April 2006 | Volume 3 | Issue 4 | e133 | e147 Development efforts in rural Africa over the last few decades have achieved improvements in living conditions and in health. It has been argued that when such changes occur, there will be a subsequent reduction in birth rates, and experience in other parts of the developing world has tended to bear out this prediction. However, birth rates in rural ...

Abstract Unlike the current covid -19 pandemic, tobacco pandemic has not been adequately assessed through a human rights law perspective, despite fact that it raises compelling global health concerns. The ECtHR, in particular, holds lot of potential for promotion rights-based fight against tobacco, which can be further tapped. It is this article argues, on basis systematisation and critical app...