Transcript Defending the Right to Health: A Summer at Human Rights Watch

Defending the Right to Health:
A Summer at Human Rights Watch
Angelina Caruso
Health Grand Challenges Initiative
The Future of Global AIDS Treatment & The Social Determinants of Health
Coordinated by Prof. João Biehl
What is HRW?
Some Impacts from 2010
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United States HIV Ban
Cambodian drug detention centers
Segregation of HIV + prisoners in Mississippi
Corporal punishment in Zambian prisons
The Right to Health
“The States Parties to the present Covenant
recognize the right of everyone to the
enjoyment of the highest attainable standard
of physical and mental health.”
-International Covenant on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) – Article 12
Minimum Requirements
• Ensure access to and equitable distribution of health
facilitates, goods and services on a non-discriminatory basis
• Provide essential drugs, (defined under WHO Action
Programme on Essential Drugs)
• Adopt and implement a national public health strategy and
plan of action.
-ICESCR General Comment No. 14: The Right to the
Highest Attainable Standard of Health
International AIDS Conference 2010
Long Term Project:
Transgender Health and Legal Rights
Terms
• Transgender
• Transsexual
• Gender Identity Disorder (GIS)
• Gender (or Sex) Reassignment Surgery
Legal Status in Europe
• European Union report findings
• Variations across the continent
Transgender Rights in the
Netherlands
• Problematic law
• Signs of progress
Health and Human Rights:
Solidifying the Connection