Publications:  Health and Human Rights

The latest publications

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Direito E Políticas Públicas: A Regulação Dos Ambientes Alimentares No Brasil (Law and Public Policy: the Regulation of Food Environments in Brazil)

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Caricom’s Efforts To Tackle Unhealthy Diets: A Cautionary Tale for Latin America

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Direito E Políticas Públicas: A Regulação Dos Ambientes Alimentares No Brasil (Law and Public Policy: the Regulation of Food Environments in Brazil)

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Public Health Protection vs. Freedom of Commercial Expression in the Commonwealth Caribbean: The Case of Barbados and Jamaica

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Restricting Unhealthy Food and Beverage Advertising in Brazil: Challenges and Opportunities

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Balancing the Scales: The Role of the Canadian Supreme Court in Weighing Commercial Speech and Public Health

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Commercial Speech and the Prohibition of Tobacco Advertising: The Colombian Constitutional Court Approach

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The Influence of the Commercial Speech Doctrine on the Development of Tobacco Control Measures

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Commercial Speech and Unhealthy Food Products: Conceptual Foundations

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INTRODUCTION: Commercial Speech and the Commercial Determinants of Health

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Commercial Speech and Commercial Determinants of Health

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Stopping the For-Profit Pandemic

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OPINION: Is a WHO pandemic treaty set to fail?

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A human rights-based approach to non-communicable diseases: mandating front-of-package warning labels

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Los determinantes sociales de la salud : más allá del derecho a la salud (The Social Determinants of Health: Beyond the Right to Health)

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Front-of-package warning labels – CARICOM can either follow science or protect private interests

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State Obligations in the Context of Unhealthy Diets: Paving the Way Within the Inter-American Human Rights System

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International Human Rights and Childhood Obesity Prevention

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Public health prevention should be at the center of global health

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Etiquetado Frontal de Advertencia: Cumplimiento con Obligaciones de Derechos Humanos (Front-of-Package Warning Labeling: Compliance with Human Rights Obligations)

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Etiquetado Frontal de Advertencia en Productos Comestibles (Front-of-Package Warning Labeling on Edible Products)

Legal Case

Amicus Curiae: Estándares internacionales y jurisprudencia comparada sobre demarcación de territorios indígenas y Derechos Económicos, Sociales, Culturales y Ambientales

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Muerte o Cárcel: Persecución y Sanción por Aborto (Death or Jail: Persecution and Punishment for Abortion)

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Big Food and Soda Versus Public Health: Industry Litigation Against Local Government Regulations to Promote Healthy Diets

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The Untapped Power of Soda Taxes: Incentivizing Consumers, Generating Revenue, and Altering Corporate Behavior

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Trade, Investment, and Tobacco

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Guía de Incidencia Para la Promoción y Defensa del Derecho al Aborto Legal y Seguro en Latinoamérica y el Caribe (Advocacy Guide for the Promotion and Defense of the Right to Legal and Safe Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean)

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Vidas Robadas: Un Estudio Multipaís Sobre los Efectos en la Salud de las Maternidades Forzadas en Niñas de 9–14 Años (Stolen Lives: A Multi-country Study of the Health Effects of Forced Maternity in Girls Aged 9-14)

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Global Tobacco Control: A Vital Component of the Right to Health

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Tobacco Control Litigation: Broader Impacts on Health Rights Adjudication

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A Guide to Tobacco-Related Shadow Reporting Before United Nations Human Rights Bodies

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Bridging International Law and Rights-based Litigation: Mapping Health-related Rights through the Development of the Global Health and Human Rights Database

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Tobacco Industry Strategy in Latin American Courts: A Litigation Guide (Spanish Version)

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Tobacco Industry Strategy in Latin American Courts: A Litigation Guide (English Version)

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Estrategia de la Industria del Tabaco en el Ámbito Judicial Latinoamericano

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The Politics of Reproductive Health Rights in Uruguay: Why the Presidential Veto to the Right to Abortion is Illegitimate

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Human Rights and the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Mutually Reinforcing Systems

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Los Derechos Reproductivos: Un Debate Necesario

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El Veto Del Ejecutivo Uruguayo a la Despenalizacion del Aborto: Deconstruyendo sus Fundamentos

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Human Rights as a Tool for Tobacco Control in Latin America

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Secreto Profesional Médico y Servicios de Salud Sexual y Reproductiva en la Jurisprudencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos