Blaming sick people for system failures is an old problem in public health, particularly when patients are poor or morally suspect. New analysis, though, is turning the microscope around to examine the ways that power structures, rather than individuals, contribute to disease spread.
Archive for February, 2012
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Posted in: Asia, Europe, Health, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: criminal justice, Daniel Wolfe, drug policy, drug users, harm reduction, HIV/AIDS, JAIDS, mass incarceration, over incarceration, public health
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Two legal aid clinics in eastern Congo are helping rape survivors seek justice while helping to cover medical expenses and providing daily psychological services.
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Much has been written about Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony Shadid in the weeks since his death at age 43 while on assignment in Syria. What I appreciated over the years was his honesty.
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By requiring states to guarantee human rights beyond their state´s territorial boundaries, Europe´s human rights court has upheld the primacy of fundamental rights and the rule of law.
Posted in: Asia, Europe, Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Justice
Topics: Case Watch, European Convention on Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights, Hirsi v. Italy, Italy, Libya, migration, MSS v Belgium and Greece, push back at sea, Sale v Haitian Centers Council, Simon Cox, Tunisia, xenophobia
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The evolution of the case load of the East African Court of Justice also reminds us that those who seek to promote human rights through the legal process must sometimes look beyond traditional forums in order to seek justice.
Posted in: Africa, Rights & Justice
Topics: Burundi, Case Watch, East African Community, East African Court, Kampala bombings, Katalin Dobias, Kenya, litigation, Mount Elgon, rendition, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
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In 2010, when I set out to launch a national storytelling project that would employ the talents of our best and brightest black male media makers, I envisioned a program that would extol the virtues of men of African descent that are often ignored in mainstream media. That vision had to do with, to...
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The state of Virginia recently had to make some difficult choices on how to spend its allowance (much like my adolescent self on countless occasions), and I am delighted to announce they made a practical decision.
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We urgently need debate on what the global norms for freedom of expression—not just national ones—should be. A new website aims to help make that happen.
Posted in: Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America & the Caribbean, Media & Arts, Middle East, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Arundhati Roy, Aryeh Neier, debate, free speech, Free Speech Debate, freedom of expression, Khaled Fahmy, Max Mosley, media freedom, Mohsen Kadivar, Timothy Garton Ash, Yan Xuetong
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A mobile court trained to handle rape cases in Eastern Congo is raising expectations among local people. But international donors must ensure that this vital project doesn't expire for lack of support next year.
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The story of Azimzhan Askarov, a human rights defender unfairly serving a life sentence in Kyrgyzstan, symbolizes the country's failing justice system and the ruling elite's unwillingness to safeguard basic rights for all Kyrgyz citizens.
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