Letter to NYC Council
Honorable Corey Johnson, Chair, Health Committee, New York City Council
City Hall, New York, NY 10007
April 25, 2017
Dear Mr. Johnson:
I am writing to support the proposed tobacco legislation that w...
International Labour Organization to Consider Severing Ties with the Tobacco Industry
Responding to Mounting Pressure, UN Agency Forced to Address Conflict of Interest
Washington, D.C.—March 14, 2017 – On Wednesday, March 15th, the International Labour Organization (ILO) will vote on whether to...
Human Rights Day 2016
December 10th is recognized worldwide as Human Rights Day. It commemorates the anniversary of the day that the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948. T...
ASH Environmental Webinar Recap
When we think of tobacco, a lot of health issues immediately spring to mind – lung cancer, throat cancer, cardiovascular disease, tooth decay, asthma. But tobacco products also wreak havoc on our environment, a...
A growing gulf in the terrain of tobacco control
The theme for World No Tobacco Day on May 31, an annual initiative of WHO and the Secretariat of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), is plain packaging of tobacco products. Plain packaging prohi...
June 2016: Matching Campaign
Help ASH participate in the 7th round of the tobacco treaty negotiations in India this November. Every donation made from June 1 - 30, 2016 will be matched by a private donor, up to $2,000.
Building on...
Liability: untapped potential in the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
ASH Policy Director Chris Bostic, Richard Daynard, and Tamar Lawrence-Samuel (Corporate Accountability International) shed some light on the untapped potential in the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
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Does Tobacco Violate Human Rights?
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Contact: Megan Arendt
Office: 202-659-4310
Email: arendtm@ash.org
Does Tobacco Violate Human Rights?
Inter-American Commission Ponders Question
WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 6, 2016...
WHO warns governments that Big Tobacco is undermining protocol to combat smuggling
The Secretariat for the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) recently sent the following Note Verbal to all Missions of Parties in Geneva to alert them to prevent interference from the tobacco ind...
New Global Anti-tobacco Leadership
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Email: arendtm@ash.org
New Global Anti-tobacco Leadership
After twelve years of success, ASH passes FCA baton to HealthBridge
WASHINGTON, D.C. – January 20,...
Statement from ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber
Making Priorities into our Reality
This year has been one filled with milestones for the public health and tobacco control communities.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), that will replace the Mille...
Human Rights Day 2015
December 10th is recognized worldwide as Human Rights Day. It commemorates the anniversary of the day that the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948. T...
Huge progress made thanks to court case against Dutch State
Dutch government draws up rules for contacts with tobacco industry
via Youth Smoking Prevention Foundation
Amsterdam, 9 November 2015 – The court in The Hague ruled against the Youth Smoking Prevention Founda...
ASH 2015 Tobacco Industry Monitoring Report Card
ASH’s Tobacco Industry Monitoring (TIM) program works to track and publicize tobacco industry behavior. Our TIM program stems from Article 5.3 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which o...
Human Rights Resources
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ASH Blog and Presentations
Danish Institute on Human Rights- Quit PMI
Hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Human Rights Day 2016
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Human Rights Violations
Could tobacco executives/corporations
be found guilty of human right violations?
A general view of participants during the 29th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council. 22 June 2015. UN Photo / Jean-M...
UN Officially Recognizes that Tobacco Makes the World Poorer
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UN Officially Recognizes that Tobacco Makes the World Poorer
Sustainable Development Goals Adopted at UN Summi...
Legal Events
The American Society of International Law ( ASIL), the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network ( ACS CAN), and ASH hosted:
Tobacco and International Law:
Evaluating and Enforcing the Framework Conventio...
On Our Way to Achieving the “Impossible”
When ASH first began its post-2015 UN development agenda campaign in 2013, it was perceived as nearly impossible to integrate tobacco control into the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), let alone the Fina...
International Smoke-free Air Successes
Many Americans view smoking, and secondhand smoke, as a problem that has mostly been solved, at least in the United States.
However, only half of all Americans are protected from exposure to secondhand smoke...
Tobacco & Human Rights in Latin America
An article written by ASH Staff Attorney Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy was recently published in the American Bar Association’s “International Law News.” The article discusses the growing problem of tobacco use in Latin...
We’re Almost There!
In the past two and half years, ASH has been working to ensure that tobacco control is included in the new UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These goals are being created to set countries’ development ag...
ASH participates in the World Conference on Tobacco or Health 2015
This week, several representatives of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) will be attending the World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Abu Dhabi. WCTOH is a five-day scientific conference where presenters hig...
Criminal Liability and Human Rights Violations
Tobacco products kill more people than alcohol, AIDS, car accidents, illegal drugs, murders and suicides combined. Left unchecked, tobacco use will kill 1 billion people this century. As one state Supreme Court...
