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MAY 6, 2001 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 6 (Spring/Summer 2001): Rights and the Struggle for Health: Articles: Transforming Practice through Activism
In the systematic promotion and defense of a person's right to adequate health care, Chilean activists have a multitude of opportunities both to require health ...
MAY 6, 2001 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 6 (Spring/Summer 2001): Rights and the Struggle for Health: Articles: Applying Human Rights to the HIV/AIDS Crisis
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), a South African NGO, campaigns for access to treatment for HIV/AIDS patients, but the international community must address&...
MAY 6, 2001 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 6 (Spring/Summer 2001): Rights and the Struggle for Health: Articles: Temporary Health Care, Lasting Power
Richard A. Murphy tells how human rights advocacy helped the displaced citizens of Princeville, North Carolina, take on FEMA.
MAY 6, 2001 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 6 (Spring/Summer 2001): Rights and the Struggle for Health: Articles: Using Indicators to Guide Advocates
Oil production in the Ecuadorian Amazon made people sick, and there emerged the Frente de Defensa de la Amazonia, a coalition of 300 indigenous ...
MAY 6, 2001 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 6 (Spring/Summer 2001): Rights and the Struggle for Health: Articles: Operationalizing Human Rights
In the face of a diminishing social safety net, a growing number of NGOs in the United States have drawn upon human rights standards in ...
MAY 6, 2001 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 6 (Spring/Summer 2001): Rights and the Struggle for Health: Articles: The New Partnership of Health and Human Rights
The linking of health and human rights (H&HR) describes health status by the degree to which human rights are enjoyed. It&...
MAY 6, 2001 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 6 (Spring/Summer 2001): Rights and the Struggle for Health: Online Exclusive: Balancing Population Concerns with Women's Rights
India's population policy has adopted a human rights language. But, as Rachel Kumar explains, women's reproductive rights are still in danger
MAY 6, 2001 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 6 (Spring/Summer 2001): Rights and the Struggle for Health: Online Exclusive: The Limits of Human Rights in Vietnam
While human rights are not unheard of in Vietnam, Nguyen Thi Minh Chau and Julie Yoder explain, they are of limited use in addressing the ...
MAY 6, 2001 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 6 (Spring/Summer 2001): Rights and the Struggle for Health: Online Exclusive: Protecting the Mentally Disabled
Albania's treatment of the mentally disabled needs improvement. Harvey Weinstein, Ira Burnim, and Robert Okin tell how a human rights framework can help.
APR 19, 2001 • Article
Willing to Kill But Not to Die?
Is American policy drifting toward an approach that could be labeled "willing to kill but not to die"? If we consider ourselves a moral nation, ...