Alicia Yamin

Publications

Books & Monographs

  1. Langford M, Sumner A & Yamin AE. Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights: Past, Present and Future. London: Cambridge University Press; forthcoming 2013.
  2. Yamin AE & Gloppen S, eds., La Lucha Por Los Derechos de al Salud: Puede la Justicia Ser Una Herramienta de Cambio? Mexico: de Siglo XXI Editores; 2013.
  3. Yamin AE & Gloppen S, eds. Litigating Health Rights: Can Courts Bring More Justice to Health? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.
  4. Yamin AE. Deadly Delays: Maternal Mortality in Peru. A Rights-Based Approach to Safe Motherhood. Cambridge: Physicians for Human Rights, 2007.
  5. Yamin AE ed. Los derechos económicos, sociales y culturales en América Latina: Del invento a la herramienta. Mexico City: Plaza y Valdés Editores, 2006.
  6. Yamin AE, ed. Learning to Dance: Case Studies on Advancing Women’s Reproductive Health and Well-Being from the Perspectives of Public Health and Human Rights. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  1. Yamin AE. Applying human rights to maternal health: UN Technical Guidance on rights-based approaches. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics. Published online 2013.
  2. Friedman E, Dasgupta J, Yamin AE & Gostin LO. Realizing the right to health through a Framework Convention on Global Health? Health and Human Rights. 2013; 15:1-4.
  3. Yamin AE & Falb KL. Counting What We Know: Knowing what to Count: Sexual and reproductive rights, maternal health, and the Millennium Development Goals. Nordic Journal on Human Rights. 2012; 30:3: 350–371.
  4. Meier BM & Yamin AE. Right to Health Litigation and HIV/AIDS Policy. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 2011; 39:81-84.
  5. Yamin AE. Toward Transformative Accountability: A Proposal for Rights-based Approaches to Fulfilling Maternal Health Obligations. Sur: An International Journal. 2010; 7(12): 95-122.
  6. Yamin AE & Parra–Vera O. How do courts set health policy? The case of the Colombian Constitutional Court. PLoS Medicine. 2009; 6(2): 0147-0150.
  7. Miranda JJ & Yamin AE. Educando a los futuros profesionales de salud: un desafío para la salud y los derechos humanos en America Latina (Educating Future Health Professionals: A Challenge for Health and Human Rights in Latin America). Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública. 2009; 25(3):302-08.
  8. Miranda JJ & Yamin AE. Políticas de Salud y Salud Politizada? Un análisis de las políticas de salud sexual y reproductiva desde la perspectiva de la ética médica, la calidad de atención y los derechos humanos (Health Policies and Politicized Health?: An Analysis of Reproductive and Sexual Health Policies in Peru from the Perspectives of Medical Ethics, Quality of Care and Human Rights). Cadernos de Saúde Pública. 2008; 24(1): 7-15.
  9. Yamin AE. The Right to Health under International Law and its Relevance to the United States. American Journal of Public Health. 2005; 95 (7):1156-61.
  10. Yamin AE. Promising but Elusive Engagements: Combining Public Health and Human Rights to Promote Women’s Well-being. Health and Human Rights. 2005; 8(1): 62-92.
  11. Yamin AE & Rosenthal E. Out of the Shadows: Using Human Rights Approaches to Secure Dignity and Well-being for People with Mental Disabilities. PLoS Medicine. 2005; 2 (4):102-104.
  12. Miranda JJ & Yamin AE. Frameworks for Understanding Dilemmas of Health Care in a Globalised World: A Case Study of Reproductive Health Policies in Peru. Politics and Ethics Review. 2005; 1(2):177-187.
  13. Shaffer ER, Brenner JE & Yamin AE. The FTAA: Health Hazard for the Americas? Journal of Developing Societies. 2004; 19 (2-3): 137-171.
  14. Miranda JJ & Yamin AE. Reproductive Health without Rights in Peru. Lancet. 2004; 363: 66-69.
  15. Yamin AE. Challenges and Possibilities for Innovative Praxis in Health and Human Rights: Reflections from Peru. Health and Human Rights. 2002; 6: 35-64.
  16. Yamin AE & Miranda JJ. Ética, Calidad de Atención y Derechos Humanos (Ethics, Quality of Care and Human Rights). Idéese. 2002; 1: 35-42.
  17. Yamin AE. Protecting and Promoting the Right to Health in Latin America: Selected Experiences from the Field. Health and Human Rights. 2000; 5:116-148.
  18. Yamin AE. Dignidad y Bienestar- El Valor de las Técnicas y Metodologías Médicas en la Promoción de los Derechos Humanos: El Caso Estudio de México. Cuadernos Médicos Sociales. 1998; 74:5-24.
  19. Yamin AE. Transformative Combinations: Women’s Health and Human Rights. JAMWA. 1997; 52:169-173.
  20. Yamin AE. “Ethnic Cleansing” and Other Lies: Reflections on Combining Health and Human Rights in the Search for Truth and Justice in the Former Yugoslavia. Health and Human Rights. 1996; 2:58-87.[Also reprinted in: J. Mann ed. Health and Human Rights: A Reader. Routledge; London: 1999.]

