User:Annkat22

About Me
I am a student at Rice University in Houston, Texas and I am currently studying Psychology, Global Health Technologies, and Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities. I am very involved and interested in volunteer work, medical outreach, soccer, traveling, and photography. I hope to make valuable contributions to Wikipedia throughout my time at Rice University. Last semester, I was a member of a SOCI 371 class at Rice University. The new article that I wrote for my class in the fall is Health in Guatemala. For this upcoming semester, I am a part of the SOCI 394 course about human development. For this course, I will once again contribute to a Wikipedia article or even generate another new article.

Health in Guatemala
I spent two weeks in the summer of 2015 in Guatemala as a part of a medical outreach team. I learned a lot about the health system and the amount of time that was dedicated to health education. While I was looking up Guatemala on Wikipedia, I noticed that the only section that they had on health was in the actual article about the country as a whole. I thought that it would be incredibly beneficial to start a new article focused on Guatemalan health itself. The parent article for Health is very dense and has so much information that covers a wide range of topics relating to health. Therefore, I thought it was necessary that there is a subset article about health in Guatemala, a country that suffers immensely in terms of health care availability.

I have completely created and finished this new article, so all of the organization and writing is my own work.

Human Rights in Peru
I have always been interested in human rights and how it relates to health care in the larger sense. The human rights implications in a certain country can greatly affect its overall success in health care and accessibility. Similarly, there are so many areas of human rights that I am not familiar with and I would love to be able to research about the different problems in a country outside of my own. Therefore, because of my trip to Peru this summer, I would love to learn more about the human rights problems that the country is facing before I get there. I think that human rights are so connected to the health of individuals, making it very interesting to research and relate to the overall health of Peru. If I wrote on this topic, I would be adding and expanding the Human Rights in Peru article. I think it would be beneficial to section out the article, adding headings like labor rights, reproductive rights, health rights, etc. From here, I will be able to develop the article even further.

I am regenerating the article for Human Rights in Peru for this semester.

Resources

Cabin, Michael A. "Labor Rights in the Peru Agreement: Can Vague Principles Yield Concrete Change?." Columbia Law Review (2009): 1047-1093.

Cáceres, C., M. Cueto, and N. Palomino. "Policies around sexual and reproductive health and rights in Peru: Conflict, biases and silence.” Global Public Health 3, no. S2 (2008): 39-57.

Coe, Anna-Britt. "Health rights and realities: an analysis of the ReproSalud Project in Peru." (2001).

Field, Erica. "Entitled to work: Urban property rights and labor supply in Peru." Princeton Law & Public Affairs Working Paper 02-1 (2002): 1-63.

Garcia, Maria Elena. "The politics of community: education, indigenous rights, and ethnic mobilization in Peru." Latin American Perspectives (2003): 70-95.

García, María Elena. "Rethinking bilingual education in Peru: Intercultural politics, state policy and indigenous rights." International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 7, no. 5 (2004): 348-367.

Gray, Andrew. Indigenous rights and development: self-determination in an Amazonian community. Vol. 3. Berghahn Books, 1997.

Levitt, Peggy, and Sally Merry. "Vernacularization on the ground: local uses of global women's rights in Peru, China, India and the United States." Global Networks 9, no. 4 (2009): 441-461.

Miranda, J. Jaime, and Alicia Ely Yamin. "Reproductive health without rights in Peru." The Lancet 363, no. 9402 (2004): 68-69.

US Department of State. “Peru 2014 Human Rights Report.” (2014). http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/236922.pdf