The recent rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines offers hope in addressing the worst
pandemic in a hundred years. However, many countries in the Global South face great …

Human rights-based approaches (HRBAs) promise greater alignment of development efforts
with universal norms, as well as a focus on the root causes of poverty. While HRBAs have …

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to international human rights--
international human rights law, why international human rights have increasingly risen to …

The polarized debate amongst states, scholars, and practitioners over the right to
development is underlined by salient paradoxes and contradictions. The rhetoric of the right …

(UDHR) and WHO coming into existence in 1948, there was great initial promise that these
two institutions would complement each other, with WHO-like the other specialized agencies …

While neoliberal globalisation is associated with increasing inequalities, global integration
has simultaneously strengthened the dissemination of human rights discourse across the …

This book examines the relationship between intellectual property in pharmaceuticals and
access to medicines from a human rights perspective, with a view to contributing to the …

Set in 2000, with a completion date of 2015, the deadline for the Millennium Development
Goals is approaching, at which time a new global development infrastructure will become …

The right to health has been advanced as one of the key elements to creating pro-poor
people-centred health systems (Hunt and Backman 2008; Gruskin et al. 2012). However …

The Preamble to the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UNDHR) calls on every organ
of society to teach and educate for the promotion of the rights it contains. However, few if any …