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United Nations' Human Right Documents
 

   

Human Rights and the Law
HIV Infection/Disease

HIV Infection/Disease

        Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
AIDS and the Law: Then and Now
Andrias RT,  Sullivan
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Human Rights Magazine Fall 2004
Paper

Human Rights and Technology
 

        Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Human rights in the biotechnology era 1
Benatar SR  
BMC Int Health Hum Rights 2002 Apr 17;2(1):3
Paper

Essential Medicines
 

        Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
A human rights approach to the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines.
Seuba X.  
 
Bull World Health Organ. 2006 May;84(5):405-407.
Paper
 
FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Essential medicines and human rights: what can they learn from each other?
Hogerzeil HV.  

Bull World Health Organ.
2006 May;84(5):371-375.
Paper

Women’s Rights
 

        Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  Realizing the Promise of the Global Plan: Engaging Communities and Promoting the Health and Human Rights of Women Living With HIV
Matheson R, Brion S, Sharma A, et al  
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr
. 2017 May 1;75 Suppl 1:S86-S93
Abstract

HIV-positive women in northeast Brazil: Tubal sterilization, medical recommendation and
reproductive rights.

Oliveira F, Kerr L, Frota A, et al
AIDS Care.
2007 Nov;19(10):1258-65.
Abstract


Children’s Rights
 

        Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Neonatal euthanasia: moral considerations and criminal liability.
Sklansky M
J Med Ethics 2001; 27:5-11
Abstract

Fetal Rights
 

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Protection of human research subjects. Final rule.
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).  
Fed Regist 2001 Nov 13;66(219):56775-80
Abstract

Prisoners' Rights
 

       Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 

 
Bridging community and prison for older adults: invoking human rights and elder and intergenerational family justice.
Maschi T, Viola D, T Harrison M, et al 
Int J Prison Health. 2014 Mar 12;10(1):55-73.
Abstract

It's doom alone that counts": can international human rights law be an effective source of rights in correctional conditions litigation?
Perlin ML, Dlugacz HA.
Behav Sci Law. 2009;27(5):675-94.
Abstract

Torture and its sequel-a comparison between victims from six countries.
Moisander PA, Edston E.
Forensic Sci Int. 2003 Nov 26;137(2-3):133-40.
Abstract
 

Custody-related deaths in durban, South Africa 1998-2000.
Bhana BD.
Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 2003 Jun;24(2):202-7
Abstract

FULL-TEXT  ARTICLE
HRW World Report 2002: Ending the Abusive Treatment of Prisoners
Human Rights Watch; World Report 2002-Prisons
May 2003
Paper
 

  FULL-TEXT  ARTICLE
Incarcerated America
Human Rights Watch Backgrounder 
April 2003
PDF Paper
 
Pregnant and imprisoned in the United States.
Amnesty International.

Birth 2000 Dec;27(4):266-271
Abstract
 

Right to Health
 

        Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
Health systems and the right to health: an assessment of 194 countries.
Backman G, Hunt P, Khosla R, Jaramillo-Strouss, et al  

Lancet
. 2008 Dec 13;372(9655):2047-85.
Abstract

Neglected diseases, civil conflicts, and the right to health.
Beyrer C, Villar JC, Suwanvanichkij V, et al
Lancet. 2007 Aug 18;370(9587):619-27.
Abstract


Right to Palliative Care
 

        Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Palliative care as an international human right.
Brennan E
J Pain Symptom Manage. 2007 May;33(5):494-9.

Abstract

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