Health, Human Rights and Migrants – University of Copenhagen

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Health, Human Rights and Migration

Research seminar about human rights and migrants' access to health services. Papers by Brigit Toebes, PhD, researcher and consultant, Aberdeen University School of Law; Marie Louise Nørredam, PhD, Research Director for for MESU, University of Copenhagen, and Mandana Zarrehparvar, senior consultant at the Danish Institute for Human Rights.

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

Time and venue
September 30, 14:15-16:00
CSS, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1353 Copenhagen
Room 15.3.01 (click here for map)

All are welcome, please register here in advance

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.

Themes
Brigit Toebes introduces the human rights aspect, with special emphasis on the health perspective, and presents the legal framework regulating the field (Danish, international and EU laws). This paper is follow by presentations defining the different groups of migrants, and the underlying reasons for inequality in access to health services, using a Triple A-Q-framework (Availability, Accessibility, Acceptability and Quality) for migrants' health and access to the health system. The presentations are followed by a general discussion, where issues like migrants' human rights can be discussed in relation to their access to health services.