Health

INHR has been at the forefront of reinforcing links between health and human rights, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.  When freedoms of expression, press and association are trampled we have seen an accelerated spread of COVID, SARS, Ebola, Avian flu and HIV, among others.   

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Under a grant from the PAX sapiens foundation, INHR has led an international dialogue to get experts in policy, prevention and law enforcement to work together with the public and private sectors to combat the spread of chemical precursors from Asia to Mexico and ultimately into the United States.

One of INHR's directors introduced to the UN Human Rights Council the idea of protection of medical workers as a human rights concept.  Thanks to this advocacy, the humanitarian principle that attacks on medical workers for providing care to dissidents or members of political opposition groups is a serious violation is now gaining traction in human rights law.

We advocate for the rights of women and girls in health care at the Human Rights Council, the World Health Assembly and with other specialized health agencies in Geneva and New York. For example, we took the Trump Administration to task for undercutting health aid on reproductive rights as part of the 2019 Universal Periodic Review of the US at the Human Rights Council. 

  We support partners who help articulate international norms in the World Health Assembly and HRC. This work supports the International health regulations and a possible pandemic treaty, as well as work to combat discrimination against those living with Ebola, HIV, leprosy, and Albinism.