The Right to Health and Cessation
The marketing and sale of tobacco products violate the right to health and life of all people globally
ICTC is the lead author of this Cessation Report with ASH on the importance of incorporating cessation ...
WCTOH – Tobacco and Human Rights
Written by Laurent Huber, Executive Director of Action on Smoking & Health and WCTOH Advisory Board Member
25 February 2021
In addition to being a Development challenge, the tobacco epidemic is also i...
ASH’s Accomplishments in 2020
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ASH’s work is based on the principle that the behavior of the tobacco industry, marketing and selling lethal and addictive products, violates human rights. As such, we carry out 4 key areas of work:
(1) Phasi...
Human Rights Day 2020
Happy Human Rights Day! December 10th is International Human Rights Day, in observation of the day that the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This landmark document s...
ASH Live: Human Rights & Cessation
ASH recently co-authored this BMJ Tobacco Control article on using human rights tools to strengthen cessation. To bring this new approach to more people, we are hosting a short Facebook Live with our Managing A...
A Holistic Approach to Human Rights and the Tobacco Epidemic
ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber, Policy Director Chris Bostic, and Managing Attorney Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy published an article in the Oxford University Press: Nicotine & Tobacco Research, Volume 22, Iss...
Carolyn Dresler – Webinar on Coronavirus, Human Rights & Tobacco
ASH Webinar on Coronavirus, Human Rights and Tobacco
April 2, 2020
Statement from Carolyn Dresler, MD, MPA
Thank you for joining our webinar discussion on this important topic.
A question that is pertinen...
ASH’s Human Rights Work in Japan
Laurent Huber speaking at the plenary session
ASH has been working tirelessly to use human rights tools to advance health around the world. Recently, we were invited to bring this work to Japan.
While Ja...
15 Organizations Report to the UN Human Rights Council that the U.S. Fails to Protect the Right to Health
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Read the UPR Submission Here
WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 3, 2019 – Today, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), in partnership with 14 civil...
Dossier: Tobacco’s big child labour problem
The precise number of children involved in the tobacco industry is unknown but is thought to be in the tens of millions. More than 152m children are engaged in labour, 71 per cent of them in agriculture, ra...
Global Forum on Human Rights and a Tobacco-Free World
GLOBAL FORUM ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND A TOBACCO-FREE WORLD 2019
ASH and our colleagues at Romania 2035 Tobacco-Free Generation Initiative, and the European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention, along with ...
Bucharest Declaration on Human Rights and a Tobacco-Free Europe
This Resolution came out of discussions that began at the Global Forum on Human Rights and a Tobacco-Free World on March 26, 2019 in Bucharest, Romania and continued at the annual European Network for Smoking a...
Do industries that kill more people than they employ have a right to exist?
A new study outlines why the tobacco and coal industries warrant "corporate death sentences."
ROBBY BERMAN
24 February, 2019
Read on BigThink.com...
Global Forum on Human Rights and a Tobacco-Free World
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis speaking at the Forum
This unique and historic event brought together global leaders in human rights and public health to discuss ways to advance worldwide efforts to comb...
Social Media
Below are images and videos for use on social media.
Please use them to share your support for addressing tobacco control through a human rights lens by posting these resources and tagging ASH on Twitter, In...
No Legal Right to Smoke
In our work, we spend a lot of time arguing for people’s rights. The right to be free from targeted advertising by the tobacco industry. The right to access cessation products. The right to be free from sec...
History of the Human Rights and Tobacco Control Network (HRTCN)
The Human Rights Tobacco Control Network (HRTCN) began at a first international meeting, held in Lausanne, Switzerland in November 2008 with a small cohort of approximately 20 partners from around the world. Th...
The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is the world’s first public health treaty. It was negotiated as the world's response to the global tobacco epidemic. The FCTC was completed in 2003, and ...
Parallel issues
There are numerous other issues that provide legal or political precedent that can be applied to tobacco and human rights.
Environment2018- The Business and Human Rights Resource Center tracked 14 climate l...
Learning resources
There are many tools to assist advocates in becoming more well-versed in the area of human rights. Below are some helpful resources.
ASH put together this resource as a guide for advocates that would like t...
Academic articles
This is a non-exhaustive list of scholarly writings on the subjects of tobacco control and human rights.
2008- Leslie London
A human rights approach to health is critical to address growing global health...
Using Human Rights Arguments in Litigation
Some advocates have begun using human rights arguments in litigation against the tobacco industry.
Below are several cases relevant to human rights, but this list is far from exhaustive of all tobacco litig...
Regional Mechanisms
In addition to global mechanisms and international human rights treaty bodies, there are several regional bodies. They are responsible for the human rights in their respective regions, and therefore, can be v...
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...