Matiangai Sirleaf

Jul 15, 2024 | justsecurity.org | Matiangai Sirleaf

IntroductionPalestine is a litmus test and, as I wrote in a recent article in the International Journal of Transnational Justice, is unearthing “who has historically been entitled to levy the charge of genocide, which genocides have been cognizable, and which have been unremembered.” A technical and legal discourse abounds about whether particular standards are met for international crimes.

Dec 22, 2023 | genevahealthfiles.substack.com | Jayashree Watal |Lawrence O. Gostin |Matiangai Sirleaf |Alexandra Phelan

Dear Readers, Presenting to you a wrap of the last four months of the many exclusives, analyses, interviews, podcasts and guest essays from Geneva Health Files. Thank you for your reading. Such a privilege to serve an engaged readership! Consider supporting us in one of the many ways. We wish to remain reader-funded and editorially independent to continue doing public interest global health journalism. If you find our work valuable, become a paying subscriber.

Sep 27, 2023 | genevahealthfiles.substack.com | Matiangai Sirleaf |Alexandra Phelan |Priti Patnaik

Hi,We at a time when institutional responses require interdisciplinary approaches to address the complex and intertwined challenges posed by the climate crisis and health emergencies. These distinct but overlapping policy responses would do well to draw from one another.

Sep 1, 2023 | cambridge.org | Alexandra Phelan |Matiangai Sirleaf

Global health law for pandemics currently lacks legal obligations to ensure distributional and reparative justice in critical areas, such as equitable access to vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics, and compensatory financing to strengthen health systems. This reflects the colonial history and present of international law for infectious diseases.