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UNICEF/UN011574/Ueslei Marcelino
Background Reports

A Gendered Human Rights Analysis of Ebola and Zika: Locating Gender in Global Health Emergencies

Globally gender remains a key factor in differing health outcomes for men and women. This article analyses the particular relevance of gender for debates about global health and the role...
International Affairs
2016
UNICEF/UNI177688/UNMEER Martine Perret
Background Reports

Biosocial Approaches to the 2013-2016 Ebola Pandemic

Despite more than 25 documented outbreaks of Ebola since 1976, our understanding of the disease is limited, in particular the social, political, ecological, and economic forces that promote (or limit)...
Health and Human Rights Journal
2015
UNICEF/UN028257/Page
Background Reports

Social Justice, Climate Change, and Dengue

Climate change should be viewed fundamentally as an issue of global justice. Understanding the complex interplay of climatic and socioeconomic trends is imperative to protect human health and lessen the...
Health and Human Rights Journal
2014
UNICEF/UNI186566/Mugab
Background Reports

Challenging Orthodoxies: The Road Ahead for Health and Human Rights

Two decades of work delivering health care in poor communities provide a standpoint from which to challenge conventional doctrines in human rights and public health. These orthodoxies include the priority...
Health and Human Rights Journal
2013
UNICEF/UNI186569/Pflanz
Background Reports

Interview with Francisco Songane: Evidence of Impact of Human Rights-Based Approaches to Health

Dr. Francisco Songane was Mozambique’s minister of health from 2000 to 2004. During his tenure, he oversaw the introduction of innovative strategies to tackle malaria and hepatitis B. In addition...
Health and Human Rights Journal
2015
UNICEF/UNI182438/Schermbrucker
Background Reports

Transforming Policy into Justice: The Role of Health Advocates in Mozambique

Despite expanding policy commitments in many poor countries, health care is often a failure at the point of delivery. Lack of information, poor enforcement, and power dynamics prevent those whose...
Health and Human Rights Journal
2016
UNICEF/UN035982/LeMoyne
Background Reports

Prioritizing Health: A Human Rights Analysis of Disaster, Vulnerability, and Urbanization in New Orleans and Port-au-Prince

Climate change prompts increased urbanization and vulnerability to natural hazards. Urbanization processes are relevant to a right to health analysis of natural hazards because they can exacerbate pre-disaster inequalities that...
Health and Human Rights Journal
2014
UNICEF/UNI174715/Nesbitt
Briefings

Ebola and Human Rights: Insight from Experts

Ebola demonstrates the critical link between health and human rights, the lack of governance, and the misdirection that befalls the international community in addressing such outbreaks. Human rights experts agree...
Health and Human Rights Journal
2014
UNICEF/UN029601/Libório
Briefings

Using a Human Rights Accountability Framework to Respond to Zika

Like other mosquito-borne viruses, Zika thrives in areas with substandard sanitation and infrastructure—which are directly linked to state failures to ensure the basic human right to an adequate standard of...
Health and Human Rights Journal
2016
UNICEF/UN034849/Abassi, UN-MINUSTAH
Background Reports

Measuring the Way Forward in Haiti: Grounding Disaster Relief in the Legal Framework of Human Rights

This article provides results from an online survey of humanitarian workers and volunteers that was conducted in May and June 2010. The purpose of the survey was to understand how...
Health and Human Rights Journal
2013
UNICEF/UNI164951/Terdjman
Background Reports

Health through People’s Empowerment: A Rights-Based Approach to Participation

Analysis of the academic discourse on participation, empowerment, and the right to health since the 1978 Alma-Ata International Conference on Primary Health Care and the subsequent Alma-Ata Declaration shows that...
Health and Human Rights Journal
2013
UNICEF/UNI135622/Brooks
Briefings

Sand and Dust Storms Fact Sheet

Sand and dust storms are a global environmental problem that affects the health and livelihoods of millions of people across the world. These storms, which have increased in frequency, intensity...
UNEA
2016
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