Health Issues, Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide
The American Association for the Advancement of Science: The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) provides links to the Database of Human Rights Sites, with nearly 30 additional sites accessed via a search for "health".
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Amnesty International Health Professionals Network Online: Comprises individuals, groups and networks of doctors, nurses, mental health specialists and other health professionals in more than 30 countries.
Amnesty International Health Professionals Network Online
Berkeley Human Rights Center: The Human Rights Center conducts interdisciplinary research on emerging issues in international human rights and humanitarian law. The research focuses on war crimes, justice and postwar reconstruction, health and human rights and refugees.
Berkeley Human Rights Center
The Center for Economic and Social Rights: The Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) was establishe in 1993 to promote social justice through human rights. In a world where poverty and inequality deprive entire communities of dignity and even life itself, CESR promotes the universal right of every human being to housing, education, health and a healthy environment, food, work and an adequate standard of living.
Center for Economic and Social Rights
Daily Kos: EcoJustice: The best of grassroots in the Congo.
Doctors of the World: Doctors of the World mobilizes the health sector to promote and protect these and other basic human rights and civil liberties for all people, in the United States and abroad. In collaboration with a network of affiliates around the world and in partnership with local communities, they work where health is diminished or endangered by violations of human rights and civil liberties.
Doctors of the World
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian aid organisation that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in more than 70 countries.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
Grassroots Initiatives
The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights: The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights is the first academic center to focus exclusively on health and human rights. The Center combines the academic strengths of research and teaching with a strong commitment to service and policy development.
The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
Global Lawyers and Physicians: This group works towards the global implementation of the health-related provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights with a focus on health care ethics, patients' rights, medical research and human experimentation. The site includes some excellent links to groups working on health and human rights.
Global Lawyers and Physicians
Health Rights Connection: The Health Rights Connection is a service of Physicians for Human Rights-USA that provides information and reports from colleagues of PHR-USA. Colleague organizations include local groups with whom PHR-USA has partnered in various investigations worldwide, as well as members of the International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organization (IFHHRO) and members of the Consortium for Health and Human Rights.
Health Rights Connection
Health and Human Rights Info: Health and Human Rights Info aims at making practical information and materials on health and human rights more accessible. The focus is on the psychological and psychosocial aspects of health and human rights.
Health and Human Rights Info
International Society for Health and Human Rights: The aim of this website is to bring health colleagues a bit closer to each other and represent a forum where information and useful experiences can be presented and shared. International Society for Health and Human Rights (ISHHR) has members in almost countries- and hope that more colleagues may find these pages useful in their daily work with people who have suffered human rights violations and great losses in their lives.
International Society for Health and Human Rights
Physicians for Human Rights: Physicians for Human Rights is an organization of health professionals, scientists, and concerned citizens which uses the knowledge and skills of the medical and forensic sciences to investigate and prevent violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. Includes reports, current activities and links.
Physicians for Human Rights
Stephen Lewis Foundation
Women on the frontlines of the AIDS pandemic in Africa
Spotlight on Grassroots: African Institute: united Against Gender-based Violence
Twenty-Five Questions and Answers on Health and Human Rights (WHO): World Health Organization is actively engaged in increasing its understanding of human rights in relation to health; it is in this context that WHO has launched the Health and Human Rights Publication Series. It has chosen 25 Questions and Answers as the first in this series, suggesting answers to key questions which explore the linkages between different aspects of health and human rights.
Twenty-Five Questions and Answers on Health and Human Rights
World Health Organization (WHO): Health and Human Rights Health has been designated as a cross-cutting activity in WHO. Ethics, Trade, Human Rights and Law (ETH) within Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments (SDE) is the focal point within the Organization for human rights.
World Health Organization
The World Medical Association: The World Medical Association (WMA) is a global federation of National Medical Associations representing the millions of physicians worldwide. Acting on behalf of patients and physicians, the WMA endeavors to achieve the highest possible standards of medical care, ethics, education and health-related human rights for all people.
World Medical Association
