There are numerous other issues that provide legal or political precedent that can be applied to tobacco and human rights.
Environment
Localizing the Paris Agreement: A Guide for Local Government Action in Support of the U.S. Nationally Determined Contribution
This guide explains how local governments can implement international environmenal agreements. Parallels can be drawn to human rights agreements that impact tobacco control.
Read the guide here
Juliana v. U.S.
2015 – Federal civil case brought by children against the government of the United States in order to protect their right to a healthy environment Read more…
Cleaning Up the Mess: Children's Rights and Environmental Protection
A report discussing how the Committee on the Rights of the Child can tae action to help protect the environmental human rights of children Read more…
Climate Litigation against Companies: An Overview of Legal Arguments
By early 2018, we tracked 14 climate lawsuits against fossil fuel companies around the world. Our 2018 Corporate Legal Accountability Annual Briefing Turning up the heat: Corporate legal accountability for climate change provides an in-depth analysis of these lawsuits and examines the opportunities and challenges for bringing such litigation. This briefing is intended to provide an overview of the specific legal arguments that lawyers have used to hold corporations accountable for climate harms.
Many of these arguments could be used for tobacco litigation as well. Read the document here
Tobacco and the Environment
The environmental externalities of tobacco manufacturing: A review of tobacco industry reporting
United Nations
Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of NCDs
2013 – The NCD GAP includes a human rights based approach to addressing NCDs. There are several references to human rights and the right to health throughout the document. Read it here.
Political declaration of the third high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases
2018 – The final document of the UN high level meeting on NCD’s contains several references to human rights, including a reference to the right to health in section 3. Read it here.
Ethics
The ethical imperative to treat NCDs during research in Africa
2019- Mzombwe, et al- As the rising prevalence and life-threatening consequences of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Africa have become more obvious, so too has the fact that many African health systems are ill-equipped to meet the health-care needs of local communities affected by NCDs. Read more
Food Marketing
A Child Rights Based Approach to Food Marketing
A Child Rights-Based Approach to Food Marketing: A Guide for Policy Makers offers a legal analysis that links
the WHO Recommendations with a human rights framework, particularly the Convention on the Rights
of the Child. In this analysis, the CRC provides the foundation for a child rights-based approach to ending
childhood obesity and the prevention of non-communicable diseases. Read it here
Beijing +25 Platform for Action
NGO Guidance for National Parallel Reports
In preparation for Beijing + 25 in 2020, NGOs and civil society stakeholders must have their own
independent process to report on progress made, challenges and recommendations. The purpose
of these NGO Guidelines for Parallel Reports is to provide a common template for NGOs to use
for country (city or state) reports. NGOs should adapt it to suit their local contexts and feel free to
change it as needed. Although many questions are drawn from UN Women’s official Guidelines
for governments, these are adapted to reflect NGO and civil society perspectives. Read it here
