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Human Rights Dimensions of Health Security

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Rebecca J. Cook*
Affiliation:
International Human Rights, University of Toronto

Abstract

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Type
Human Security: Can It Be Attained?
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2003

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References

1 WHO Const, pmbl.

2 Rebecca J. Cook, Bernard M. Dickens & Mahmoud F. Fathalla, Reproductive Health and Human Rights: Integrating Medicine, Ethics and Law 256-59 (2003).

3 Id. at 109-19.

4 See Trial of Ulrich Greifelt and Others, in XIII Law Reports of the War Criminals 1 (UN War Crimes Commission ed., 1949).

5 Maria Momenta Mestanza Chávezv. Peru, Case 12.191, Decision on Admissibility, October 3, 2000, Friendly Settlement of October 14, 2002; see also Center for Reproductive Rights, Reproductive Rights in the Inter-American System for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, at 3 (Oct. 2002), available at <http://www.reproductiverights.org/pub_art_ias.html>.

6 Beyond Consent: Seeking Justice in Research 63 (Jeffrey P. Kahn et al. eds., 1998).

7 Id.

8 See Tavares v. France, App. No. 16593/90 (Eur. Ct. H.R. Dec. 9, 1991) (unpublished decision).

9 See Juan Pablo v. Chile, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R., OEA/ser.L/V/2.114, doc. 5 rev., Ch. IIIC1b (2001), available at <http://www.oas.org>.

10 Seijorge Dolir Miranda Cortez v. El Salvador, Case 12.249, Inter-Am. C.H.R. 29, OEA/Ser./L/V/II.111, doc. 20 rev., Ch. IIIC2 (2001), available at <http://www.oas.org>.

11 D. v. United Kingdom, App. No. 30240/96, 24 Eur. H.R. Rep. 423 (1997) (Court judgment).

12 Concluding Observation of the Human Rights Committee: Peru, UN Human Rights Committee, 58th Sess., para. 15, UN Doc. CCPR/C/79/Add. 72 (1996), available at <http://www.unhchr.ch>.

13 Case of Paulina Ramirez v. Mexico, in Center for Reproductive Rights, Reproductive Rights in the Inter-American System for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, at available at <http://www.reproductiverights.org/pub_art_ias.html> (Oct. 2002).

14 Loyaza Tamayo v. Peru, Ser. No. 42, Reparations (Inter-Am. C.H.R. Nov. 27,1998), available at <http://www.oas.org>.

15 See Substantive Issues Arising in the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: General Comment 14, CESCR, UN ESCOR, 22nd Sess., Agenda Item 3, para. 12. UN Doc. E/C 12/2000/4 (2000), available at <http://www.unhchr.ch> [hereinafter General Comment 14].

16 See Thlimmenos v. Greece, App. No. 34369/97, 31 Eur. H.R. Rep. 15 (2001) (Court judgment).

17 General Recommendation 24: Women and Health (Art. 12), CEDAW, UN GAOR 20th Sess., para. 11, 1999, UN Doc.A/54/38/Rev.1 (1999), available at <http://wwwl.umn.edu/humanrts/gencomm/generl24.htm>.

18 Kinney, Eleanor D., The International Human Right to Health: What Does This Mean for Our Nation and World?, 34 Ind. L. Rev. 1457, 1464-65 (2001)Google Scholar.

19 See Cook et al., supra note 1, at 187-94.

20 General Comment 14, supra note 15, para. 12(a).

21 M.C. v. Bulgaria, App. No. 39272/98 (Eur. Ct. H.R. Dec. 5, 2002) (finding case regarding inhuman Bulgarian rape laws admissible).

22 See Cook et al., supra note 1, at 173-75, 178-79 (discussing a line of decisions of the European Court of Human Rights that decriminalizes same-sex intimacy).

23 For an analysis of concluding observations of international treaty bodies regarding sexual and reproductive rights including child marriage, see Center for Reproductive Rights, Bringing Rights to Bear: An Analysis of the Work of UN Treaty Monitoring Bodieson Reproductive and Sexual Rights (2003), available at <http://www.reproductiverights.org/pub_bo_tmb.html>.

24 Human Rights Watch, Ignorance Only: HIV/AIDS, Human Rights and Federally Funded Abstinence-Only Programs in the United States (2002), available at <http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/usa0902/index.htm#topofpage>.

25 See Restoration of the Mexico City Policy, 66 Fed. Reg. 17,303 (Mar. 28, 2001).

26 Compare id. with Ctr. for Reprod. Law & Policy v. Bush, 304 F.3d 183 (2d Cir. 2002) (parenthetical).

27 See Cook, Rebecca J. & Dickens, Bernard M., Human Rights Dynamics of Abortion Law Reform, 25 Hum. Rts. Q. 159 (2003)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

28 Open Door Counseling Ltd. v. Ireland, App. Nos. 14234/88, 14253/88, 15 Eur. H.R. Rep. 244 (1992) (Court judgment).