National security and public health: exceptions to human rights?
Date:30 June 2015Author:GHLG Blog
Check out this newly published article written by Myriam Feinberg, Laura Niada-Avshalom & Brigit Toebes.
Event – The Access to Medicine Crisis: Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Date:05 June 2015Author:GHLG Blog
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.
New platform for tobacco control
Date:30 May 2015Author:GHLG Blog
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 – UN Convention Against Torture mechanisms
Date:20 May 2015Author:GHLG Blog
Guest lecture by Mari Amos, OPCAT’s SPT Member – UN Convention Against Torture mechanisms
Maternity leave: in the best interest of children, their mothers, and society at large
Date:18 May 2015Author:GHLG Blog
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.
Congratulations to our member Lucía Berro Pizzarossa!!!
Date:08 May 2015Author:GHLG Blog
Our own member Lucía Berro Pizzarossa has been selected as a WomenDeliver Young Leader!
Health legislation in developing countries must be improved
Date:08 May 2015Author:GHLG Blog
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.
Third event GHLG: Health and human rights on the ground
Date:04 May 2015Author:GHLG Blog
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.
Newspaper article on the reception of undocumented migrants (in Dutch)
Date:30 April 2015Author:GHLG Blog
Veronika Flegar and Brigit Toebes recently published an opinion piece on the current debate around minimum reception facilities for rejected asylum seekers and undocumented migrants in the two Dutch newspapers Dagblad van het Noorden and Leeuwarder Courant.
“Illegal immigrants” have basic social rights – or do they not?
Date:16 April 2015Author:GHLG Blog
A couple of months have passed since the CEC v the Netherlands ruling of the European Social Committee (ESC) on 10 November 2014 but the Netherlands is still hesitant to take steps to ensure basic social rights of undocumented migrants.