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 & 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
Benjamin Mason Meier is Associate Professor of Global Health Policy
and Zachary Taylor Smith Distinguished Professor of Public Policy
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Lawrence O. Gostin is University Professor, Founding O'Neill Chair
in Global Health Law, and Director of the O'Neill Institute for
National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University.
"This volume will be vital to the continuing advancement of
rights-based global governance to safeguard the health of the
world's most vulnerable... 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."
(From the Foreword)
Mary Robinson
Former President of Ireland (1990-1997); United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002)
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