You’re invited to the Global Health and Human Rights Database’s official launch!

Posted by the Global Health and Human Rights Database team on September 24, 2013

We’re very excited to announce that the Global Health and Human Rights Database will be formally launching to the public alongside the 68th session of the UN General Assembly. Join us  at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on the afternoon of Thursday 24 October for a stimulating discussion on the database’s potential contribution to the  development of the health and human rights movement.

Please note that while the event is open to the public, RSVPs will be essential due to security requirements at UN Headquarters. Please RSVP with your name and affiliation to contact@globalhealthrights.org by Monday, 14 October 2013 should you wish to attend.

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Join us for the formal launch of the Global Health and Human Rights Database
during the 68th session of the UN General Assembly.

Thursday, 24 October 2013
3:00 PM – 6:00 PM

UN Headquarters in New York
Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium

Light refreshments will be provided

RSVP with name and affiliation to contact@globalhealthrights.org by Monday, October 14, 2013.
*Please note that RSVPs are required due to security procedures at UN Headquarters*

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Joseph Amon
Human Rights Watch

Ana Ayala
O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law

Brian Citro
University of Chicago Law School

Jonathan Cohen
Open Society Foundations

Anand Grover
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

Benjamin Mason Meier
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Terry McGovern
Columbia University

Nadia Rasheed
United Nations Development Programme

Suzanne Zhou
Lawyers Collective


The Global Health and Human Rights Database (www.globalhealthrights.org) is a free online database of case law, constitutions, and international and regional instruments in health and human rights, jointly managed by Lawyers Collective, a public interest law NGO based in New Delhi and Mumbai, India, and the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.