Books, Reports & Articles

Books and reports

• Mental Health and Human Rights. Vision, praxis, and courage
  Oxford University Press, 2012 

• Poor Access to Pain Treatment: Advancing a Human Right to Pain Relief
  Marie Elske Gispen, IFHHRO 2012 

• The Human Right to Health
  Jonathan Wolff, Amnesty International, 2012

• The Right to Health
  Gunilla Backman (Ed.), Studentlitteratur, 2012

• Health and Human Rights in Europe
  Brigit Toebes, Mette Hartlev, Aart Hendriks & Janne Rothmar Herrmann (eds.), Intersentia Uitgevers, 2012

• Global Health Watch 3 - an Alternative World Health Report
  People's Health Movement, 2011

• Preventing Torture: the role of physicians and their professional organisations: principles and practice
  Medact, 2011

• Practices in adopting a human rights-based approach to eliminate preventable maternal mortality and human rights (report A/HRC/18/27)
  Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2011

• Community Monitoring for Accountability in Health: Review of Literature
  Walter Flores, Accountability and Monitoring in Health Initiative Public Health Program, Open Society Foundations, 2011

• Improving Equity in Health by Addressing Social Determinants
  Jennifer H. Lee and Ritu Sadana, Commission on Social Determinants of Health Knowledge Networks, World Health Organization, 2011

• The Neglected Shadow: enlightening the right to mental health under international human rights law
  Sukanja Deshraj, Public International Law, University of Utrecht, August 2010

• Chances for Change. Dutch measures to improve the global distribution of health personnel
  Wemos, 2010

• Global Health and Human Rights. Legal and Philosophical Perspectives
  J. Harrington & M. Stuttaford (Eds). Routledge, 2010

• A Bad Story - Report on the Ponte Galeria (Rome) identification and deportation centre for immigrants without residence permits (executive summary)
  Medici per i Diritti Umani (MEDU), November 2010

• Health and Social Justice
  J. Prah Ruger, Oxford University Press, 2010

• Respect, Protect and Fulfill: Legislating for Women’s Rights in the Context of HIV/AIDS — Volume One: Sexual and Domestic Violence
  R. Pearshouse & A. Symington, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, 2009

• Migration and the Right to Health: A Review of International Law
  Paola Pace, IOM/International Migration Law N°19, 2009

• Circles of Exclusion. The Politics of Health Care in Israel
  D. Filc, Cornell University Press, 2009

• Human Rights Guidelines for Pharmaceutical Companies in relation to Access to Medicines: The Sexual and Reproductive Health Context
  R. Khosla & P. Hunt, Right to Health Unit, 2009

• "Please, do not make us suffer any more…" Access to Pain Treatment as a Human Right
  Human Rights Watch, 2009

• "Unbearable Pain - India's Obligation to ensure Palliative Care"
  Human Rights Watch, 2009

• Human Rights and Social Justice. Social Action and Service for the Helping and Health Professions
  J. Wronka, SAGE Publications, 2008

• Ten Reasons to Oppose the Criminalization of HIV Exposure or Transmission
  Open Society Institute, 2008 (available in several languages)

• "Safari research". Clinical trials and human rights violations in low- and middle-income countries
  M. Fialho Kierulf, European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation, 2008

• Primary Health Care - Now More Than Ever. The World Health Report 2008
  World Health Organization, 2008 

• An International Human Right: Sexuality Education for Adolescents in Schools
  Centre for Reproductive Rights, 2008

• From Outrage to Courage: Women Taking Action for Health and Justice
  A. Firth Murray, Common Courage Press, 2008

• Public Health: Ethical Issues
  The Nuffield Council on Bioethics (UK), 2007 

• Public Health and Human Rights: Evidence-Based Approaches
  C. Beyrer & H. Pizer (eds.), The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

• Gender, health and human rights in sites of political exclusion
  R. Petchesky & M. Laurie, 2007

• Epidemic of Inequality. Women’s Rights and HIV/AIDS in Botswana & Swaziland. An Evidence-Based Report on the Effects of Gender Inequity, Stigma and Discrimination
  Physicians for Human Rights, 2007

• Women’s health and human rights : Monitoring the implementation of CEDAW
  World Health Organization, 2007

• Reclaiming the Resources for Health – A regional analysis of equity in health in East and Southern Africa
  EQUINET, 2007