Other Publications

  1. Yamin AE. Towards transformative accountability: Applying a rights-based approach to fulfill maternal health obligations. In: Hunt P, Gray T (eds). Maternal Mortality, Human Rights and Accountability. Oxford: Routledge; 2013.
  2. Yamin AE. The Right to Health: Where do we stand and how far have we come? Essay Review of John Tobin, The Right to Health in International Law (London; Oxford University Press, 2012). Human Rights Quarterly (forthcoming, May 2013).
  3. Parra-Vera O & Yamin AE. Justicia y salud en Columbia: retos y oportunida des creadas mediante la intervencion de los jueces. In: Clerico L, Ronconi L & Aldao M, eds. Tratado de Derecho a la Salud. Buenos Aires: Abelardo Perrot; in press.
  4. Yamin AE. Emerging Voices: Alicia Ely Yamin on defining the next set of global development goals. Development Channel: The Council on Foreign Relations’ Emerging Voices online series. September 2012.
  5. Yamin AE, Gianella C. Family Planning: Population Numbers Game Must Add up for Women. The Guardian: Poverty Matters Blog. 10 Jul. 2012.
  6. Yamin AE. Empowering Visions: Toward a Dialectical Pedagogy of Human Rights. Human Rights Quarterly 1993; 5:640-685.
  7. Yamin AE. Defining Questions: Situating Issues of Power in the Formulation of a Right to Health under International Law. Human Rights Quarterly 1996; 18: 398-438.
  8. Yamin AE. Reflections on Defining, Understanding and Measuring Poverty in Terms of Violations of Economic and Social Rights under International Law. Georgetown Journal on Fighting Poverty 1997; 4:273-307.
  9. Yamin AE, Maine D. Maternal Mortality as a Human Rights Issue:  Measuring Compliance with International Treaty Obligations. Human Rights Quarterly 1999; 21:563-607.
  10. Yamin AE. Maternidad Segura: Prioridad Impostergable. Ideele. 2000; 129:61-64.
  11. Yamin AE. Conjurando Inequidades: Vigilancia Social sobre el Derecho A la Salud. Lima: Centro de Asesoría Legal, 2001.
  12. Yamin AE, Rios M, Hurtado R. Marco Conceptual de los Derechos Humanos en Salud. Documento preparado por Seminario-Taller: Salud Publica y derechos Humanos: Estableciendo Lazos. CIES Working Paper, 2002.
  13. Yamin AE. Not Just a Tragedy: Access to Medications as a Right Under International Law. Boston University Intl Law Journal, 2003; 21:325-371.
  14. Yamin AE. Castillos de Arena en el Camino hacia la modernidad: Una perspectiva desde derechos humanos sobre el proceso de reforma al sector Salud en el Perú (1990-2000) y las implicancias en la muerte materna. Lima: Centro de la Mujer Peruana Flora Tristán/University of San Marcos: Programa de Estudios de Genero, Población y Desarrollo, 2003.
  15. Yamin AE. Journeys toward the Splendid City, Review Essay of: Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor (University of California Press, 2003) Human Rights Quarterly 2004; 26: 519-38.
  16. Yamin AE.Embodying Shadows: Tracing the Contours of Women’s Rights to Health. In Gordon N., ed. From the Margin of Globalization: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights. New York: Lexington Books, 2004: 223-257.
  17. Yamin AE. The Future in the Mirror: Constructing and De-Constructing Strategies for the Defense and Promotion of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Human Rights Quarterly 2005; 27(3):1200-1244.
  18. Yamin AE. Learning to Dance: Bringing the Fields of Human Rights and Public Health Together to Promote Women’s Well-Being. In Yamin AE, ed. Learning to Dance: Case Studies on Advancing Women’s Reproductive Health and Well-Being from the Perspectives of Public Health and Human Rights. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005.
  19. Yamin AE. Health and human rights in Latin America:  A lawyer’s experience with public health internationalism. In AE Birn, TM Brown, eds. Comrades in Health: U.S. Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home. New York: Rutgers University Press, 2012.
  20. Robinson M, Yamin AE. Let’s stop women’s suffering. Op-Ed. Boston Globe. June 4, 2009.
  21. Yamin AE, Miranda JJ. Building a Rights-Based Health Movement: Lessons from the Peruvian Experience. In K. De Feyter, ed. The Local Relevance of  Human Rights. London: Cambridge University Press; 2011: 176-207.
  22. Carmalt J, Zaidi S, Yamin AE. Entrenched Inequity: Health Care in the United States. In Hertel S & Libal K, eds.Human Rights in the United States: Beyond Exceptionalism. London: Cambridge University Press; 2011: 153-174.
  23. Yamin AE, Parra-Vera O, Gianella C. Judicial Protection of the Right to Health in Colombia: An Elusive Promise? In: Yamin AE & Gloppen S, eds., Litigating Health Rights: Can Courts Bring More Justice to Health? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011:103-131.
  24. Yamin AE,  Norheim OF. Taking equality seriously: Applying human rights frameworks to priority setting in health. In Langford M, ed. Equality and Socio-Economic Rights in International Law and Perspective (Cambridge University Press; London, forthcoming, 2013)
  25. Yamin AE. Taking stock, looking forward: Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Maternal Health in the MDGs and Beyond. In Langford M,  Sumner A & Yamin AE, eds, Human Rights and the MDGs: Past, Present and Future (Cambridge University Press; London, Forthcoming 2013).
  26. Yamin AE. Sexual and Reproductive Rights From Theory to Practice: Maternal Mortality.  In Backman G & Fitchett J, eds, The Right to Health: From Theory to Practice. Stockholm: Student Littauer; 2011: 159-190.
  27. Maestad O, Ferraz O,  Yamin AE, NorheimOF, Gloppen S. How does litigation affect health financing? World Health Organization Technical Brief Series. Brief No 15. 2010.
  28. Yamin AE and Irwin A. Collaborative imperatives, elusive dialogues. Health and Human Rights: An International Journal 2010;12:1-2 (editorial).
  29. Yamin AE. Una oportunidad para demostrar un liderazgo real sobre los derechos de la mujer. Op-Ed. El Pais. September 20, 2010.
  30. Yamin, AE. Colombia’s health reform: False debates; real imperatives. Lancet 2010; 375: 803 (correspondence).