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Global Health Law:Defining the Field
Full text linkThis Introductory chapter attempts define the scope and normative foundations of global health law as an emerging field in international law. The author perceives global health law as a field consisting of a limited set of binding and non-binding instruments adopted in the framework of the World Health Organization (WHO), in an interaction with both hard and soft law standards recognized in other branches of international law, including human rights law, international humanitarian law, international environmental law, international trade, property and investment law. As such, global health law reflects an intricate patchwork of hard and soft law standards. The author asserts that human rights, given their normative value, have the potential to play an important role in giving expression to the normative foundations of global health law. Furthermore, the author tentatively discusses the emergence of a number of general principles in global health law, including health capability, equity, and solidarity
Is there a European human rights approach to tobacco control?
Full text linkThis chapter critically assesses the ways in which both the Council of Europe and the EU have engaged with the interface between human rights and tobacco control, looking at laws and policies relevant to tobacco use and exposure to second-hand smoke (SHS). Its overarching objective is to explore whether a human rights approach to tobacco control exists in Europe
Conclusions
Full text linkThe aim of this book has been to critically analyse the interface betweenhuman rights and tobacco control. As evidenced by a vast amount of scientificresearch, tobacco has a devastating impact on the lives, health and well-beingof many individuals in society. The production, sale and consumption oftobacco therefore raise important questions from the perspective of humanrights
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