…4.3 on Article 18-Protection of the environment and the health of persons– emphasized the connection between tobacco control and the human right to health and to a healthy environment. The…
…the environmental impacts of tobacco, the FCTC COP remains the key place to address tobacco. As Arnold Kreilhuber, Director of the Europe Office of the UN Environment Programme reminded Parties…
…available here> At COP11, ASH is calling for concrete steps toward the tobacco endgame—policies that fast-track the end of the tobacco epidemic and safeguard health and the environment: Forward-looking tobacco…
…left before INC5-2 negotiations conclude; do what needs to be done to protect our collective right to a healthy environment and the highest attainable standard of health. ASH’s Key…
…healthy environment. Both health and a healthy environment are recognized human rights. The treaty text should explicitly recognize human rights and health treaties, not least the WHO Framework Convention on…
…promote the “right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health” as well as the “right to a healthy environment.” Read the complete…
…and our right to a healthy environment. Read the full report here> ASH NEWS ASH Campaign: Empower Women, End Tobacco Exploitation – Global NGOs Report to CEDAW on…
Tobacco Companies Violate Children’s Human Rights Every day, tobacco companies are violating children’s right to health, right to a healthy environment, and right to be free from racial discrimination. Governments…
…and Health. “Every day, tobacco companies are violating children’s right to health, right to a healthy environment, and right to be free from racial discrimination. Governments have a duty to…
…to build a healthy environment, free from trillions of cigarette butts and other harmful plastics. We must demand our right to a healthy environment, and governments have a duty, both…
…permission for a healthy environment, free from trillions of cigarette butts and other harmful plastics. We need to demand that right, and governments have a duty, both ethical and legal,…
…key goal was to promote and protect fundamental rights. These rights, like the right to health and the right to a healthy environment, have been codified at the highest level…
…to a healthy environment. We cannot address plastic pollution without addressing plastic production. We must turn off the tap on plastic and cap the amount of plastics being produced. Using…
…in the world. Countries have a legal obligation to protect their citizens’ right to health, right to life, and right to a healthy environment. Tobacco infringes on each of those…
…to ground these negotiations in human rights norms. Plastic pollution is a threat to many internationally agreed upon rights, including the rights to health, life, a healthy environment, and development….
…the world have taken bold steps to protect your right to health and right to a healthy environment, and ASH is proud to be involved in these life and environmental…
…rights, such as the right to health and right to a healthy environment, that have been recognized at the international, regional, and national levels. As such, we focus on 5…
…are touched by the epidemic of plastics pollution – the rights to health, life, a healthy environment, and development; of children, of women, etc. Note that there is no human…
The Stop Tobacco Pollution Alliance (STPA) is a global coalition of 100 public health organizations, listed below, who recognize the crucial intersection of tobacco control and environmental health. STPA will…
…year’s theme for World No Tobacco Day is “Tobacco: Threat to our environment.” Cigarettes have a negative impact on the environment – from growing the tobacco to throwing away the…
…can accelerate progress to protect our environment and our health at the same time. Read the Report – Tobacco and the Environment: Case Studies on Policies that Protect our Environment…
…duty to stop them. Ending combustible tobacco sales is essential to addressing health inequalities and promoting healthy human and economic development for future generations. The vision to end the combustible…
…(Professor of Health Economics, Institute for Health and Aging, UCSF). Slides are available here. Environmental Law as a Vehicle for Protection from Secondhand Smoke March 10, 2022 – Watch the…
…and the right to a healthy environment. We support the position taken by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in its General Comment No. 14, that the “failure…
…case brought by children against the government of the United States in order to protect their right to a healthy environment Tobacco and the Environment The Environmental Externalities of Tobacco…
