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Socio-economic rights links
Research on global health links
China links

Socio-economic rights links

ESCR-Net
The International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) is a collaborative initiative of groups and individuals from around the world working to secure economic and social justice through human rights. ESCR-Net seeks to strengthen the field of all human rights, with a special focus on economic, social and cultural rights, and further develop the tools for achieving their promotion, protection and fulfillment.

Treatment Action Group – TAG
TAG is an independent AIDS research and policy think tank fighting for better treatment, a vaccine, and a cure for AIDS. TAG’s programs focus on antiretroviral treatments, HIV basic science and immunology, vaccines and prevention technologies, hepatitis, and tuberculosis. It is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1992 and based in New York City.

Lawyers Collective
Established in 1981, the Lawyers Collective is one of the leading public interest service providers in India with a proven record of setting high standards in human rights advocacy, legal aid and litigation. It runs funded projects on HIV/AIDS related discrimination and women’s rights. Over the years the Lawyers Collective has collaborated with other professionals as required for their expert opinion and supervision in specific cases.

South African Journal of Bioethics and Law
SAJBL is an online bi-annual, peer reviewed, journal that covers matters related to ethics, law, human rights and related matters for the health professions.

The School of Law, University of Essex
The School has teaching and research interests in all areas of the legal curriculum, including: public law and human rights law at national, European and international levels; company, commercial and trade law; family, child and medical law; digital and communications technology laws; and humanitarian and environmental law.

UNAIDS – Human Rights and HIV
Over the past decade the critical need for strengthening human rights to effectively respond to the epidemic and deal with its effects has become evermore clear. SECTION27 has worked with UNAIDS specifically on protecting human rights and in the context of HIV.

Research on global health links

i-Base
HIV i-Base is a treatment activist group, HIV-positive led and committed to providing timely HIV treatment information to HIV-positive people and to health care professionals. All publications have been produced with the involvement of HIV-positive people and are reviewed by a medical advisory group.

Law, Race and Gender Research Unit, University of Cape Town
The LRG was established in 1994 as a research and training unit. It’s goal is to provide training that enables judicial officers, and particularly those in the lower courts, to meet the challenges of a democratic South Africa and to deliver justice appropriate to a diverse society.

China links

The China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group
The China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group (CHRLCG) is a non-profit organisation based in Hong Kong. It focuses attention on advocating for the protection of the rights of human rights lawyers and legal rights defenders in China, as well as on human rights issues that face lawyers in China. It was established on 20 January 2007 by prominent human rights lawyer and legislator Albert Ho Chun-yan, legislator Emily Lau Wai-hing, barristers Cheung Yiu-leung, Ho Wai-yang, Linda Wong and Hectar Pun, solicitors John Clancey and Chong Yiu-kwong, and journalism professor To Yiu-ming.