{"title":"No Dignity on the Floor: A Human Rights Argument for Adult-Sized Changing Tables in Public Restrooms in the United States.","authors":"Geffen Treiman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many individuals with disabilities utilize adult-sized changing tables to take care of their toileting needs with the help of a caregiver.<sup>1</sup> These tables are not explicitly required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and no legal case in the United States has yet addressed whether the ADA requires public restrooms to have adult changing tables.<sup>2</sup> This paper draws on an analysis of op-eds and news articles published in the United States to explore how individuals with disabilities and their caregivers access public restrooms that do not provide adult-sized changing tables. These experiences demonstrate violations of the human rights to accessibility, integrity, and health as outlined in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Utilizing a human rights analysis, I argue that adult-sized changing tables are inherently the same as toilets and that providing one but not the other in public facilities may constitute discrimination under the ADA. Finally, I briefly explore promising initiatives that would increase access to adult-sized changing tables in the United States.</p>","PeriodicalId":46953,"journal":{"name":"Health and Human Rights","volume":"25 1","pages":"213-221"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/5a/9d/hhr-25-01-213.PMC10309150.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9741818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of Human Rights Council Reports on Mental Health.","authors":"Carmel Williams, Audrey R Chapman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46953,"journal":{"name":"Health and Human Rights","volume":"24 2","pages":"85-99"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9790957/pdf/hhr-24-02-085.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9180647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leaving No One Behind: Human Rights and Gender as Critical Frameworks for U=U.","authors":"Laura Ferguson, William Jardell, Sofia Gruskin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Experience has shown the need to explicitly address human rights and gender-related barriers in the rollout of HIV-related biomedical innovations, including \"undetectable equals untransmittable\" (U=U). This paper brings to light rights and gender considerations relevant to supporting U=U, recognizing a range of barriers that remain to be addressed for all people to benefit equally from U=U. We conducted a literature review to ascertain how human rights and gender were addressed in relevant publications, including peer-reviewed articles published between 2006 and 2020, relevant nongovernmental and global organizations' publications, and abstracts presented at the 2019 International AIDS Conference, that explicitly addressed U=U or \"treatment as prevention.\" Despite evidence to illustrate the importance of attention to human rights and gender within U=U policies and interventions, there remains a lack of explicit attention to human rights and gender considerations in research and programming, particularly with regard to the rights principles of participation and accountability. Explicitly engaging all of these dimensions is key to informing interventions and improving people's lives, health, and well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":46953,"journal":{"name":"Health and Human Rights","volume":"24 2","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/dc/bd/hhr-24-02-001.PMC9790944.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10454119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Business as Usual? Centering Human Rights to Advance Global COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Through COVAX.","authors":"Kaitlin Fajber","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This essay examines the extent to which COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) has been a successful mechanism for global COVID-19 vaccine equity as a component of the human right to health. First, I provide background on COVID-19 vaccine equity and COVAX as part of the Access to COVID-19 Tools ACT-Accelerator. Second, I situate access to COVID-19 vaccines within the context of human rights to exemplify how the international community intended COVAX to advance both health equity and the human right to health. Third, I assess how those intentions have played out in practice due to challenges of vaccine nationalism, lack of transparency, funding shortfalls, unreliable donations, inadequate civil society participation, and inequitable resource allocation. Fourth, I suggest how COVAX might function differently if human rights were centered within its purpose, strategy, and operations. Ultimately, I argue that COVAX is upholding a largely market-oriented approach to making essential medicines accessible and that COVAX would be a more effective mechanism for vaccine equity and global health if it were grounded in human rights.</p>","PeriodicalId":46953,"journal":{"name":"Health and Human Rights","volume":"24 2","pages":"219-228"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/7c/47/hhr-24-02-219.PMC9790946.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10454120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interrogating the Role of Human Rights in Remedying Global Inequities in Access to COVID-19 Vaccines.","authors":"Lisa Forman, Carlos Correa, Katrina Perehudoff","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46953,"journal":{"name":"Health and Human Rights","volume":"24 2","pages":"121-124"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9790943/pdf/hhr-24-02-121.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9180642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Amputating the Body, Fragmenting the Nation: Palestinian Amputees in Gaza.","authors":"Ghada Majadli, Hadas Ziv","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper, we seek to contextualize amputations sustained by Palestinians during the Great March of Return within a framework of settler-colonial ideology and practice. Utilizing case studies identified in our advocacy work at Physicians for Human Rights Israel, we evaluate the conditions in which these amputations occurred and their relationship to the politicized Palestinian body, land, and nation. Through evaluating themes of intentionality and subjugation, the politicized Palestinian body, and reflections on the challenges of navigating human rights and humanitarian possibilities, we reflect on our work and the ability to advocate for health justice in inherently violent and eliminatory bureaucratic and legal systems. We conclude with a discussion on the utility of a human rights approach that is divorced from a structural and historical analysis of the dire situation on the ground.</p>","PeriodicalId":46953,"journal":{"name":"Health and Human Rights","volume":"24 2","pages":"281-292"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/e3/63/hhr-24-02-281.PMC9790951.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10454124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cannabis, Coerced Care, and a Rights-Based Approach to Community Support.","authors":"Johannes Wheeldon, Jon Heidt","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46953,"journal":{"name":"Health and Human Rights","volume":"24 2","pages":"115-119"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9790941/pdf/hhr-24-02-115.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9180645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Call for Social Justice and for a Human Rights Approach with Regard to Mental Health in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.","authors":"Maria Helbich, Samah Jabr","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper examines the process of depoliticization of mental health in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) and links it to a critical analysis of post-traumatic stress disorder and the role of international humanitarian aid. It is based on a human rights framework that focuses on the right to health and that is instrumental in connecting human rights violations to demands of social justice. Efforts to weaken justice and reparations are analyzed by looking at the role of mental health professionals and assumptions of psychotherapy as a neutral and nonpolitical sphere. By drawing on models of decoloniality and liberation psychology, we advocate for a shift from a decontextualized and individualistic approach to mental health to acknowledging the structural, social, and political oppression that are the underlying factors for suffering in the oPt. In order to alleviate the social suffering of Palestinians and to prevent their victimization, interventions that acknowledge the political nature of mental health ill-being and promote a human rights approach are needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":46953,"journal":{"name":"Health and Human Rights","volume":"24 2","pages":"305-318"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/1c/b7/hhr-24-02-305.PMC9790960.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10820083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Access to Vaccines and New Zealand's Distinctive Response to COVID-19.","authors":"Paul Hunt, Sophie Bradwell-Pollak","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46953,"journal":{"name":"Health and Human Rights","volume":"24 2","pages":"215-218"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9790936/pdf/hhr-24-02-215.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9180643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Protecting Public Health through Technology Transfer: The Unfulfilled Promise of the TRIPS Agreement.","authors":"Ellen 't Hoen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46953,"journal":{"name":"Health and Human Rights","volume":"24 2","pages":"211-214"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/44/0c/hhr-24-02-211.PMC9790950.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9180648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}