Human Rights in Global Health - Rights-Based Governance for a Globalizing World

This book uncovers the ways in which human rights influence global efforts to promote the health of the most vulnerable in a globalizing world. It examines the evolving relationship between human rights, global governance, and public health, studying an expansive set of health challenges through a multi-sectoral array of global organizations.

List of contents

• FOREWORD


• Human Rights in Global Health Governance


• Mary Robinson


• PREFACE


• Preface


• INTRODUCTION


• Responding to the Public Health Harms of a Globalizing World through Human Rights in Global Governance


• Benjamin Mason Meier and Lawrence O. Gostin


• PART I: HUMAN RIGHTS IN GLOBAL HEALTH


• 1. The Origins of Human Rights in Global Health


• Lawrence O. Gostin and Benjamin Mason Meier


• 2. The Evolution of Applying Human Rights Frameworks to Health


• Alicia Ely Yamin and Andrés Constantin


• 3. Framing Human Rights in Global Health Governance


• Benjamin Mason Meier and Lawrence O. Gostin


• 4. The Future of Global Governance for Health: Putting Rights at the Center of Sustainable Development


• Michel Sidibé, Helena Nygren-Krug, Bronwyn McBride, and Kent Buse


• PART II: WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION


• 5. Development of Human Rights Through WHO


• Benjamin Mason Meier and Florian Kastler


• 6. Mainstreaming Human Rights Across WHO


• Rebekah Thomas and Veronica Magar


• 7. The Future of Human Rights in WHO


• Flavia Bustreo, Veronica Magar, Rajat Khosla, Marcus Stahlhofer, and Rebekah Thomas


• PART III: INTER-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS


• 8. The United Nations Children's Fund: Implementing Human Rights for Child Health


• Benjamin Mason Meier, Mitra Motlagh, and Kumanan Rasanathan


• 9. The International Labor Organization: Human Rights to Health and Safety at Work


• Lee Swepston


• 10. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: Advancing Global Health Through Human Rights in Education and Science


• Audrey Chapman and Konstantinos Tararas


• 11. The United Nations Population Fund: An Evolving Human Rights Mission and Approach to Sexual and Reproductive Health


• Emilie Filmer-Wilson and Luis Mora


• 12. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Advancing the Right to Food to Promote Public Health


• Olivier de Schutter and Carolin Anthes


• 13. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS: With Communities for Human Rights


• Helena Nygren-Krug


• 14. The Future of Intergovernmental Partnerships for Health and Human Rights


• Sarah Hawkes, Julia Kreienkamp, and Kent Buse


• PART IV: GLOBAL ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE and GLOBAL HEALTH FUNDING AGENCIES


• 15. Integrating a Human Rights-Based Approach and the Right to Development into Global Governance for Health


• Stephen P. Marks


• 16. The World Bank: Contested Institutional Progress in Rights-Based Health Discourse


• Yusra Ribhi Shawar and Jennifer Prah Ruger


• 17. The World Trade Organization: Carving Out the Right to Health for Access to Medicines and Tobacco Control


• Suerie Moon and Thirukumaran Balasubramaniam


• 18. National Foreign Assistance Programs: Advancing Health-Related Human Rights Through Shared Obligations for Global Health


• Rachel Hammonds and Gorik Ooms


• 19. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria: Funding Basic Services and Meeting the Challenge of Rights-Based Programs


• Ralf Jürgens, Joanne Csete, Hyeyoung Lim, Susan Timberlake, and Matthew Smith


• 20. The Future of Multilateral Funding to Realize the Right to Health


• Gorik Ooms and Rachel Hammonds


• PART V: GLOBAL HEALTH IN HUMAN RIGHTS GOVERNANCE


• 21. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Putting the Right to Health on the Agenda


• Gillian MacNaughton and Mariah McGill


• 22. United National Special Procedures: Peopling Human Rights, Peopling Global Health


• Thérèse Murphy and Amrei Mueller


• 23. Human Rights Treaty Bodies: Monitoring, Interpreting, and Adjudicating Health-Related Human Rights


• Benjamin Mason Meier and Virginia Brás Gomes


• 24. The Future of Human Rights Accountability for Global Health under the Universal Periodic Review


• Judith R. Bueno de Mesquita and Dabney P. Evans


• PART VI: CONCLUSION AND AFTERWORD


• CONCLUSION


• 25. Comparative Analysis on Human Rights in Global Governance for Health


• Benjamin Mason Meier and Lawrence O. Gostin


• AFTERWORD


• Governance for Global Health and Human Rights in a Populist Age


• Benjamin Mason Meier


• Index

About the author

Benjamin Mason Meier is an Associate Professor of Global Health Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Scholar at Georgetown Law School's O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, and a consultant to international organizations, national governments, and nongovernmental organizations. Dr. Meier's interdisciplinary research-at the intersection of global health, international law, and public policy-examines the development, evolution, and application of human rights in global health.

Lawrence O. Gostin is University Professor (Georgetown University's highest academic rank), Founding O'Neill Chair in Global Health Law, and Director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Professor Gostin is the Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Public Health Law & Human Rights, and serves on expert WHO advisory committees. He is a Member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences, Council on Foreign Relations, and Hastings Center.

Summary

This book uncovers the ways in which human rights influence global efforts to promote the health of the most vulnerable in a globalizing world. It examines the evolving relationship between human rights, global governance, and public health, studying an expansive set of health challenges through a multi-sectoral array of global organizations.

Additional text

Having planted the seeds of the human rights-based approach in my role as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, I am delighted to see these contributing chapters sharing the enduring results of these efforts to advance global health. This volume will be vital to the continuing advancement of rights-based global governance to safeguard the health of the world's most vulnerable peoples. It makes clear the importance of translating human rights into institutional programming for public health. Providing the first systematic account of the implementation of health-related human rights through global governance, this volume will serve as a model for future research, practice, and advocacy to advance global health and human rights.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence O. (University Professor Gostin, Benjamin Mason Meier, Benjamin Mason (EDT)/ Gostin Meier, Mary Robinson
• Assisted by: Lawrence O Gostin (Editor), Lawrence O. Gostin (Editor), Lawrence O. (University Professor Gostin (Editor), Benjamin Mason Meier (Editor), Benjamin (Associate Professor of Global Health Policy Mason Meier (Editor), Mary Robinson (Foreword)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780190672683
• ISBN: 978-0-19-067268-3
• No. of pages: 616
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law