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The OSI Law and Health Initiative (LAHI) was established in 2005 to support legal strategies to advance public health goals worldwide. LAHI works with the Soros Foundations Network and with OSI’s HIV/AIDS, harm reduction, palliative care, Roma health, and sexual health programs to promote accountability in health policy and the health and human rights of society’s most marginalized persons.

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Cops violate rights of wife…

20.08.10 - The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on Friday criticized elements of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) of the Philippine National Police (PNP) for allegedly violating the rights of “Ana”…

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22 disability protestors arrested outside…

19.08.10 - Twenty-two people, many of them severely disabled, were arrested at a protest outside the Capitol building on Wednesday afternoon. 

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Upcoming Events

8-10 July 2010, Aghveran

Training on “Using the European Convention for Human…

The OSIAFA, the IR, the HRGGP and the LAHI have the pleasure to invite human rights lawyers from Armenia to apply for participation in a three-day training session on safeguarding patients’ rights, to be held in Aghveran,…

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8-12 August, 2010, Zagreb

World Congress on Medical Law

From the four corners of the earth we will make our bi-annual pilgrimage to Croatia, to the beautiful city of Zagreb, impelled by our reverence for, and devotion to the services of Medical Law, Health Law, Biolexology, Ethics…

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July 18-23, 2003

The International AIDS Conference 2010

The International AIDS Conference is the premier gathering for those working in the field of HIV, as well as policy makers, persons living with HIV and other individuals committed to ending the pandemic.

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Health and Law Resources
 

Laws and Health


World Medical Association Resolution on the Economic Crisis: Implications for Health was adopted by the WMA General Assembly, Seoul, Korea, October 2008.

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Discrimination is any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, color, sex, language, religion, opinion, descent, or national or ethnic origin which discourages or prevents equal recognition, enjoyment or exercise of human rights and…

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19.08.10 - India has said that it will not compromise on issues related to health and people’s right to medicine in the bilateral trade and investment agreement being negotiated with the European Union. 

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