In the 1800’s and early 1900’s, women were on the backend of the political system in the U.S. Women’s rights were very limited across the country, and the limitations of these rights were considered a norm [1]. In the 1960’s, a Texas woman named Sarah Weddington, saw firsthand the struggle that women in her generation faced. She faced a lot of discriminations both in her college years and durin...

Childhood obesity is now a global health epidemic, yet the obligations of states to prevent obesity through fulfillment of the right to health have received limited consideration. This article examines the childhood obesity recommendations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (the committee on the CRC), the Special Rapporteur on the right to health, and the UN High Commissioner on Hum...

This chapter is guided by the right to life, a universal human rights principle enshrined in all international human rights instruments, including the CRC. Article 6 recognizes that every child has the right to life, survival and development. This provision has been interpreted to mean that measures taken by the State should be “of a positive nature and thus designed to protect life, including ...

www.thelancet.com Vol 370 September 8, 2007 827 WHO, and we hope that these can be built on. We also agree that WHO needs to collaborate with others and that there are circumstances under which rapid processes are needed. However, systematic reviews should be used to inform those processes whenever possible, and when systematic reviews are not available, the evidence that was used and the metho...

A 1987 New York Times editorial noted that the refusal of physicians and dentists to treat patients infected with the AIDS virus is the most painful symptom produced by the fear of AIDS. 3 An editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) echoed this concern. 4 C. Everett Koop, the Surgeon General of the United States, admitted that he is getting more reports of health care...

This paper deals with the subject of the various relations existing between intellectual property and the right to health. Reference will be made, within the industrial property system, especially to patents, as a crucial instrument in the development of the pharmaceutical industry, which in turn has afforded the world’s population greater and better access to health systems. Clearly therefore,...