Health services, healthcare, human rights, stateless people
Limitations on universality: the "right to health" and the necessity of legal nationality

This paper focuses on stateless individuals often face an inability to access the most basic healthcare, much less the “highest attainable standard of health” outlined by international agreements. Rather than presuming nationality, statelessness must be recognized by the medical community. Additionally, it is imperative that stateless populations be recognized, the health of these populations be tracked, and more research conducted to further elaborate upon the connection between statelessness and access to healthcare services, and hence a universal right to health.

Link: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900sid/EGUA-86VM3H/$file/bmc-right-to-health-jun2010.pdf?opene...
Added by View user profileKasem Ali on June 30, 2010