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FULL-TEXT REPORT
Russia: Mothers With HIV and Their Children Face Stigma and Discrimination
 Human Rights Watch 
July 15, 2005
 Paper
 
FULL-TEXT REPORT
 Dominican Republic: Women with HIV Doubly Abused  
 Human Rights Watch July 13, 2004
 Paper

FULL-TEXT REPORT
Policy Paralysis:  A Call for Action on HIV/AIDS-Related Human Rights Abuses Against
Women and Girls in Africa
Human Rights Watch 
December 01, 2003
Paper

        Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
"How Would That Help Our Work?": The Intersection of Domestic Violence and Human Rights
 in the United States. 
Morgaine K. 
Violence Against Women. 2009 Oct 22
 Abstract
 
Reframing Violence Against Women as a Human Rights Violation:Evan Stark's Coercive Control.
Libal K, Parekh S.
Violence Against Women. 2009 Oct 15
 Abstract

Building International Research Partnerships to Develop HIV Programs for Women of Color in the
Context of Social Inequalities and Human Rights.
Sanders-Phillips K, Pretorius L, Reddy P.
Soc Work Public Health. 2009 Jan;24(1):60-75
Abstract|
 
FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
 Access To Essential Maternal Health Interventions and Human Rights Violations
among Vulnerable Communities in Eastern Burma.
Mullany LC, Lee CI, Yone L, Paw P,  et al
PLoS Med. 2008 Dec 23;5(12):e242.
 Paper
 
Human rights abuses and concerns about women's health and human rights in southern Iraq.
Amowitz LL, Kim G, Reis C, et al.   
JAMA. 2004 Mar 24;291(12):1471-9.
 Abstract

The HIV/AIDS pandemic: African women at the heart of the control program or the difficulties
with regard to gender.
Moulin B, Louis JP
Med Trop (Mars) 1999;59(4 Pt 2):465-7
Abstract

Human Rights Approaches to an Expanded Response to Address Women's Vulnerability
to HIV/AIDS.
Whelan D
Health Hum Rights 1998;3(1):20-36
Abstract
 

 		 
     Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
  Sexual Violence and International Human Rights: Experiences of Human Rights Watch
A Heimburger
(135 APHA)
 Abstract
Children
       

     Internet Documents
 
  FULL-TEXT DOCUMENT
 Paying the Price: Violations of the Rights of Children in Detention in Burundi
Human Rights Watch March 15, 2007
Internet Document
 
FULL-TEXT DOCUMENT
 Russia: Mothers With HIV and Their Children Face Stigma and Discrimination
 Human Rights Watch  July 15, 2005
 Internet Document

FULL-TEXT DOCUMENT
 India: AIDS Fueled by Abuses Against Children
 Human Rights Watch July 29 2004
 Internet Document

     Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
Why children's rights are central to international child health.
 Waterston T, Goldhagen J.
Arch Dis Child. 2007 Feb;92(2):176-80.
 Abstract 
 
Pediatricians and the Rights of the Child. UN Convention provides blueprint for monitoring
the well-being of children worldwide.
 Kasper J.  Pediatr Ann. 2004 Oct;33(10):712-5.
 Abstract 

Child labor. A matter of health and human rights.
Mathews R, Reis C, Iacopino V.
J Ambul Care Manage 2003 Apr-Jun;26(2):181-2
 Abstract 

What is the system of care for abused and neglected children in children's institutions?
Tien I, Bauchner H, Reece RM.
Pediatrics 2002 Dec;110(6):1226-31
 Abstract 

Working to improve mental health services: the North Carolina
advocacy effort.
 Foy JM, Earls MF, Horowitz DA.
 Pediatrics 2002 Dec;110(6):1232-7
 Abstract 

Ethics and children's rights: learning from past mistakes.
Charles-Edwards I, Glasper EA.
Br J Nurs 2002 Sep 26-Oct 9;11(17):1132-40
 Abstract 
 
