Carmel Williams
Francois-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB), Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan, School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA | School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
[ 1 ] - Human Rights Discourse in the Sustainable Development Agenda Avoids Obligations and Entitlements; Comment on “Rights Language in the Sustainable Development Agenda: Has Right to Health Discourse and Norms Shaped Health Goals?”
Our commentary on Forman et al paper explores their thesis that right to health language can frame global health policy responses. We examined human rights discourse in the outcome documents from three 2015 United Nations (UN) summits and found rights-related terms are used in all three. However, a deeper examination of the discourse finds the documents do not convey the obligations and entitle...
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