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Human Rights Day 2016

December 7, 2016

…in 1948. The UDHR and other human rights treaties, both international and regional, protect myriad rights around the world, including the rights of women and children, and the right to…

Does Tobacco Violate Human Rights?

April 5, 2016

…Panelists focused in particular on the corruptive practices of the tobacco industry in pushing cigarettes, which kill half of long term users, and advertising that is often aimed at women,…

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Hearing

April 5, 2016

…perception about tobacco. The tobacco industry markets and sells products that they know to be deadly. In fact, they intentionally advertise to women, young people, children and vulnerable groups such…

Human Rights Day 2015

December 8, 2015

…in 1948. The UDHR and other human rights treaties, both international and regional, protect myriad rights around the world, including the rights of women and children, and the right to…

Human Rights Resources

November 1, 2015

…O’Neill Institute- Global Tobacco Control Relevant Treaties and Resolutions International Treaties Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Convention on the Rights of the Child…

International Day of the Girl

October 8, 2015

…more here>. Big tobacco specifically targets women and girls with advertising that attempts to show smoking as glamorous and to portray smokers as independent, successful, and thin. Women often smoke…

Why we need to tax tobacco

July 15, 2015

…significant reductions in the estimated prevalence of daily smoking observed at the global level for both men and women since 1980, the actual number of smokers has increased significantly over…

Tobacco & Human Rights in Latin America

June 2, 2015

…rights court, could be based on the violation of the right to health and could include violations of other rights such as the right to life, women’s rights and child…

‘Ban E-cigarette use indoors,’ says WHO

August 26, 2014

…smokers quit – until there is firm evidence to support this. WHO experts warn the products might pose a threat to adolescents and the foetuses of pregnant women. Read more>…

Why Read the ASH Report?

June 10, 2014

…as it has been over five decades since more than ½ of the men and a 1/3 of the women in the US smoked. 50 years ago, smoking was everywhere,…

Action Review: 1st Quarter Edition 2014

April 4, 2014

…the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 58: The MDGs, Post-2015 and Beijing+20 – regional perspective series (North America and Europe) Programme. She highlighted the significant impact of tobacco…

Smoking Proves Hard to Shake Among the Poor

March 25, 2014

…and a third of women smoked. But as evidence of smoking’s deadly consequences has accumulated, the broad patterns of use by class have shifted: Smoking, the leading cause of preventable…

Big Tobacco Abuses Trade Rules

December 13, 2013

…malaria and tuberculosis combined, according to the World Health Organization. Alarmed about rising smoking rates among young women, Namibia, in southern Africa, passed a tobacco control law in 2010 but…

Public Health Groups Agree: Carve Tobacco Out of Trade

December 5, 2013

…and Territorial Health Organizations Boston Women’s Health Book Collective/Our Bodies Ourselves California Conference of Local Health Officers (CCLHO) California Public Health Association-North Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health…

Will Obama Fast-Track the Trans-Pacific Partnership?

October 10, 2013

…women, on the environment, on the Internet.’ In a rousing speech, United States Congressional Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren warned of the dangers of the Trans-Pacific Partnership: ‘For big corporations, trade…

Live at the UN: Days 3 & 4

September 26, 2013

…control, as NCDs account for 2/3 of the world’s annual deaths. But, we must ensure that health goals are at the forefront of the world’s agenda, alongside women’s rights, the…

The Tobacco Problem in U.S. Trade

September 6, 2013

…Those countries were unprepared for intensive marketing by the tobacco industry, particularly to women and youth. According to a U.S. Government Accountability Office report, after multinational tobacco companies entered South…

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