“The Right to Health: Sex Workers and the LGBTQ+ Community In India and Uganda” with Mr. Anand Grover, Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health
10/10
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2024-10-10 12:15:00
2024-10-10 13:20:00
“The Right to Health: Sex Workers and the LGBTQ+ Community In India and Uganda” with Mr. Anand Grover, Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health
Event details: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/events/right-health-lgbtq-individuals-india-uganda-mr-anand-grover-former-un-special-rapporteur
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University of Chicago Law School
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Room V
1111 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Room V
1111 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Open to the public
Presenting student organizations: International Law Society Human Rights Law Society
Presenting student organizations: International Law Society Human Rights Law Society
Anand Grover is one of India's leading human rights litigators. For over four decades, Mr. Grover has argued and won major cases in the Indian Supreme Court and High Courts advancing LGBTQ rights, access to life-saving medicines, the rights of people living with HIV, and many others. Trained as a biochemist, Mr. Grover is a pioneer in using science to advance health rights in India and worldwide as the former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (2008-14). Anand Grover will discuss lessons learned from his advocacy and their relationship to the international right to health.