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Alicia Ely Yamin

Alicia Ely Yamin is a Lecturer on Law and the Director of the Global Health and Rights Project at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, an Adjunct Senior Lecturer on Health Policy and Management at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and a Visiting Professor of Law at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She also serves as Senior Advisor on Human Rights and Health Policy at Partners In Health.
POSTS BY Alicia Ely Yamin
06 February 2025
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A Dangerous Departure

Governments from Argentina to the United States to Hungary and beyond are engaging in concerted efforts to assail and undermine sexual and reproductive rights that have long been understood as gendered interpretations of fundamental rights under international law. In this context, the recent decision by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Beatriz v. El Salvador is a missed opportunity to consolidate the Court’s jurisprudence on sexual and reproductive health and rights and defend the legitimacy of international human rights law. Continue reading >>
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04 November 2021

Editorial: Can a Pandemic Law-Making Exercise Promote Global Health Justice?

Amid the unfolding „moral catastrophe“ of COVID-19, and across the entries in this symposium, we see a clamor for any pandemic law-making exercise to promote more justice in global health. However, this universally-embraced imperative masks a wide array of divergent views about the nature and sources of inequalities in global health, and in turn what should be done if we were to think beyond a narrow pragmatism of the moment. Continue reading >>
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04 November 2021

Webinar: Can a ‘Pandemic Treaty’ Promote Global Health Justice?

This final webinar of the 'International Pandemic Lawmaking: Conceptual and Practical Issues' Symposium will bring together leading scholars to critically discuss cross-cutting themes of the Symposium, and key points of contention and recommendation for the future of global pandemic governance. Continue reading >>
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