Children's rights: a decade of dispute.
Lowden J.
J Adv Nurs 2002 Jan;37(1):100-7
Abstract 
 
Children Confronting HIV/AIDS: Charting the Confluence of Rights and Health.
Tarantola D, Gruskin S
Health Hum Rights 1998;3(1):60-86
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     Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters

  35th Session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
January 2004
 Report
Injection Drug Users
       

    Internet Reports
 
FULL-TEXT REPORT
 Human Rights Abuses and HIV/AIDS in the Russian Federation
 Human Rights Watch April 2004   
Paper
 
FULL-TEXT REPORT
 Thailand: Grant to Fight HIV Faces Human Rights Test
 Human Rights Watch October 31, 2003
 Paper
 
FULL-TEXT REPORT
Vancouver Authorities Downplay  Human Rights Abuses in Anti-Drug Crackdown
Human Rights Watch June 23, 2003
 Paper

FULL-TEXT PDF REPORT
 Vancouver Police Persecuting Drug Users. Anti-drug Crackdown May Worsen North
America’s Worst AIDS Epidemic
Human Rights Watch
 Paper
 
       Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
Protecting the unprotected: mixed-method research on drug use, sex work and rights in Pakistan's
fight against HIV/AIDS.
Mayhew S, Collumbien M, Qureshi A, et al 
Sex Transm Infect. 2009 Apr;85 Suppl 2:ii31-6.
Abstract

FULL-TEXT PDF ARTICLE
 Health and Human Rights Concerns of Drug Users in Detention in Guangxi Province, China
Cohen JE, Amon JJ.
PLoS Med. 2008 Dec 9;5(12):e234.
Paper
 

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
 The Disconnect between China's Public Health and Public Security Responses to Injection Drug Use,
and the Consequences for Human Rights
Koester S PLoS Med. 2008 Dec 9;5(12):e240
Paper

     Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters

  POWERPOINT POSTER PRESENTATION
In the name of health: addiction treatment, HIV prevention, and human rights
D Wolfe
(XVII International AIDS Conference)
Poster Presentation
Gay/Lesbians/Bisexuals
MSM      

    Internet Reports

 
FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Threat to Return Gay and Lesbian Iranians :
Human Fights Watch
March 2995
 Report

FULL-TEXT DOCUMENT
Sierra Leone: Lesbian Rights Activist Brutally Murdered
Human Rights Watch,
October 01, 2004
 Report
Sexworkers
       

    Internet Reports

  FULL-TEXT DOCUMENT
 Sex Work, HIV/AIDS and Human Rights in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia,
Central and Eastern European Harm  Reduction Network
December 12, 2005
 Report

   Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
Protecting the unprotected: mixed-method research on drug use, sex work and rights in Pakistan's
fight against HIV/AIDS.
Mayhew S, Collumbien M, Qureshi A, et al 
Sex Transm Infect. 2009 Apr;85 Suppl 2:ii31-6.
Abstract
 
Women trafficked into prostitution: determinants, human rights and health needs.
Gajic-Veljanoski O, Stewart DE.  
Transcult Psychiatry. 2007 Sep;44(3):338-58.
 Abstract

Shan women and girls and the sex industry in Southeast Asia; political causes and
human rights implications.
Beyrer C,
Soc Sci Med 2001 Aug;53(4):543-50
Abstract
 
     Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
 
Paths to empowerment: A review of female sex work organizations in the promotion of civil liberties
and sexual health 
C Choudhury-Southard
(136 APHA)
 Abstract

POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
 Sex Work and Human Rights
E Reynaga, AL Crago 
(XVII International AIDS Conference)
 Poster Presentation
Mentally Ill
       

     Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Addressing the ethical, legal, and social issues raised by voting by persons with dementia.
Karlawish JH, Bonnie RJ, Appelbaum PS, et al
JAMA. 2004 Sep 15;292(11):1345-50.
Abstract

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