When Misfortune Becomes: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality

Abstract

ABSTRACTAlicia Ely Yamin offers a journey through a half a century of struggle for the recognition and expansion of human rights in their social, economic and cultural dimensions, focusing on the right to health and, more specifically, on the sexual and reproductive health rights of women. This chronological journey examines laws and regulations, decision‐making forums and legal cases that have been milestones in the global history of human rights—events that the author selects from her vast direct knowledge and involvement.