Various forces have aligned over the past 50 years to redefine sadness and depressed mood, from a multifactorial maladaptation to one’s surroundings to a homogeneous disease primarily treated with medication. This dominance of the medical model and the pharmaceutical industry’s influence on ...

In this talk, Alicia Ely Yamin gives a brief overview of concepts and international norms related to health and psycho-social disability, and human rights-based approaches to health and disability justice. Based on personal experience working with Disability Rights International, she then ...

Prof Dainius Pūras, the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, and Alberto Vasquez, Co-director for the Center for Inclusive Policy, will be speaking at an upcoming conference in Oslo (in person and online) on 10 September 2024, organised by the Human Rights Foundation ...

Historically, occupational health has identified workplace injuries as physical. However, with the global rise of psychiatric language, new conceptions of psychological injury are emerging. What do these mental health injuries enact concerning historical and current labour issues? What roles ...