…People’s right to health serves as one of the human rights frameworks that ASH promotes through its work on tobacco control. Beatriz Champagne, CLAS; Angeline Morgado, ASH; Diego Rodríguez, OMIS…
…#CEDAW91 is reviewing how #Ireland protects #womensrights. Tobacco companies violate women’s human right to life, right to health and right to be free from discrimination by running targeted media campaigns…
…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…
…citizens’ human rights. Smoking negatively impacts several human rights that are legally protected in binding UN human rights treaties, such as the right to life, right to health, right to…
…Empower Women, End Tobacco Exploitation in Luxembourg Blog: Women’s Rights Movement’s Impact on Tobacco Control Guest Blog: The Basic Right to Breathe At Home Air Free of Neighbors’ Tobacco Smoke:…
…The federal court in Washington DC has already criticized this position in 2006 and presented it as misleading. No one has the right to make use of any apartment in…
…500 public health, human rights, consumer rights, women’s and children’s rights organizations and environmental activists from over 100 countries, rallying to support the development of the strongest, evidence-based, and most…
…insecticide (sounds like something we want inside us, right?). Over the decades, the tobacco industry has spent huge sums figuring out how to chemically make cigarettes more addictive. That’s why…
…rights arguments into your work tobacco policy work. The Human Rights Day declaration defines the indivisible and interdependent rights which everyone is entitled to as a human being. Tobacco, and…
…the universal protection of human rights. This new report exposes how Switzerland is failing to adequately protect human rights. Read the Report: Human Rights Violations by Tobacco Multinationals in Switzerland…
…to CEDAW on how tobacco companies violate women’s human rights in Canada, Chile, Japan, and New Zealand. Tobacco companies violate women’s human right to life, right to health and right…
…that has smoked a cigarette, had one too many shots of alcohol, or used some other form of substance to cope with the stresses of daily life. With the Federal…
…Christopher Leung of Leung Law PLLC in their second lawsuit against the FDA, express deep concern with the additional delay of the life-saving rule to ban menthol in cigarettes. Read…
…a violation of the human right to health. Governments have an obligation to stop third parties such as tobacco companies from violating the rights of their citizens. We remind you…
…rights, such as the right to health, that have been recognized at the highest level through international, regional, and national legal instruments. As such, we focus on 4 key areas…
…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…
…Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which includes the obligation to promote health…
…deployed by the tobacco industry against them. It is particularly important for France to respect its international commitments. This means protecting women’s fundamental rights, in particular their right to life…
…since I last smoked and now I have dedicated my life to helping others quit….when they are ready. I feel it’s important to share with others the methods and comments…
…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…
…human rights in all major UN Human Rights treaties. This year, the United Nations General Assembly formally recognized the right to a healthy environment, a right that is unfortunately highly…
…your right to breathe clean air and live a smoke-free life. Now, we’re taking it a step further with your support. Please join our movement by making a donation today….
…right to profit. Perhaps we should be thinking of human rights as the basic framework for discussion. As a human rights and public health lawyer, this is the only way…
…Rights of the Child (UN CRC) issued bold and concise recommendations for the German government to protect children from the tobacco industry violating their rights. The UN CRC recommends that…
…a physician who authored the seminal paper in Human Rights Quarterly on the connection between tobacco and human rights, a connection which has shaped our work.” While the Koop award…
