Groningen Centre for Health Law

Brigit Toebes - Several sources have reported attacks on healthcare facilities in Ukraine, including a children’s hospital, causing numerous deaths and injuries. [...] In this post I argue that such attacks constitute violations of human rights, international humanitarian law, and medical ethical standards.

Brigit Toebes - Het is daarom des te verwonderlijker dat het coalitieakkoord het voeren van een integraal volksgezondheidsbeleid niet tot haar absolute prioriteit heeft gemaakt.

Michael Woldeyes - As most African countries are State Parties to the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (hereafter ICESCR) and other human rights treaties, they are obliged under the right to health to step up efforts towards reducing RTAs by acting against corruption. This blogpost discusses how RTAs and corruption are issues of health law and what African countries are required to do to curb the problem.

David Patterson - Mosquitoes winging their way north across Europe bringing dengue. Floods and drownings. Heat stress. Despair. We are all aware of the health impacts of climate change. But how do we get governments to act?

Michael Woldeyes - It has been 15 years since the WHO researched khat and decided not to subject it for a treaty-based prohibition. However, several research on the mental and physical health effects of khat have been published within these fifteen years and as shown above, many countries have moved to ban the drug. So, is there a need for the WHO to reopen discussions on khat?

Jamie Behrendt - The third and the seventh United Nations Sustainable Development Goal aim to ensure good health as well as affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy by 2030. This will be challenging, as a large part of the population does not have access to energy, or only limited access based on dirty fuels. For instance, the World Bank estimates that globally, 2.3 billion people do not have access to clean cooking fuels.

Thom Geertsema - Momenteel is er de nodige commotie onder dierenartsen in Nederland en de rest van Europa over de toekomst van hun beroepsuitoefening. Dit klinkt heftig, en dat zou het in theorie ook kunnen zijn. Maar wat is er nu precies aan de hand?

Elisavet Athanasia Alexiadou - The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent responses to combat the spread of the virus generated considerable attention towards regulatory policies strategies on public health care governance in times of emergencies. 

Dean M. Harris - On 2 October 2020, India and South Africa submitted a request to the World Trade Organization to approve a temporary waiver of intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. 

Aikaterini Tsampi - The literature on tobacco control and human rights has evolved through time to pertinently demonstrate how the international human rights law machinery is a potent ally in the fight for tobacco control.