Newly launched free web research resource – the Global Health and Human Rights Database

On October 24, 2013, the Global Health and Human Rights Database (hereinafter GHHRD) was officially launched at the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium .  The GHHRD is produced by the Lawyers Collective, “a leading public interest law NGO in India focusing on strategic litigation and advocacy in HIV/AIDS and women’s rights, with offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore”, and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law.  Brian Citro, International Human Rights Clinic Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, was a GHHRD project manager.  You can watch the informative webcast Part 1 and Part 2.

Here is an excerpt from the press release:

“The [Global Health and Human Rights] Database is a fully searchable online database of more than 1000 judgments, constitutions and international instruments on the intersection between health and human rights.

The Database is the first attempt to comprehensively make available health and human rights law from both common and civil law jurisdictions, and features case law and other legal documents from more than 80 countries and in 25 languages. It also provides 500 plain-language summaries and 200 original translations of case law previously unavailable in English. The Database has been created in collaboration with more than 100 partners from civil society, academia, and legal practice worldwide.”