For too long, human rights organizations have shied away from making disability rights part of their mandate. This must change.
Archive for the “Health” Category
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Posted in: Africa, Asia, Europe, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Middle East, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, Council of Europe, disability rights, human rights, Interights, Ireland, Mary McAleese, Susan Treadwell, Thomas Hammarberg, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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Over the past decade, governments have increasingly turned to arbitrary detention, cruelty, and even torture in order to combat drug abuse.
Posted in: Asia, Europe, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Cambodia, Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, China, drug detention, drug policy, drug treatment, drug users, forced labor, harm reduction, HIV/AIDS, human rights, international justice, Mexico, public health, Roxanne Saucier, Russia, torture, war on drugs
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New guidelines bring us one step closer to ending the forced sterilization of women. Now governments need to put the guidelines into practice, to ensure that health care providers protect the rights of all women.
Posted in: Africa, Europe, Health, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, forced sterilization, HIV/AIDS, human rights, International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, marginalized groups, North Carolina, public health, reproductive rights, Roma, Roma health, Tamar Ezer, women
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In Thailand, the drug war has failed to stem the spread of HIV among injection drug users. New video testimony suggests harm reduction services are needed instead.
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We can't fix a broken food system simply by changing what's on our plate. The answer lies in our willingness to shift from being concerned consumers to engaged citizens.
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In Hungary, Roma women are three times more likely to die from cancer as their non-Roma counterparts. Yet 90 percent of these cases could be cured if detected in time and treated appropriately.
Posted in: Europe, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: Bernard Rorke, breast cancer, cancer, EU, Europe, Hungary, Roma, Roma health, women's health
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As many as one million Ukrainians may be living with hepatitis C, yet neither testing nor treatment for the disease are widely available.
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Despite UN recognition of the importance of HIV-prevention outreach to at-risk populations, the inability to protect sex workers from HIV remains appalling.
Posted in: Africa, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Justice
Topics: Argentina, Ban Ki-moon, Ghana, Heather Doyle, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, HIV prevention, HIV/AIDS, human rights, Kenya, Macedonia, Malawi, public health, sex workers, South Africa, Uganda, UN High Level Meeting on AIDS, UNAIDS, United Nations, Zimbabwe
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Nearly 10 million people—innocent or guilty—around the world are detained before trial, sometimes for months and even years. Infectious diseases such as HIV spread quickly in these settings, but few provide even basic health care.
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Russia saw a rare feat in health care this week: When patient advocates called for less expensive HIV treatment, one drug manufacturer responded by cutting the price in half.