Faculty and Staff of The Center for Population and Family Health

Lynn Freedman, J.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Clinical Population & Family Health
lpf1@columbia.edu

EXPERTISE: Human Rights, particularly health and human rights and international women's rights, as well as the U.N. Convention on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women; reproductive rights, women's health and population policy; women's legal status internationally.

Director, Law and Policy Project

RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

Lynn P. Freedman (2001). "Using Human Rights in Maternal Mortality Programs: From Analysis to Strategy" International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics. 75:51-60.

Lynn Freedman (2000). "Women's Health and Human Rights" in Women and Health, Marlene Goldman and Maureen Hatch, eds. Academic Press. Forthcoming.

Lynn Freedman. "Finding Our Feet, Standing Our Ground: Reproductive Health Activism in an Era of Rising Fundamentalism and Economic Globalization" in Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women, Courtney W. Howland, ed. p.21-32.

Lynn Freedman (1997). "Human Rights and the Politics of Risk and Blame: Lessons from the International Reproductive Health Movement," Journal of the American Medical Women's Association, 52(4):165-168.

Lynn Freedman (1996). "The Challenge of Fundamentalisms," Reproductive Health Matters, 8:55-69.

Deborah Maine, Lynn Freedman et al. (1995). "Risk and Rights: The Uses of Reproductive Health Data," Reproductive Health Matters, 6:40-50.

Lynn P. Freedman (1995). "Reflections on Emerging Frameworks of Health and Human Rights," Health and Human Rights, 1(4):315-348.

Lynn P. Freedman (1995). "Censorship and Manipulation of Family Planning Information: An Issue of Human Rights and Women's Health" in Article 19, The Right to Know: Human Rights and Access to Reproductive Health Information. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Lynn P. Freedman and Deborah Maine (1995). "Facing Facts: The Role of Epidemiology in Reproductive Rights Advocacy," The American University Law Review 44(4).

D. Maine, L. Freedman, F. Shaheed, and S. Frautschi (1994). "Risk, Reproduction and Rights: The Uses of Reproductive Health Data," in R. Cassen, ed., Population and Development: Old Debates, New Conclusions. Wash., DC: Overseas Development Council.

Lynn P. Freedman and Stephen L. Isaacs (1993). "Human Rights and Reproductive Choice." Studies in Family Planning, Jan/Feb 1993, vol. 24, no. 1. Reprinted in Journal of Human Rights Law & Practice vol.3, nos.1,2,3 (December 1993), published by Civil Liberties Organisation, Nigeria. Also reprinted in International New Approach toward Reproductive Health and Family Planning, published by China Population and Research Center (Beijing, 1997) (In Chinese).

Lynn P. Freedman and Deborah Maine (1992). "Women's Mortality: A Legacy of Neglect," in The Health of Women: A Global Perspective. Eds. Marjorie A. Koblinsky, et al. Westview Press: Colorado.