Human Rights in Global Health

Institutions matter for the advancement of human rights in global health. Given the dramatic development of human rights under international law and the parallel proliferation of global institutions for public health, there arises an imperative to understand the implementation of human rights through global health governance. This volume examines the evolving relationship between human rights, global governance, and public health, studying an expansive set of health challenges through a multi-sectoral array of global organizations. To analyze the structural determinants of rights-based governance, the organizations in this volume include those international bureaucracies that implement human rights in ways that influence public health in a globalizing world. This volume brings together leading health and human rights scholars and practitioners from academia, non-governmental organizations, and the United Nations system. They explore the foundations of human rights as a normative framework for global health governance, the mandate of the World Health Organization to pursue a human rights-based approach to health, the role of inter-governmental organizations across a range of health-related human rights, the influence of rights-based economic governance on public health, and the focus on global health among institutions of human rights governance. Contributing chapters each map the distinct human rights efforts within a specific institution of global governance for health. Through the comparative institutional analysis in this volume, the contributing authors examine institutional dynamics to operationalize human rights in organizational policies, programs, and practices and assess institutional factors that facilitate or inhibit human rights mainstreaming for global health advancement.

Benjamin Mason Meier is an Associate Professor of Global Health Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Scholar at Georgetown Law School's O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, and a consultant to international organizations, national governments, and nongovernmental organizations. Dr. Meier's interdisciplinary research-at the intersection of global health, international law, and public policy-examines the development, evolution, and application of human rights in global health.
Lawrence O. Gostin is University Professor (Georgetown University's highest academic rank), Founding O'Neill Chair in Global Health Law, and Director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Professor Gostin is the Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Public Health Law & Human Rights, and serves on expert WHO advisory committees. He is a Member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences, Council on Foreign Relations, and Hastings Center.

- FOREWORD
- Human Rights in Global Health Governance
- Mary Robinson
- PREFACE
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION
- Responding to the Public Health Harms of a Globalizing World through Human Rights in Global Governance
- Benjamin Mason Meier and Lawrence O. Gostin
- PART I: HUMAN RIGHTS IN GLOBAL HEALTH
- 1. The Origins of Human Rights in Global Health
- Lawrence O. Gostin and Benjamin Mason Meier
- 2. The Evolution of Applying Human Rights Frameworks to Health
- Alicia Ely Yamin and Andrés Constantin
- 3. Framing Human Rights in Global Health Governance
- Benjamin Mason Meier and Lawrence O. Gostin
- 4. The Future of Global Governance for Health: Putting Rights at the Center of Sustainable Development
- Michel Sidibé, Helena Nygren-Krug, Bronwyn McBride, and Kent Buse
- PART II: WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
- 5. Development of Human Rights Through WHO
- Benjamin Mason Meier and Florian Kastler
- 6. Mainstreaming Human Rights Across WHO
- Rebekah Thomas and Veronica Magar
- 7. The Future of Human Rights in WHO
- Flavia Bustreo, Veronica Magar, Rajat Khosla, Marcus Stahlhofer, and Rebekah Thomas
- PART III: INTER-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
- 8. The United Nations Children's Fund: Implementing Human Rights for Child Health
- Benjamin Mason Meier, Mitra Motlagh, and Kumanan Rasanathan
- 9. The International Labor Organization: Human Rights to Health and Safety at Work
- Lee Swepston
- 10. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: Advancing Global Health Through Human Rights in Education and Science
- Audrey Chapman and Konstantinos Tararas
- 11. The United Nations Population Fund: An Evolving Human Rights Mission and Approach to Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Emilie Filmer-Wilson and Luis Mora
- 12. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Advancing the Right to Food to Promote Public Health
- Olivier de Schutter and Carolin Anthes
- 13. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS: With Communities for Human Rights
- Helena Nygren-Krug
- 14. The Future of Intergovernmental Partnerships for Health and Human Rights
- Sarah Hawkes, Julia Kreienkamp, and Kent Buse
- PART IV: GLOBAL ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE and GLOBAL HEALTH FUNDING AGENCIES
- 15. Integrating a Human Rights-Based Approach and the Right to Development into Global Governance for Health
- Stephen P. Marks
- 16. The World Bank: Contested Institutional Progress in Rights-Based Health Discourse
- Yusra Ribhi Shawar and Jennifer Prah Ruger
- 17. The World Trade Organization: Carving Out the Right to Health for Access to Medicines and Tobacco Control
- Suerie Moon and Thirukumaran Balasubramaniam
- 18. National Foreign Assistance Programs: Advancing Health-Related Human Rights Through Shared Obligations for Global Health
- Rachel Hammonds and Gorik Ooms
- 19. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria: Funding Basic Services and Meeting the Challenge of Rights-Based Programs
- Ralf Jürgens, Joanne Csete, Hyeyoung Lim, Susan Timberlake, and Matthew Smith
- 20. The Future of Multilateral Funding to Realize the Right to Health
- Gorik Ooms and Rachel Hammonds
- PART V: GLOBAL HEALTH IN HUMAN RIGHTS GOVERNANCE
- 21. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Putting the Right to Health on the Agenda
- Gillian MacNaughton and Mariah McGill
- 22. United National Special Procedures: Peopling Human Rights, Peopling Global Health
- Thérèse Murphy and Amrei Mueller
- 23. Human Rights Treaty Bodies: Monitoring, Interpreting, and Adjudicating Health-Related Human Rights
- Benjamin Mason Meier and Virginia Brás Gomes
- 24. The Future of Human Rights Accountability for Global Health under the Universal Periodic Review
- Judith R. Bueno de Mesquita and Dabney P. Evans
- PART VI: CONCLUSION AND AFTERWORD
- CONCLUSION
- 25. Comparative Analysis on Human Rights in Global Governance for Health
- Benjamin Mason Meier and Lawrence O. Gostin
- AFTERWORD
- Governance for Global Health and Human Rights in a Populist Age
- Benjamin Mason Meier
- Index