005-2006
  Global Health Watch, 2005
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• Perspectives on Health and Human Rights
  S. Gruskin et al (eds), Routledge, 2005
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• Concise text and manual of forensic medicine, medical law and ethics in East Africa
  Independent Medico-legal Unit (IMLU), Kenya, 2005
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• Assessing the impact of parallel reporting on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
  D. Stoitchkova, Report commissioned by IFHHRO, 2004
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• The ‘Right to Health’ in European Union Law
  T. Hervey, in: Economic and Social Rights under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, T. Hervey & J. Kenner (eds), Hart Publishing, Oxford-Portland, Oregon, 2003
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• Environmental Protection, Public Health and Human Rights. An Integrated Assessment
  A. Karim Ahmed, 2003
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• Health and Human Rights Readers
  C. Schuftan, CEHAT, 2003
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• 25 Questions and Answers on Health and Human Rights
  WHO Health and Human Rights Publication Series, Nr. 1, 2002 (available in 10 languages)
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• The Medical Profession and Human Rights
  British Medical Association, 2001
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• Ethical Codes and Declarations Relevant to the Health Professions. An Amnesty International compilation of selected ethical and human rights texts
  Amnesty International, 2000
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• CESCR General Comment No.14 on the Right to Health
  CESCR, 2000
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• The Right to Health as a Human Right in International Law (dissertation)
  B. Toebes, School of Human Rights Research Series, Volume 1, Hart Intersentia, Antwerpen-Groningen-Oxford, 1999
• Medicine Betrayed
  British Medical Association, 1992
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Selected free access articles (2006-2010)*

• Household exposure to violence and human rights violations in western Bangladesh (I): prevalence, risk factors and consequences
  Shr-Jie Wang, Jens Modvig, Edith Montgomery, in BMC International Health and Human Rights, 9:29, 2009
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• Household exposure to violence and human rights violations in western Bangladesh (II): history of torture and other traumatic experience of violence and functional assessment of victims
  Shr-Jie Wang, Mohammad Haque, Saber-ud-Daula Masum, Shuvodwip Biswas, Jens Modvig, in: BMC International Health and Human Rights, 9:31, 2009
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• Measuring the health impact of human rights violations related to Australian asylum policies and practices: a mixed methods study
  Vanessa Johnston, Pascale Allotey, Kim Mulholland & Milica Markovic, in: BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2009, 9:1doi:10.1186/1472-698X-9-1
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• The forsaken mental health of the Indigenous Peoples - a moral case of outrageous exclusion in Latin America
  Mario Incayawar & Sioui Maldonado-Bouchard, in: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009, 9:27doi:10.1186/1472-698X-9-27
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• Developing a health and human rights training program for french speaking Africa: lessons learned, from needs assessment to a pilot program
  Philippe Chastonay, Axel Max Klohn, Véronique Zesiger et al., in: BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2009, 9:19doi:10.1186/1472-698X-9-19
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• Suffering and powerlessness: The significance of promoting participation in rights-based approaches to health
  Alicia Ely Yamin, in: Health and Human Rights, 11(1), 2009
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• The forsaken mental health of the Indigenous Peoples - a moral case of outrageous exclusion in Latin America
  Mario Incayawar & Sioui Maldonado-Bouchard, in: BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2009, 9:27doi:10.1186/1472-698X-9-27
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• Health and human rights education in U.S. schools of medicine and public health: current status and future challenges
  Emily Cotter, Jonathan Chevrier, Wael Noor El-Nachef et al., in: PLoS One, 2009;4(3):e4916. Epub 2009 Mar 18
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• Health systems and the right to health: an assessment of 194 countries
  Gunilla Backman, Paul Hunt, Rajat Khosla, et al., in: The Lancet, 13-19 December 2008
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• A Perspective on the History of Health and Human Rights: from the Cold War to the Gold War
  D. Tarantola, in: Journal of Public Health Policy, 29, 2008, p. 42-53
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• Exploring synergies between human rights and public health ethics: A whole greater than the sum of its parts
  Stephanie Nixon & Lisa Forman, in: BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2008, 8:2doi:10.1186/1472-698X-8-2
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• The dirty war index: a public health and human rights tool for examining and monitoring armed conflict outcomes
  Madelyn Hicks & Michael Spagat, in: PLoS Med, 2008 Dec 16;5(12):e243
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• History, principles, and practices of health and human rights
  S. Gruskin, E. Mills & D. Tarantola, in: The Lancet, Vol. 370, August 4, 2007
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• 'Issues of equity are also issues of rights': Lessons from experiences in Southern Africa
  Leslie London, in: BMC Public Health, 2007, 7:14doi:10.1186/1471-2458-7-14
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• Human rights, health and the state in Bangladesh
  Redwanur Rahman, in: BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2006, 6:4doi:10.1186/1472-698X-6-4
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• Health inequalities, physician citizens and professional medical associations: an Australian case study
  John Furler, Elizabeth Harris, Mark Harris, et al., in: BMC Medicine, 2007, 5:23doi:10.1186/1741-7015-5-23
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• History, principles, and practice of health and human rights
  Sofia Gruskin, E.J. Mills & Daniel Tarantola, in: The Lancet, 2007 Aug 4;370(9585):449-55
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• Health and human rights education in academic settings
  Daniel Tarantola & Sofia Gruskin, in: Health and Human Rights, 2006, 9(2):297-300
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• Rights-based approaches to health: something for everyone
  Sofia Gruskin, in: Health and Human Rights, 2006, 9(2):5-9
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  * More articles on health and human rights can be found in the archives of Health and Human Rights: An International Journal and BMC Health and Human Rights, two online open access journals.

  ** Articles in The Lancet can be accessed only after registration.

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