Sundhed, menneskerettigheder og migranter

Seminar: Health, Human Rights and Migration

Time: Thursday 30th of September at 14.15 – 16.00 hours

Venue: Center for Health and Society, room 15.3.01, Øster Farimagsgade 5 (det gamle kommunehospital), Kbn

Seminar: Health, Human Rights and Migration

Time: Thursday 30th of September at 14.15 – 16.00 hours

Venue: Center for Health and Society, room 15.3.01, Øster Farimagsgade 5 (det gamle kommunehospital), Kbn

Papers by: Mandana Zarrehparvar, senior consultant with the Danish Institute for Human Rights; and Brigit Toebes, PhD, researcher and consultant, University of Aberdeen School of Law.

The seminar introduces the relationship between health and human rights with a special emphasis on migrants’ health, and presents the legal framework regulating the field (‘Danish law and international and European human rights law). Moreover, a rights based approach to access to health care for migrants is more specifically presented.

The seminar is held in cooperation between Danish Research Centre on Migration, Ethnicity and Health (MESU), The Danish Institute for Human Rights and The Migration Initiative at the University of Copenhagen

PROGRAM

14.15–14.20
Welcome by Marie Nørredam, Research Director, The Danish Research Centre for Migration, Ethnicity and Health, University of Copenhagen.

14.20–15.00
An introduction to health and human rights by Brigit Toebes, PhD, researcher and consultant, University of Aberdeen School of Law.

15.00–15.10
Break

15.10-15.30
A rights based approach to access to health care for migrants by Mandana Zarrehparvar, senior consultant with the Danish Institute for Human Rights.

15.30–16.30
Discussion, Marie Nørredam, Research Director, The Danish Research Centre for Migration, Ethnicity and Health, University of Copenhagen.

Yderligere oplysninger hos:
Janne Sørensen, AC-fuldmægtig
Københavns Universitet
Det Sundhedsvidenskabelige Fakultet
Institut for Folkesundhedsvidenskab
CSS, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1014 Kbn K
Tlf. 35 32 72 88 og e-mail [email protected]
web: www.ifsv.ku.dk og www.mesu.ku.dk