Legal remedies

Monday, September 23, 2013 - 18:10 in Psychology & Sociology

In 2010, Kenya approved a new constitution that guaranteed citizens the right to health care and basic necessities: housing, food, and water. Now comes the hard part: delivering. Catherine Mumma, a Kenyan attorney working for that country’s Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution, was at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) last week to see what she could learn about the intersection of health, law, and national constitutions during a weeklong program focused on health rights and the law. “My interest is to learn from the experiences of other countries, how to get implementation of social and economic rights,” Mumma said. Mumma was participating in the Global School on Socioeconomic Rights’ course on health rights litigation, organized by Alicia Ely Yamin, a lecturer on global health and director of the Program on the Health Rights of Women and Children at HSPH’s François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights. The 44 participants this...

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