Alicia Ely Yamin
Alicia Ely Yamin is a lecturer on Law and senior fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School and senior advisor on Human Rights and Health Policy with Partners In Health.
Alicia Ely Yamin este consilier principal în drepturile omului în organizația “Partners in Health”, și consilier principal în cadrul Centrului “Petrie-Flom” pentru Politica Legii în Domeniul Sănătății, Biotehnologie si Bioetică de la Facultatea de Drept a Universității Harvard.
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Reflections on Paul Farmer’s legacy: a clarion call for transformative human rights praxis in global health
"Paul treated each individual as if they contained the whole world within them."
Against nihilism: transformative human rights praxis for the future of global health
By: Alicia Ely Yamin & Paul Farmer
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If we recognize that global health has colonial origins, we must also acknowledge that it remains deeply embedded in, and shaped by, interlocking systems of power.
Post-pandemic collective action for health rights and social justice is essential
By: Alicia Ely Yamin
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The pandemic shows the need for post-crisis collective action, and rising to the task will be essential if we are to realize a new global economic order—with human ...
Putting human rights at the centre of struggles for health and social equality
We’ve made progress on economic and social rights, but the human rights community needs new, much more collaborative strategies to challenge the inequalities underlying ...
Silencing the drama - Do the SDG indicators expose the injustices that limit women’s sexual and reproductive lives?
The SDGs are a step forward for women’s equality and sexual and reproductive rights, but the indicators used to measure progress may prove problematic for rights ...
The right to design babies? Human rights and bioethics
By: Roberto Andorno & Alicia Ely Yamin
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New developments in gene modifications make it more urgent than ever to raise societal awareness, and adopt appropriate measures to enforce existing international ...
Caliban Unleashed: What role for strategic litigation in an illiberal era?
There are inherent limitations in litigating health rights, but it has led to important victories, and must remain a key strategy as populism surges.
“Speaking truth to power:” a call for praxis in human rights
By: Alicia Ely Yamin
Human rights require struggles over power and systems of thought—not just fights against individual violators and institutional inequities.
Ebola, human rights, and poverty – making the links
By: Alicia Ely Yamin
The Ebola crisis shows the necessity of a human rights approach to public health that focuses on discrimination and accountability, and the crisis itself has been ...
Human rights and social justice: the in(di)visible link
By: Ignacio Saiz & Alicia Ely Yamin
The distinction that Aryeh Neier draws between human rights and social justice is premised on a limited notion of what constitutes “power”, argue Ignacio Saiz and ...