Subject Guide
Health and Human Rights
"Defining a right to health in international law has remained difficult and has centered on the right of access to adequate health care. Environmental and occupational hazards and the extent of the obligations governments owe to their citizens or others beyond their borders to cooperate in global goals for optimizing health continue to generate issues for international legal initiatives for health." -- GU Law Center
- Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural RightsO.A.S. Treaty Series No. 69 (1988), entered into force November 16, 1999.
- African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights1520 UNTS 217.
Available also via HeinOnline (Treaties and Agreements Library). - Convention on the Rights of the Child(CRC) Nov. 20, 1989, 1577 U.N.T.S. 3; 28 I.L.M.1456 (1989)
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights993 UNTS 3.
Available online through the United Nations Treaty Collection and via HeinOnline (Treaties and Agreements Library). - Universal Declaration of Human RightsGA Res. 217A (III), UN Doc A/810 at 71 (1948).
via HeinOnline (Treaties and Agreements Library).
