The Neglected North Korean Crisis: Women's Rights

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-29
Author(s):  
Sea Young Kim ◽  
Leif-Eric Easley
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Market Power ◽  
Korean Women ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
International Assistance ◽  
The World ◽  
Border Crossers

AbstractNorth Korea references gender equality in its socialist constitution, but the de facto social and legal circumstances that women face in the country are far below the de jure status they are purported to enjoy. North Korean women endure extremely low public health standards and pervasive harassment. Yet their growing market power and social influence are underestimated. Women account for the majority of North Korean border crossers, and their informal economic activities are supporting families while modernizing the economy. This essay examines the dangers of exploitation that North Korean women face and highlights the ethical and legal imperatives of supporting their roles in marketizing the economy and liberalizing the society in one of the worst human rights–violating states. Women are North Korea's most deserving recipients of international assistance and the country's most promising partners to the world.

s.Four New Challenges, 16 International Trade, Public Health, and Human Rights

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wu Chuang-Feng ◽  
Wu Chien-Huei
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
International Trade ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Health And Human Rights ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Related ◽  
New Challenges

This chapter explores how to navigate health-related human rights in the trade and public health complex by tracing the intersection of international trade and public health and examining the role of international trade in global health law. An intrinsic tension exists between international trade, public health, and human rights in this globalizing world. Even though growing global interconnectedness has generated economic growth and information sharing, it is also characterized by threats—to access to medicine, commercialization of health care, and widening health inequality. Although this tension was well recognized in the development of the World Trade Organization, it has become much more complicated in recent decades. By addressing critical questions surrounding trade and public health, examining the transformation of risks into opportunities through global efforts, it will be possible to investigate possible venues to resolve trade and public health tensions in light of human rights.

The Integration of Health and Human Rights: An Appreciation of Jonathan M. Mann

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSEPH C. d'ORONZIO
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Health And Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Movement ◽  
The World

Jonathan Mann was a pioneer in establishing communication between the world of public health and that of human rights activism. At the very start, he strongly believed that although each of these two fields was in the midst of separate paradigm shifts, these shifts are essential, perhaps causal, to the combined health and human rights movement.

scholarly journals Shaming and Stigmatizing Healthcare Workers in Japan During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy S Jecker ◽  
Shizuko Takahashi
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Health Officials ◽  
Cultural Forces ◽  
Rights Issues

Abstract Stigmatization and sharming of healthcare workers in Japan during the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic reveal uniquely Japanese features. Seken, usually translated as ‘social appearance or appearance in the eyes of others,’ is a deep undercurrent woven into the fabric of Japanese life. It has led to providers who become ill with the SARS-CoV-2 virus feeling ashamed, while concealing their conditions from coworkers and public health officials. It also has led to healthcare providers being perceived as polluted and their children being told they were not welcome in schools. Although such experiences are not isolated to Japan and have appeared in other parts of the world, the cultural forces driving them in Japan are unique. Overcoming stigmatization and shaming of Japanese healthcare providers will require concerted efforts to understand cultural barriers and to view such practices as raising human rights issues affecting the safety and well-being of all.

When Terrorism Threatens Health: How Far are Limitations on Human Rights Justified

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 524-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence O. Gostin
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
Infectious Agents ◽  
The World ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Anthrax Spores ◽  
Trade Center

A single defining question perennially intrigues scholars and practitioners interested in public heath: To what extent should human rights be limited to protect the community’s health and safety? The question achieved prominence in the aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11, 2001 and with the intentional dispersal of anthrax spores through the U.S. Postal Systein. The conflict between security and public health intensified with the development of the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (“Model Act”), drafted by the Center for Law and the Public’s Health at the request of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Model Act grants states consiclernble powers to control persons and property in response to a public health emergency, defined to inclucle bioterrorism or the appearance of novel or previously controlled or eradicated infectious agents or biological toxins.

scholarly journals MULHER E O DIREITO AO PRÓPRIO CORPO: A TUTELA DO ABORTO

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Érika Do Amaral Véras ◽  
Romulo Rhemo Palitot Braga
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Current Position ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right ◽  
Over Time

No Brasil, assim como em diversos países do mundo, principalmente os países em desenvolvimento, o abortamento representa um grave problema de saúde pública, justiça social e direitos humanos, tornando o aspecto penal apenas um detalhe. Este estudo pretende conceder uma visão geral sob a temática do aborto, trazendo as principais mudanças sobre o assunto ao longo do tempo e, em especial, o atual posicionamento do Poder Judiciário brasileiro. Para tanto, o método de abordagem escolhido para elaboração do presente artigo foi o dedutivo, o método de procedimento foi o histórico e a técnica de pesquisa a bibliográfica.  WOMAN AND THE RIGHT TO THE OWN BODY: THE GUARDIANSHIP OF ABORTIONABSTRACT In Brazil, as well as in several countries of the world, especially developing countries, abortion represents a serious problem of public health, social justice and human rights, making the criminal aspect only a detail. This study intends to give an overview on abortion, bringing the main changes on the subject over time and, in particular, the current position of the Brazilian Judiciary. For this, the method of approach chosen for the elaboration of the present article was the deductive, the method of procedure was the historical and the research technique the bibliographic. KEYWORDS Abortion; Crime; Right.

