Groningen Centre for Health Law

Please find the link at the bottom for the 2nd Call for papers for the U4 Conference Cluster Social Sciences, Economics and Law for 4- 6 November 2015, coordinated by Globalisation Studies Groningen (GSG) and Sustainable Society with the theme “Governance of Contemporary Multilateral Institutional Architecture”.

New course ‘International Health Law’ as part of LLM International Human Rights Law at University of Groningen

Check out this newly published article written by Myriam Feinberg, Laura Niada-Avshalom & Brigit Toebes.

On the 15th of June, SIB and IFMSA will organize an evening on the access to medicine crisis in developing countries and the ways the pharmaceutical industry is changing to cope with this problem.

On May 31st it is World No Tobacco Day. We would like to grasp this opportunity to launch GHLG’s Platform for Tobacco Control. Within the framework of this platform we will pay attention to the fight against smoking in the Netherlands and around the world.

Guest lecture by Mari Amos, OPCAT’s SPT Member – UN Convention Against Torture mechanisms

Most Dutch mothers go back to work after 16 weeks of paid maternity leave, as regulated in the Act on work and care (Wet arbeid en zorg). They carry their pump (or more often give up breastfeeding), they bring their baby to the nursery/’guestmother’ (or find other arrangements), and they try to focus on their work. It all sounds as if this is working well. But if we scratch beneath the surface, there is a lot of struggle going on in a mother’s psyche.

Our own member Lucía Berro Pizzarossa has been selected as a WomenDeliver Young Leader!

Brigit Toebes – ‘Take the fairly strong tobacco legislation. Many countries don’t have this. So what you see is that the tobacco industry is searching for new markets, developing and middle-income countries.

How do you actually apply the right to health on the ground? The Danish Institute for Human Rights is developing the AAAQ Toolbox – an innovative assessment tool that offers practical guidance for state, business and civil society actors.