Global Health and Human Rights Law Database

In collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the Lawyers Collective, the O’Neill Institute is developing a searchable database that maps the intersection of health and human rights in judgments, international and regional instruments, and national constitutions. The database categorizes cases by human rights, health topics, and regional scope, providing a comprehensive means of understanding health and human rights law. The database will provide access to academics and practitioners across the world to existing international and domestic instruments and case law on the right to health and other health-related rights. The database intends to serve as a basis for analogous legal reasoning across countries to be used as precedents for future cases, for comparative legal analysis of similar health claims in different country contexts, and for empirical research to clarify the impact of human rights judgments on public health outcomes.

The Database will be publicly launched in the summer of 2012. Once launched, the Database will become available at www.ghhrdb.org and will be part of the O’Neill Institute’s website, as well as our partners’ websites. For more information on the development of the Database, please refer to Bridging international law and rights-based litigation: Mapping health-related rights through the development of the Global Health and Human Rights Database, an article published in the Health and Human Rights Journal.