scholarly journals Biosecurity, Investor-State Dispute Settlement and Corporatogenic Climate Change: A Challenge for Australian Public Health Regulation and Human Rights

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jodie Campbell ◽  
Christopher Law ◽  
Sam Durant ◽  
Tom Faunce
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Public Health Regulation

The right to health supports global public health

2021 ◽  
pp. 273-290
Author(s):  
Carmel Williams ◽  
Alison Blaiklock ◽  
Paul Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Health Practice ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Supportive Relationship ◽  
The Right ◽  
Overseas Development

In this chapter, we explain how human rights, including the right to health, are important for global public health. We introduce key human rights concepts and principles, and illustrate three approaches to the right to health: judicial, policy, and empowerment. We propose that human rights and public health are natural allies with a complementary and supportive relationship. We describe the meaning of the right to the highest attainable standard of health and its place in international, regional, and national laws. We outline ten key elements of the right to health and how the right can be operationalized in public health practice. We demonstrate this with two case studies of critically important global public health issues—climate change and children’s health, and overseas development assistance—as well as one of an emerging challenge in health, the digitization of health through Big Data.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 2-15
Author(s):  
Simon Chesterman ◽  
Hisashi Owada ◽  
Ben Saul
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Forced Displacement ◽  
International Crimes ◽  
Persistent Poverty

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the growing interest in international law in the Asia and Pacific regions, which has been driven by threats as well as opportunities. On the threat side are transnational challenges such as climate change, environmental harms, forced displacement, persistent poverty, human rights violations and international crimes, and terrorism. Meanwhile, opportunities include economic integration, human development, and the proliferation of specialized branches of law as well as dispute settlement mechanisms and institutions. No book has so far covered how Asian and Pacific states as a whole participate in each of the main specialized branches of international law; individually contribute to the making and application of international law on the international plane; and individually implement international law in their national legal systems. This book aims to fill these significant gaps in professional and scholarly knowledge.

Human Rights and Climate Change

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siobhan McInerney-Lankford ◽  
Mac Darrow ◽  
Lavanya Rajamani
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights
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