Recent Articles
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Conflicting Interests
Rubinstein observes that health care practitioners can easily become conspirators in human rights abuses by placing the wishes of the state before the rights of ...
MAY 6, 2001 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 6 (Spring/Summer 2001): Rights and the Struggle for Health: Articles: Questioning Health and Human Rights
To curb Multi-Drug Resistant-TB, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) committed to WHO's directive that no patient be treated without 80 percent compliance of the population. ...
APR 19, 2001 • Article
Should States Apologize?
According to Chinese President Jiang Zemin, the United States owed China an official apology (baoqian) for sending out a spy plane that collided with a ...
APR 19, 2001 • Article
Exempting the United States from Equal Justice under Law
The International Criminal Court will indict individuals, not governments, and it will try only those accused of especially horrible crimes that "shock the conscience of ...