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11.08.19
Mexico to adopt front-of-package warning labels in the fight for healthy foods
By Isabel Barbosa | Leave a Comment
On October 22, Mexico’s legislators passed a bill to reform the General Health Law (in Spanish, “Ley General de Salud”) to include front-of-package warning labels. In both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the bill passed in a landslide: in the House of Representatives, there were 458 in favor, 2 abstentions, 0 against; in the Senate, 114 […]
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10.24.19
Privatization of Public Services and the Risks to Human Rights: Alston’s Report on the Digital Welfare State
By Andrés Constantin | Leave a Comment
Last Friday, October 18th, Philip Alston, Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, presented his report on human rights and digital welfare states to the UN General Assembly. The report, a result of Alston’s country visits to the UK, the US as well as 60 submissions from 34 countries, warns of the misuse and […]
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10.18.19
Utilizing Model Laws to Expand Access to Cancer Treatments in Africa
By Lidiya Teklemariam | Leave a Comment
WHO reports that 70% of deaths caused by cancer occur in low and middle-income countries where it is very difficult to access diagnosis and treatment leading to late-stage identification of the disease and minimal chance of survival. One of the things that come to my mind when I think of Africa and cancer is the […]
Posted in Food and Drug Law, Health and Human Rights, Healthcare, Non-Communicable Diseases ;
10.10.19
Our House is on Fire: Climate Change as a Global Public Health Crisis
By Margherita Cinà | Leave a Comment
In September, the United Nations Secretary-General convened a Climate Action Summit to mobilize governments, businesses, and civil society organizations to enhance global action and address the undeniable threats from climate change. In his opening statement, UN Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated that: “[t]he best science, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, tells us that […]
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10.04.19
Gun Violence and E-Cigarettes: It Might Be Worth Focusing on Similarities Instead
By Isabel Barbosa | Leave a Comment
Image by Slyngstad Earlier this month, amid the alarming outbreak of lung injury associated with e-cigarette use in the United States, the Trump Administration announced its intention to ban flavored e-cigarettes. This prompted a response from gun-control advocates, who pointed out that gun deaths vastly outnumber the fatalities attributed to vaping. Shannon Watts, founder of […]
Posted in Health and Human Rights, Human Rights, Tobacco ;
10.01.19
Universal health coverage: The numbers behind the headlines
By Eric A. Friedman | Leave a Comment
At the end of this posting, which is mostly about universal health coverage, please see the update on actions that, if you are in the United States, you can take to create some measure of accountability for those responsible for the genocide of the Rohingya people in Burma and to end U.S. involvement in the […]
Posted in Global Health, Health and Human Rights, Healthcare, Human Rights, WHO ; Tagged: Burma, military, political declaration, Rohingya, Saudi Arabia, UN High-Level Meeting on UHC, universal health coverage, World Health Organization, Yemen.
09.04.19
The Framework Convention on Global Health: An Empowering International Instrument to Advance the Right to Health
By Eric A. Friedman | Leave a Comment
We often look to how the Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) would empower people, enhancing meaningful participation and government accountability to the right to health, with an emphasis on people who now have the least voice and to whom governments are least accountable. Such empowerment is central to the FCGH. Here, I focus on […]
Posted in Global Health, Health and Human Rights, Human Rights, Legal Issues, WHO ; Tagged: accountability, equity, fcgh, Framework Convention on Global Health, human rights, ministries of health, participation, quality health care, right to health, universal health coverage.
08.21.19
Human Duties, Populism and Hope for Global Health
By Andrés Constantin | Leave a Comment
This post was written by Ana Isabel Fernández Alonso and Andrés Constantin « All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights (…) » Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the “ABC” of activists and scholars in the field and a statement used in countless speeches to address unity among […]
Posted in Global Health, Health and Human Rights, Human Rights ; Tagged: #duties, #globalhealth, #populism, human rights.
08.13.19
Proposing an international fund for migrant and refugee health
By Eric A. Friedman | Leave a Comment
Few groups of people face less welcome in the world today than migrants forced from their homes, whether by conflict, persecution, violence, poverty, climate change or other environmental degradation, or hopelessness – or often, a mix of these factors. They seek basic safety, freedom, and opportunity – what all of us have a right to, yet […]
Posted in Global Health, Global Health Governance, Health and Human Rights, Human Rights, Legal Issues, uncategorized ; Tagged: immigrants, international fund, migrants, non-discrimination, refugees, right to health.
08.12.19
Global Health and Digital Rights: a Discussion on Human Rights
By Laura Norato | Leave a Comment
The discussion about digital rights has been mainly centered on civil and political rights. Nevertheless, the emergence of social networks, communication platforms and connected devices, the appearance of new technologies and digital services directed to the most vulnerable populations information, and the existence of daily-updated algorithms that can predict choices based on data collected over […]
Posted in Global Health, Health and Human Rights, Human Rights, Legal Issues, uncategorized ;
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