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courts and
international
and regional
human rights
bodies all
around the
world.
The Database
is the first
attempt to
make health
and human
rights law
from both
common and
civil law
jurisdictions
available
online for
free of
charge, and
features
case law
from around
the world.
The Database
provides
original
translations
of the case
law
previously
unavailable
in English.
According to
the
Global
Network for
Public
Interest Law
an official
public
launch of
the Database
was held on
24 October
2013, at the
headquarters
of the
United
Nations in
New York.
Lawyers
Collective
and the
O’Neill
Institute
for National
and Global
Health Law
at
Georgetown
University
developed
the database
in
collaboration
with a
worldwide
network of
civil
society and
individual
attorney
partners. In
Tbilisi,
Georgia
attorney
partners of
the Lawyers
Collective
were Levan
Jorbenadze,
Drug Policy
Georgia and
Nato Papava.
Lawyers
Collective (www.lawyerscollective.org)
is a New
Delhi,
Mumbai based
leading NGO
in India
focusing on
strategic
litigation
and advocacy
in HIV/AIDS
and women’s
rights.
The creation
of the
Database
made
possible
with the
support of
the
Levi-Strauss
Foundation
and the Ford
Foundation.
The Database
might be
useful for
research and
lawyer
practitioners
and for
scholars or
policy
makers
analyzing
the legal
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