Pemberantasan Rabies di Indonesia sebagai Upaya Mewujudkan Right to Life, Right to Health

The child’s right to life and health

This chapter is guided by the right to life, a universal human rights principle enshrined in all international human rights instruments, including the CRC. Article 6 recognizes that every child has the right to life, survival and development. This provision has been interpreted to mean that measures taken by the State should be “of a positive nature and thus designed to protect life, including ...

Integrality: life principle and right to health.

OBJECTIVE To understand the health integrality in the daily work of Family Health Strategy (FHS) and its concept according to the managers in Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil. METHODOLOGY This is a multiple case study of holistic and qualitative approach based on the Quotidian Comprehensive Sociology. The subjects were workers of the Family Health Strategy teams, the support team an...

Participation and the right to health: lessons from Indonesia.

The right to participation is the "the right of rights"--the basic right of people to have a say in how decisions that affect their lives are made. All legally binding international human rights treaties explicitly recognize the essential role of participation in realizing fundamental human rights. While the substance of the human right to health has been extensively developed, the right to par...

Euthanasia: Right to life vs right to die

The Right to Life in Peace: An Essential Condition for Realizing the Right to Health.

Since 2008, the UN Human Rights Council has been working on a declaration related to the right to peace. The Council has established an Open-Ended Working Group, which is refining the draft declaration. This paper discusses the relationship between the right to health and the right to life in peace; we argue that peace and the conditions that support peace are essential to realize the right to ...