ASH (and Partner) Treaty Reporting
This page contains submitted and upcoming civil society reports organized by international human rights treaty body.
ASH and our partners have followed the lead of the Human Rights and Tobacco Contro...
International Human Rights Treaty Bodies
There are nine core international human rights treaties, and many of these treaties pertain to tobacco control.
Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, all UN Member States h...
The Human Rights Council and Universal Periodic Review
The Human Rights Council (HRC) is a United Nations (UN) body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world. While there have been a limited number of resolutions that are directly rele...
Hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)
On April 5, 2016, Action on Smoking and Health and two of our partner organizations, Fundación InterAmericana del Corazón Argentina and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, will present t...
Argentine Supreme Court upholds tobacco marketing ban
November 3, 2015
The Supreme Court of Argentina protected the right to health over the tobacco industry’s interests
The high court rejected a lawsuit filed by Nobleza Piccardo (British American To...