Author/Authors :
Williams، Carmel نويسنده Francois-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB), Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA , , Blaiklock، Alison نويسنده Department of Public Health, University of Otago Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand ,
Abstract :
Our commentary on Forman et al paper explores their thesis that right to health language can frame global
health policy responses. We examined human rights discourse in the outcome documents from three 2015 United
Nations (UN) summits and found rights-related terms are used in all three. However, a deeper examination of the
discourse finds the documents do not convey the obligations and entitlements of human rights and international
human rights law. The documents contain little that can be used to empower the participation of those already
left behind and to hold States and the private sector to account for their human rights duties. This is especially
worrying in a neoliberal era.
