Coronavirus and the Right to Health of Prisoners
With over 500 cases of COVID-19 reported in Chinese prisons and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian ...
Right to Health
Using Human Rights Law to Address the Sanitation Crisis in Makhanda
As the current Oxford Human Rights Hub/Rhodes University Travelling Fellow, I’ll be blogging about my experiences ...
Justice Kennedy on Healthcare
Justice Anthony Kennedy, who long served as the swing vote on important healthcare-related decisions, retired from ...
Argentine Senate Rejects Bill on Abortion: The Way Forward
The Argentine Senate has recently rejected, by a 7-vote margin, a Bill passed by the Chamber of Deputies on the ...
New Legislation Promoting the Right to Health in Karnataka, India
After a long standoff between private doctors and the Government of Karnataka, India, The Karnataka Medical ...
Recent Legislative Progress on Healthcare Law in China: Establishing “Right to Health” as a Basic Right
In Chinese law, a “right to health” has long existed as a negative civil right in Civil Law. For the first time in ...
Gaining More from Human Rights: Access to Health Care and Surviving Childbirth is not Enough
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 seeks to ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all, at all ages. ...
Establishing a breach of Article 3 in medical cases: The ‘applicability’ of Strasbourg jurisprudence (update)
Following my earlier blog post on the case of EA, the CA last week handed down its judgment in AM (Zimbabwe) v ...
Establishing a breach of Article 3 in medical cases: The ‘applicability’ of Strasbourg jurisprudence
In EA & Ors (Article 3 medical cases – Paposhvili not applicable) [2017] UKUT 00445, the Upper Tribunal ...
U.S. Senate Unveils Health Care Bill Designed to Dismantle the ACA
On May 4, 2017, the United States House of Representatives voted in favor of the American Health Care Act of 2017 ...
Human Rights, the Environment and Mining: Holding Transnational Corporations Accountable
Litigation that tests the division between corporate and state human rights obligations, and the synergies between ...
The European Court of Human Rights and the Emerging Right to Health
The ‘right to health’ is, perhaps unsurprisingly, absent from the European Convention on Human Rights. In a number ...
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