• Overcoming barriers: Migration, Marginalisation and Access to Health and Social Services
  Correlation, 2007

• The Impact of Acts of Corruption on the Enjoyment of the Right to Health.
  Research Paper for the International Council on Human Rights Policy Project: Corruption and Human Rights
  B. Toebes, UK, June 2007

• Access to Health Care for Undocumented Migrants in Europe
  PICUM (Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants), 2007

• Undocumented Migrants Have Rights!
  PICUM (Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants), 2007

• HIV/AIDs, Human Rights and Law
  Network for Justice and Democracy (Nigeria), 2006

• Global Health Watch Report 2005-2006
  Global Health Watch, 2005

• Perspectives on Health and Human Rights
  S. Gruskin et al. (eds), Routledge, 2005

• Concise text and manual of forensic medicine, medical law and ethics in East Africa
  Independent Medico-legal Unit (IMLU), Kenya, 2005

• Assessing the impact of parallel reporting on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
  D. Stoitchkova, Report commissioned by IFHHRO, 2004

• The ‘Right to Health’ in European Union Law
  T. Hervey, in: Economic and Social Rights under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, T. Hervey & J. Kenner (eds), Hart Publishing, Oxford-Portland, Oregon, 2003
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• Health and Human Rights Readers
  C. Schuftan, CEHAT, 2003
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• Dual Loyalty & Human Rights, in Health Professional Practice
  A Project of the International Dual Loyalty Working Group; A Collaborative Initiative of Physicians for Human Rights and the School of Public Health and Primary Health Care University of Cape Town, Health Sciences Faculty 

• 25 Questions and Answers on Health and Human Rights
  WHO Health and Human Rights Publication Series, Nr. 1, 2002 (available in 10 languages)

• The Medical Profession and Human Rights
  British Medical Association, 2001
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• People's Charter for Health
  People's Health Movement, 2000
  
  
• Ethical Codes and Declarations Relevant to the Health Professions. An Amnesty International compilation of selected ethical and human rights texts
  Amnesty International, 2000
  Read online

• The Right to Health as a Human Right in International Law (dissertation)
  B. Toebes, School of Human Rights Research Series, Volume 1, Hart Intersentia, Antwerpen-Groningen-Oxford, 1999

• Medicine Betrayed
  British Medical Association, 1992
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Selected free access articles (2006-2010)*

• Toward Transformative Accountability: Applying a Rights-based Approach to Fulfll Maternal Health obligations
  Alicia Ely Yamin, in: SUR, International Journal on Human Rights, 12, 2010, 95-122

• Millennium Development Goal 6 and the Right to Health: conflictual or complementary?
  Sarah Zaidi, in: SUR, International Journal on Human Rights, 12, 2010, 123-144

• Using human rights for sexual and reproductive health: improving legal and regulatory frameworks
  J. Cottingham, E. Kismodi, A. Hilber et al., in: Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2010, Jul 1;88(7):551-5

• Debate: Limitations on universality: the "right to health" and the necessity of legal nationality
  Lindsey Kingston, Elizabeth Cohen & Christopher Morley, in: BMC Intenational Health and Human Rights, 2010, doi: 10.1186/1472-698X-10-11

• The ethics of everyday practice in primary medical care: responding to social health inequities
  John Furler & Victoria Palmer, in: Philos Ethics Humanit Med, 2010, 5: 6, doi: 10.1186/1747-5341-5-6

• Human rights and health go hand-in-hand
  In: Bull World Health Organ, 2010, February; 88(2): 88–89, doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.030210

• Access to pain treatment as a human right
  Diederik Lohman, Rebecca Schleifer & Joseph Amon, in: BMC Med, 2010; 8: 8, doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-8-8

• Using indicators to determine the contribution of human rights to public health efforts
  Sofia Gruskin & Laura Ferguson, in: Bull World Health Organ, 2009 September; 87(9): 714–719, doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.058321

• Child Marriage: A Silent Health and Human Rights Issue
  Nawal Nour, in: Rev Obstet Gynecol, 2009 Winter; 2(1): 51–56 

• How Do Courts Set Health Policy? The Case of the Colombian Constitutional Court
  Alicia Ely Yamin & Oscar Parra-Vera, in: PLoS Med, 2009 February; 6(2): e1000032, doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000032

