2015 Archives - Page 5 of 9 - USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health

Indonesia project aims to increase access to justice, health, human rights

Posted on June 23, 2015February 25, 2016

The USC Program on Global Health & Human Rights has begun a new project with the Open Society Foundations focused on strengthening the capacity of and increasing access to justice for people who use drugs, with a special ... read more →

Human rights partnership continues with UNDP

Posted on June 23, 2015August 16, 2018

The USC Program on Global Health & Human Rights and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have agreed to continue to work together, building on their recently completed project entitled "Strengthening Regional a... read more →

Dr. Ferguson assisting monitoring and evaluation in The Gambia

Posted on June 23, 2015January 5, 2016

This month Professor Laura Ferguson traveled to The Gambia to continue her ongoing work with the World Bank focused on maternal and child nutrition and health. The primary purpose of this trip was to assist the monitoring and... read more →

Professor Gruskin lectures for Heidelberg University, Germany

Posted on June 23, 2015September 15, 2015

This month Professor Sofia Gruskin lectured remotely for the Masters Program in International Health at Heidelberg University, Germany. Her session focused on the history, content and application of rights-based approaches in... read more →

New report targets discrimination, violence based on sexual orientation, gender identity

Posted on June 23, 2015September 15, 2015

This month the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a new report to the UN Human Rights Council on discrimination and violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity. The... read more →

Integrating Human Rights in Program Evaluation: Lessons From Law and Health Programs in Kenya

Posted on June 18, 2015August 21, 2018

Methods for assessing both the inclusion and impact of human rights within health program design and implementation are still nascent. We used human rights concepts and methods to evaluate the programs of three Kenyan nongove... read more →

Sexual health, human rights, and the law

Posted on June 1, 2015August 21, 2018

This report demonstrates the relationship between sexual health, human rights and the law. Drawing from a review of public health evidence and extensive research into human rights law at international, regional and national l... read more →

Is the right to health compatible with sustainability?

Posted on June 1, 2015August 21, 2018

"One of the fundamental human rights is the right of every individual to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health, which we simplify to ‘HASH’ [1]. The HASH right was first articulated in the preamble to... read more →

Notions of punishment and justice

Posted on May 23, 2015September 15, 2015

A two-day USC conference in late April explored Austin Sarat’s Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty. "Execution, Spectacle, Law: A symposium on capital punishment with Austin Sarat" was orga... read more →

Changing Perspectives of Reproductive and Sexual Rights

Posted on May 23, 2015September 15, 2015

Professor Sofia Gruskin delivered a talk entitled "Reproductive and Sexual Rights: Changing Perspectives from Cairo & Beijing (1990s) to Transgender Population & the International Classification of Diseases (2015)," a... read more →