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The reality of migration today is that a large majority of migrants in vulnerable situations either do not have access, or have only very restricted access, to healthcare. While the current importance of the migratory phenomenon and the need to provide protection to disadvantaged migrants has, in recent years, triggered a strong response from the international community in favour of the protection of the rights of persons, either refugees or migrants, fleeing their countries of origin; the central challenge of protecting and promoting the right of migrants to health seems as difficult to as ever. This article firstly sets out the international community's recent political commitments to protect the human rights of migrants as well as the norms of international law applicable to the protection of the health of migrants, mainly contained within international human rights law and international refugee and migrant law. It then discusses the numerous barriers at the national level which block migrants, particularly in vulnerable situations, from accessing care. In doing so, this article highlights the profound paradoxes between State's international commitments on the one hand, and State practices to protect and promote migrant access to healthcare on the other.

The reality of migration today is that a large majority of migrants in vulnerable situations either do not have access, or have only very restricted access, to healthcare. While the current importance of the migratory phenomenon and the need to provide protection to disadvantaged migrants has, in recent years, trig-gered a strong response from the international community in favour of the protec-tion of the rights of persons, either refugees or migrants, fleeing their countries of origin; the central challenge of protecting and promoting the right of migrants to health seems as difficult to as ever. This article firstly sets out the international community's recent political commitments to protect the human rights of migrants as well as the norms of international law applicable to the protection of the health of migrants, mainly contained within international human rights law and interna-tional refugee and migrant law. It then discusses the numerous barriers at the na-tional level which block migrants, particularly in vulnerable situations, from ac-cessing care. In doing so, this article highlights the profound paradoxes between State's international commitments on the one hand, and State practices to protect and promote migrant access to healthcare on the other.

In October 2013, the WHO Regional Office for Europe organized a regional workshop on tuberculosis, ethics and human rights. As part of the follow-up, a mission was conducted to Ukraine on 20–24 April 2015 with the following objectives: (i) to assess national primary and secondary legislation governing the involuntary isolation and treatment for TB and the compassionate use of new anti-TB drugs; (ii) to initiate a policy dialogue with the major national and international stakeholders in the country; and (iii) to develop specific recommendations for the alignment of existing legislation with the international treaties, conventions and declarations adopted by Ukraine and with WHO's recommendations on ethics and human rights. Specific recommendations from the mission included the need to: (i) update current legislation and operational guidelines to limit involuntary isolation, and (ii) make use of the existing legislative framework for importing much needed new anti-TB drugs such as delamanid and bedaquiline.

Le but de cet article est de montrer, à l'appui des exemples allemand et français, que la méthode comparative est une méthode d'apprentissage mutuel – et non unilatéral – utile au développement du droit administratif. À travers l'analyse comparée des évolutions profondes des deux ordres juridiques touchant les agents du développement du droit administratif, l'influence du principe démocratique et la structure de l'administration locale, les auteurs mettent en évidence des développements parallèles et des points de rencontre qui constituent une réserve de solutions et de modèles dans laquelle peuvent se servir des systèmes politico-administratifs souvent confrontés aux mêmes difficultés.