Groningen Centre for Health Law

Get research experience in access to medicines & human rights: GHLG is recruiting students for country case studies

For our report to be submitted to the UN Office of the High Commission of Human Rights we are looking for one or more students to research references to climate change in concluding observations in Concluding Observations of UN treaty bodies.

Global Health Law Groningen is pleased to announce its next seminar.

This year’s annual conference of the European Association of Health Law focused on cross-border healthcare. In principle, this measure (based on the Patients’ Rights Directive) makes it easier for European citizens to move across borders to seek (better) healthcare

More than twenty international law and global health experts have adopted a consensus statement on responses to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) at the end of an expert meeting in The Hague on 22 September 2015.

Obama’s healthcare reforms in the U.S. have gone down in history as one of the greatest political breakthroughs of the new millennium brought about by a President. He has repeatedly stated that healthcare is a right, not a privilege.

Three perspectives presented at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg EFI Conference in Berlin, 14-16 September 2016

In October 2012, Uruguay passed Law 18,987 that waives criminal penalties for abortion in the first 12 weeks of gestation.

On September 4th, our pilot results from the Essential Laws for Medicines Accessproject were presented at the workshop ‘International Law and Domestic Law Making Process’ at the University of Basel.

On 15 June 2015, the member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) approved the Inter-American Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons during the General Assembly of the institution.