WHO, WHO FCTC & UNEP Webinar
Fighting tobacco product waste: Holding tobacco industry accountable for its environmental footprint
June 2, 2022 - Tobacco control experts, including ASH's Executive Director Laurent Huber, and environmental ...
Going Beyond the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: An Environmental Scan
This paper was researched and written for Health Canada, the national health ministry, in order to identify implemented and potential policies that go beyond the minimum obligations of the WHO tobacco treaty, t...
The Right to Health and Cessation
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Opposing Goals: The Tobacco Industry vs. Public Health
Author: Vivienne Brandt, ASH Policy and Communications Intern
In 2003, the World Health Organization concluded negotiations of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which reaffirmed the right o...
Dr. Adriana Blanco Marquizo – Webinar on Tobacco Endgame in Spain
ASH Webinar on Tobacco Endgame in Spain
February 11, 2021
Statement from Dr. Adriana Blanco Marquizo, Head of the Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)
Thank you for the o...
Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy – Webinar on WHO FCTC Article 19: Using the Judicial System to Fight Tobacco
ASH Webinar on WHO FCTC Article 19: Using the Judicial System to Fight Tobacco
November 10, 2020
Statement from Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy, Managing Attorney at ASH
Article 19: How it has been utilized, how...
ASH at the 2019 Human Rights Council
ASH staff recently spent time in Geneva, Switzerland to attend the 41st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The UN Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations sy...
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...
Using Human Rights Arguments in Litigation
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In memoriam of Dr. Caleb Otto
It is with great sadness that we heard of the passing of our friend, mentor and public health hero, Dr. Caleb Otto, former Ambassador from Palau to the United Nations.
Dr. Otto not only did not think we were...
ASH: The Big Picture
2017 has been a very exciting year at ASH. We celebrated our 50th anniversary, announced our pivot away from “tobacco control” and towards “cigarette free” and earned numerous victories across each of our progr...
Legal Victories in International Tobacco Control 2014
Philip Morris International was fined in Brazil for targeting youth
The consumer protection agency from the Brazilian state of São Paulo has fined Philip Morris over $480,000. The agency acted after a fo...
