A/HRC/4/28 page 23 Annex NOTES TO THE REPORT 1 In the framework of his mandate, the Special Rapporteur also participated in a range of additional meetings and workshops between September and December 2006. For example, he participated as an instructor on the course “Monitoreando el Derecho a la Salud en América Latina”, held in Lima, Peru, and organized by EdhucaSalud and the International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organizations (IFHHRO). He was also a keynote speaker at the conference, “Exclusión y Derecho a la Salud: La Función de los Profesionales de la Salud”, which was also organized by EdhucaSalud and IFHHRO and held in Lima. Whilst in Peru, he co-organized an informal consultation on maternal mortality and human rights, together with CARE; CARE Peru; the Averting Maternal Death and Disability Program, Mailman School of Public Health; and the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex. He presented a paper at the conference, “Welfare Rights: in Theory and Practice”, held at Oxford University. He spoke at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association on “Human Rights and Public Health: At the Crossroads”. He participated at a meeting on population and the Millennium Development Goals organized by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Population and Sustainability Network. The Special Rapporteur also spoke at a seminar in Belfast organized by the Participation and the Practice of Rights Project, on “Making and Measuring Change-A Human Rights Based Approach to Health”. He also participated in a conference in Cairo organized by the Egyptian National Council on Human Rights on “The Right to Development: 20 Years After, What’s Next?”. 2 For an early examination of the linkages between human rights and HIV/AIDS see K. Tomasevski, S. Gruskin, Z. Lazzarini and A. Hendricks, “AIDS and Human Rights” in J. Mann, D. Tarantola and T. Netter (eds), AIDS in the World, Harvard University Press, 1992, pp. 538-573. 3 It remains to be seen whether or not the new Government, established in mid-2006, maintains this commitment. 4 Shared Responsibility: Sweden’s Policy for Global Development, Government Bill 2002/03:122. 5 In an especially welcome development, a few WHO country offices have appointed Health and Human Rights Officers. 6 7 For more on WHO, see the Conclusion to this chapter. Recent contributions to the academic literature include S. Gruskin, M. Grodin, G. Annas, S. Marks (eds), Perspectives on Health and Human Rights, 2006; A. Yamin, The Future in the Mirror: Incorporating Strategies for the Defence and Promotion of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights into the Mainstream Human Rights Agenda, 27 (4) Human Rights Quarterly 2005; J. Ruger, Towards a Theory of a Right to Health: Capability and Incompletely Theorized Arguments, 18 Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 2006.