We would like to invite you to view the latest issue of Health and Human Rights: An International Journal. Full-text articles from this theme issue on “Non-discrimination and Equality” are now available at
http://www.hhrjournal.org/.
Volume 11, Number 2, includes conceptual articles on the correlation between discrimination and health inequity, from the mental health field to Brazil’s litigation practices. The journal also features analyses of Kenya’s cash transfer program, New Orleans’ housing rights post-Katrina, and Mexico’s reproductive rights, among other topics of global resonance.
The full table of contents, which includes an exciting array of essays grouped under “Critical Concepts” or “Health and Human Rights in Practice,” is provided below. Please visit our website for free full text online.
We also invite submissions for forthcoming issues. The deadline for our next theme issue, on “The Social Conditions of Health: Convergences and Dysjunctures,” is March 15, 2010. Further submissions information is available at: http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/about/submissions.
Health and Human Rights: An International Journal, Volume 11, Number 2
Table of Contents
Critical Concepts
Shades of dignity: Exploring the demands of equality in applying human rights frameworks to health
Alicia Ely Yamin
Mental health and inequity: A human rights approach to inequality, discrimination, and mental disability
Jonathan Kenneth Burns
The right to health in the courts of Brazil: Worsening health inequities?
Octavio Luiz Motta Ferraz
Untangling equality and non-discrimination to promote the right to health care for all
Gillian MacNaughton
Health and Human Rights in Practice
Kenya’s cash transfer program: Protecting the health and human rights of orphans and vulnerable children
John H. Bryant
Reproductive rights violations reported by Mexican women with HIV
Tamil Kendall
HIV screening and care for immigration detainees
Homer D. Venters, Jennifer McNeely, Allen S. Keller
No shelter from the storm: Reclaiming the right to housing and protecting the health of vulnerable communities in post-Katrina New Orleans
Tiffany M. Gardner, Alec Irwin, Curtis W. Peterson
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