List of illustrations
Case studies
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
List of acronyms
1. Introduction
2. The global human rights system
3. Regional human rights systems
4. National and sub-national human rights systems
5. Health equity and human rights
6. The rights of the child
7. Refugee Protection
8. Human rights for people with a disability
Joanne Watson, Kate Anderson, Patsie Frawley, and Susan Balandin.
9. Elimination of racial discrimination
10. Monitoring human rights
11. Responding to breaches of human rights
12. Advocacy for human rights
13. Conclusion
Note on sources
Appendix – the UDHR
Index
Biography
Fiona H. McKay is Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University, Australia.
Ann Taket was Professor of Health and Social Exclusion in the School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University, Australia, and Director of the Centre for Health through Action on Social Exclusion (CHASE) until her retirement at the end of 2019.
