scholarly journals The Impact of the Criminalization of HIV Non-Disclosure on the Health and Human Rights of “Black” Communities

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ciann Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Health And Human Rights ◽  
Black Canadian ◽  
African Caribbean ◽  
Disclosure Laws ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Criminalization Of Hiv ◽  
Hiv Aids

The criminalization of HIV non-disclosure has become a hot topic for discussion and debate amongst human rights advocates, HIV/AIDS service providers, and people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. This paper explores the inherent problems with HIV non-disclosure laws. These laws are ambiguous and pose a serious threat to public health policy and programming by obstructing the fundamental human rights of people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Using a human rights framework, this paper explores the impact of non-disclosure laws on the health and rights of African, Caribbean, and Black-Canadian communities and proposes ways to address the shortcomings of HIV non-disclosure laws and inadequate social policies.

s.Two Implementation and Accountability, 8 Justiciability of Human Rights for Health

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flood Colleen M ◽  
Thomas Bryan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Health And Human Rights ◽  
Proper Role ◽  
Health Related ◽  
State Obligations ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines both the power and limitations of litigation as a means of facilitating accountability for the advancement of public health. While almost half of the world’s constitutions now contain a justiciable right to health, the impact of litigation has been mixed. Judicial accountability has, in some cases, advanced state obligations to realize the highest attainable standard of health, but in other cases, litigation has threatened the solidarity undergirding public health systems. There is significant country-to-country variation in interpreting health-related human rights, as well as differing views of the proper role of courts in interpreting and enforcing these rights. Surveying regional human rights systems and national judicial efforts to address health and human rights, it is necessary to analyze how courts have approached—and how they should approach—litigation of the right to health and health-related human rights to improve health for all.

Brief Note: Health and human rights of children affected by HIV/AIDS in urban Boston and rural Uganda

2009 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-545
Author(s):  
Timothy P. Williams ◽  
Martha Vibbert ◽  
Laura Mitchell ◽  
Rosette Serwanga
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Health And Human Rights ◽  
Hiv Aids

The Civic Role of OSPs in Mature Information Societies

2020 ◽  
pp. 121-137
Author(s):  
Mariarosaria Taddeo
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Communication Law ◽  
Intermediary Liability ◽  
The Impact

Over the years, the discussion concerning the responsibilities of online service providers (OSPs) has gone from defining measures that OSPs should deploy to correct their market bias and ensure a pluralistic web, to the impact that OSPs have on the internet, on the flourishing of democratic values, and on societies at large. The debate spans different fields, from information and computer ethics, corporate social responsibilities, and business ethics, to computer-mediated communication, law, and public policy. Topics of analyses range from biases and skewing of information indexed by search engines, the protection of users’ privacy and security, to the impact of OSPs on democratic processes, and their duties with respect to human rights. This chapter investigates the ethical implications of intermediary liability. First, it describes the debate on the moral responsibilities of OSPs with respect to managing access to information and human rights. It then analyses the role and the nature of the responsibilities of OSPs in mature information societies. The chapter concludes its review by applying Floridi’s soft ethics to consider what responsibilities the civic role of OSPs entails and how they should discharge them.

Diane K. Lewis and the Transformation of Anthropology

2018 ◽  
pp. 37-51
Author(s):  
Cheryl R. Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Predominantly White ◽  
Predominantly White Institutions ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
White Institutions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Hiv Aids ◽  
Intellectual Activism ◽  
Policies And Practices

This chapter explores Diane Lewis’s professional life as a courageous, self-determined intellectual activist. She studied anthropology at predominantly white institutions during the years when America’s apartheid policies and practices were firmly in place. Undaunted by the explicit racism and sexism of her time, Diane K. Lewis earned a PhD from Cornell University in 1962. Her experiences with blatant discrimination inspired a fiery intellectual activism. Although critical of anthropology’s colonial influences, Lewis believed the discipline could be transformed through activist engagement by insider or native scholars. Her most influential work addressed the intersection of race, gender, and class and the impact of HIV/AIDS on black communities.

scholarly journals Health and human rights in todayʼs fight against HIV/AIDS

AIDS ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (Suppl 2) ◽  
pp. S105-S111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara Stemple
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Health And Human Rights ◽  
Hiv Aids

Introductory Remarks: Overview of General Research Trends and Topical Focus for 2020: Researching Human Rights and Artificial Intelligence

2020 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 239-240
Author(s):  
Marylin Johnson Raisch
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Peace Movement ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Political Methodology ◽  
Health And Human Rights ◽  
Drone Strikes ◽  
Mixed Messages ◽  
The Impact

There are many current threads in human rights research today; some are extensions of more traditional concerns, and others call upon the application of human rights law as a part of international law that is evoked by recent and changing realities. There is, first, a historical turn in international law that is relevant to human rights even though it is more traditional for legal scholarship to look at such sources. Recently, Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) and discoveries about the role of the women's peace movement (as women endured and challenged the mixed messages about their roles at the time of the founding of the League of Nations) are new perspectives in that they were previously set aside, as were indigenous people's perspectives. Historian Reza Afshari and others have spoken to the focus on structural transformation and lived realities as a more political methodology for human rights, going beyond discourse and its possible Western biases. Third, environmental research has emerged in a new way, using empirical data and big data to track the impact on health and human rights; included here may be the current situation of the COVID-19 pandemic. There are also new developments in the law of war, such as drone strikes, which take us toward automated war. The automation of human functions and judgments takes us, finally, to this panel's focus on human rights research: artificial intelligence, or AI. There may arise a theory of agency implicating those who create or operate AI outside a war context, or even within it as alleged war crimes.

scholarly journals “It’s Not Just about Work and Living Conditions”: The Underestimation of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Black Canadian Women

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 210
Author(s):  
Melanie Knight ◽  
Renée Nichole Ferguson ◽  
Rai Reece
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
Black Experience ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Black Canadian ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic has increasingly been defined as the shecession for its disproportionate debilitating impact on women. Despite this gendered analysis, a number of health activists have called on governments to account for the experiences of Black communities as they are disproportionately suffering the effects of this pandemic. In the media’s address of the impact of the pandemic, we ask, what experiences are represented in news stories and are Black women present in these representations. Performing a content analysis of 108 news articles, a reading of media discourses through a racial lens reveals a homogenization of women’s experiences and an absence of the Black experience. In the small number of news stories that do focus on Black women, we see that the health disparities are not simply the result of precarious work and living conditions, but also the struggle against anti-Black racism on multiple fronts. In critiquing, however, we also bring forth the small number of news stories on the Black experience that speak to the desire and hope that can thrive outside of white supremacist structures.

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