Human Rights Education Associates

A Human Rights Approach to Health Care in Conflict

Author

Katherine H. A. Footer; Leonard S. Rubenstein

Publisher

International Review of the Red Cross

Place of Publication

n.p.

Year of Publication

2013

Language

English

This paper focuses on the importance of a human rights approach to addressing these challenges, relying on the highest attainable standard of health as well as civil and political rights. In particular, we take the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights General Comment No. 14 (on Article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) as a normative framework from which states’ obligations to respect, protect and fulfill the right to health across all conflict settings can be further developed.
Training of Professional Groups
TP: Development workers
Right to health, Conflict environments, Human rights-based approach, Poverty / Economic Disadvantage

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