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Proposed transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP)

Date:13 October 2015
Author:GHLG Blog
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a potential free trade agreement under negotiation between the EU and the US. In theory, the primary goals of the proposed agreement are to reform regulatory processes and promote economic growth.

Looking for a Masters thesis student for the multidisciplinary topic Access to medicines in Europe: A human rights approach to medicines reimbursement

Date:13 October 2015
Author:GHLG Blog
The Global Health Law Groningen Research Centre is accepting a Masters thesis student for the multidisciplinary topic Access to medicines in Europe: A human rights approach to medicines reimbursement.

Get research experience in access to medicines & human rights: GHLG is recruiting students for country case studies

Date:13 October 2015
Author:GHLG Blog
Get research experience in access to medicines & human rights: GHLG is recruiting students for country case studies

Looking for research student on human rights and climate change

Date:12 October 2015
Author:GHLG Blog
For our report to be submitted to the UN Office of the High Commission of Human Rights we are looking for one or more students to research references to climate change in concluding observations in Concluding Observations of UN treaty bodies.

GHLG Seminar Series: Challenges and Experiences in Domestic Implementation of the Right to Health

Date:12 October 2015
Author:GHLG Blog
Global Health Law Groningen is pleased to announce its next seminar.

Presentation at EAHL’s annual conference

Date:05 October 2015
Author:GHLG Blog
This year’s annual conference of the European Association of Health Law focused on cross-border healthcare. In principle, this measure (based on the Patients’ Rights Directive) makes it easier for European citizens to move across borders to seek (better) healthcare

A Human Rights Approach to Non-Communicable Diseases: Expert Meeting Report

Date:25 September 2015
Author:GHLG Blog
More than twenty international law and global health experts have adopted a consensus statement on responses to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) at the end of an expert meeting in The Hague on 22 September 2015.

Remedies for a breach of the right to health

Date:24 September 2015
Author:GHLG Blog
Obama’s healthcare reforms in the U.S. have gone down in history as one of the greatest political breakthroughs of the new millennium brought about by a President. He has repeatedly stated that healthcare is a right, not a privilege.

The Right to Health – An Empty Promise?

Date:17 September 2015
Author:GHLG Blog
Three perspectives presented at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg EFI Conference in Berlin, 14-16 September 2016

Conscientious Objection or Conscious Oppression?

Date:14 September 2015
Author:GHLG Blog
In October 2012, Uruguay passed Law 18,987 that waives criminal penalties for abortion in the first 12 weeks of gestation.