• Measuring the health impact of human rights violations related to Australian asylum policies and practices: a mixed methods study
  Vanessa Johnston, Pascale Allotey, Kim Mulholland & Milica Markovic, in: BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2009, 9:1doi:10.1186/1472-698X-9-1 

• The forsaken mental health of the Indigenous Peoples - a moral case of outrageous exclusion in Latin America
  Mario Incayawar & Sioui Maldonado-Bouchard, in: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009, 9:27doi:10.1186/1472-698X-9-27 

• Developing a health and human rights training program for french speaking Africa: lessons learned, from needs assessment to a pilot program
  Philippe Chastonay, Axel Max Klohn, Véronique Zesiger et al., in: BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2009, 9:19doi:10.1186/1472-698X-9-19 

• Suffering and powerlessness: The significance of promoting participation in rights-based approaches to health
  Alicia Ely Yamin, in: Health and Human Rights, 11(1), 2009 

• The forsaken mental health of the Indigenous Peoples - a moral case of outrageous exclusion in Latin America
  Mario Incayawar & Sioui Maldonado-Bouchard, in: BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2009, 9:27doi:10.1186/1472-698X-9-27 

• Health and human rights education in U.S. schools of medicine and public health: current status and future challenges
  Emily Cotter, Jonathan Chevrier, Wael Noor El-Nachef et al., in: PLoS One, 2009;4(3):e4916. Epub 2009 Mar 18  

• Health systems and the right to health: an assessment of 194 countries
  Gunilla Backman, Paul Hunt, Rajat Khosla, et al., in: The Lancet, 13-19 December 2008

• The human right to medicines
  Paul Hunt and Rajat Khosla, in: SUR, International Journal on Human Rights, 8, 2008

• Process is the point: justice and human rights: priority setting and fair deliberative process
  Sofia Gruskin & N. Daniels, in: Am J Public Health, 2008 Sep;98(9):1573-7

• A Perspective on the History of Health and Human Rights: from the Cold War to the Gold War
  Daniel Tarantola, in: Journal of Public Health Policy, 29, 2008, p. 42-53 

• Exploring synergies between human rights and public health ethics: A whole greater than the sum of its parts
  Stephanie Nixon & Lisa Forman, in: BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2008, 8:2doi:10.1186/1472-698X-8-2 

• The dirty war index: a public health and human rights tool for examining and monitoring armed conflict outcomes
  Madelyn Hicks & Michael Spagat, in: PLoS Med, 2008 Dec 16;5(12):e243  

• Using human rights to improve maternal and neonatal health: history, connections and a proposed practical approach
  In: Bull World Health Organ, 2008 August; 86(8): 589–593,doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.050500

• History, principles, and practices of health and human rights
  Sofia Gruskin, Edward Mills & Daniel Tarantola, in: The Lancet, Vol. 370, August 4, 2007 

• 'Issues of equity are also issues of rights': Lessons from experiences in Southern Africa
  Leslie London, in: BMC Public Health, 2007, 7:14doi:10.1186/1471-2458-7-14 

• Conflict and health: a paradigm shift in global health and human rights
  Sonal Singh, James Orbinski & Edward Mills, in: Confl Health, 2007; 1: 1, doi: 10.1186/1752-1505-1-1

• Health, human rights, and the conduct of clinical research within oppressed populations
  Edward Mills & Sonal Singh, in: Global Health, 2007; 3: 10, doi: 10.1186/1744-8603-3-10

• Human rights, health and the state in Bangladesh
  Redwanur Rahman, in: BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2006, 6:4doi:10.1186/1472-698X-6-4 

• Health inequalities, physician citizens and professional medical associations: an Australian case study
  John Furler, Elizabeth Harris, Mark Harris, et al., in: BMC Medicine, 2007, 5:23doi:10.1186/1741-7015-5-23  **

• History, principles, and practice of health and human rights
  Sofia Gruskin, E.J. Mills & Daniel Tarantola, in: The Lancet, 2007 Aug 4;370(9585):449-55  **

• Health and human rights education in academic settings
  Daniel Tarantola & Sofia Gruskin, in: Health and Human Rights, 2006, 9(2):297-300  

• Rights-based approaches to health: something for everyone
  Sofia Gruskin, in: Health and Human Rights, 2006, 9(2):5-9  

* More articles on health and human rights can be found in the archives of Health and Human Rights: An International Journal and BMC Health and Human Rights, two online open access journals.

** Articles in The Lancet can be accessed only after registration.