scholarly journals HIV/AIDS and its monsters. Negotiating criminalisation along the monster–human continuum

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942110179
Author(s):  
Agata Dziuban ◽  
Friederike Faust ◽  
Todd Sekuler ◽  
Justyna Struzik ◽  
Lina Bonde ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Moral Economy ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
European Region ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The World

We use the concept of the ‘monster’ in this article as an analytical tool to grasp a variety of persons who – understood to be criminals in their countries of residence, and living with or thought to be particularly vulnerable to HIV – are perceived as threats from across the European region. Building on the field of monster studies, we focus here on strategies undertaken to shift the ‘monstrous’ towards the ‘human’ along what we describe as monster–human continuums. Relying on ethnographic fieldwork from Germany, Poland and Greece, four case studies examine processes of (re-)humanisation in the fields of migration, prisons, drug use and sex work that emerge at the intersections of humanitarianism, public health, human rights and citizenship. In particular, we propose that these strategies can entail the production of dissimilar forms of political subjectivity, the redistribution of responsibility or vulnerability and a reshuffling of blame within the moral economy of innocence and guilt – strategies that produce particular norms and forms of the human. These strategies, moreover, involve the normalisation or suppression of ‘abnormal’, ‘irrational’ or ‘guilty’ dimensions of criminalised subjects, thereby taming their capacity to confuse or confront societies’ worldviews, and ultimately foreclosing the possibility to imagine a being-in-the-world otherwise. We thus conclude by asking how embracing the monstrous might facilitate the navigation of cultural, social and moral anxieties that leave room for complex and conflicting practices and subjectivities.

International Trade, Public Health, and Human Rights

2020 ◽  
pp. 351-372
Author(s):  
Chuang-Feng Wu ◽  
Chien-Huei Wu
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
International Trade ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Health And Human Rights ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Related

This chapter explores how to navigate health-related human rights in the trade and public health complex by tracing the intersection of international trade and public health and examining the role of international trade in global health law. An intrinsic tension exists between international trade, public health, and human rights in this globalizing world. Even though growing global interconnectedness has generated economic growth and information sharing, it is also characterized by threats—to access to medicine, commercialization of health care, and widening health inequality. Although this tension was well recognized in the development of the World Trade Organization, it has become much more complicated in recent decades. By addressing critical questions surrounding trade and public health, examining the transformation of risks into opportunities through global efforts, it will be possible to investigate possible venues to resolve trade and public health tensions in light of human rights.

scholarly journals Tantangan Budaya dalam Mewujudkan Kesetaraan Gender di India dan Solusinya

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 142
Author(s):  
Agneta Kristalia Tedjo ◽  
Mohammad Daffa Ramadhan ◽  
Muhammad Daffa Dirgantara ◽  
Raden Arief Meivio Bahari
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Educational Inequality ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
Good Environment

Gender equality has become a topic that people discuss about a lot over the last few years. A condition where women and men should have equal position on every aspect of life is indeed should be realized in everywhere part of the world, including India. Therefore, this article will discuss an overview of the condition of gender equality in India and how the situation of women there. India was named by the Tom Reuters Foundation as the 4th most dangerous country in the world. One of the many factors why this is happen because of the existence of cultural traditions that have deeply rooted for generations. Because of that, it is necessary to discuss further the importance of gender equality in India. It will be explained about the solution of the culture that have deeply rooted in India, especially the culture that bring harm to women. Education is one aspect that is used to reduce any discrimination that is exist in India. The main goal of India in education is to overcome high illiteracy rate and also educational inequality for women. It will also be discussed, what are the roles of outsiders involved in the realization of gender equality in India. How conventions such as the Convention on Elimination of the All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) also play a role in helping India achieve gender equality and fulfillment of human rights, especially for women. . As well as how the role of the Indian government to create a good environment for women.

scholarly journals Human Rights, Freedoms and the Limits of Their Limitation in a Time of Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-121
Author(s):  
Karin Vrtikova
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Legislative Power ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Democratic Rights

There can be no doubt that the coronavirus pandemic has had an impact on all countries and regions all over the world, as well as on all aspects of human life. In a crisis situation of such a type, not only human health is endangered, but also civil and democratic rights are restr executive or legislative power, which may restrict human rights excessively or by sures, the interference with human rights may be suppressed. Although both international law and national legal systems allow restriction of these rights to certain extent with the aim to protect public health, many regimes abuse the pandemic to obscure their systematic restrictions going beyond the frame of the current situation. The aim of the presented article is to provide a factual view of the current situation in our territory, which in our opinion is not legally and socially sustainable in the long time. We will legally substantiate our views and express them as we see fit, based on the principles of democratic establishment of our society.

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