Book chapter
Human Rights Advocacy in Global Health
Foundations of Global Health & Human Rights
09 Jul 2020
Abstract
This chapter presents an overview of health and human rights advocacy and describes a broad framework and the diverse strategies used by human rights advocates to advance their goals. Based upon documenting abuses, raising awareness, building coalitions, and engaging communities, human rights advocacy seeks to ensure that government laws, policies, and practices respect, protect, and fulfill the right to health of all. These rights arguments and advocacy strategies, first developed in response to the HIV epidemic, have become the basis for broader right to health campaigns. Health-related human rights advocacy, beyond specific strategies, seeks to elevate the voices of people affected by human rights violations, analyze structural barriers, and identify obligations and responsibilities. Focusing on the strategies and tools that human rights advocates use in documenting rights abuses, raising awareness, and seeking change, it is necessary to examine new advocacy partnerships and approaches for evaluating advocacy efforts.
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Details
- Title
- Human Rights Advocacy in Global Health
- Creators
- Joseph J AmonEric Friedman
- Publication Details
- Foundations of Global Health & Human Rights
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; New York
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Community Health and Prevention
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85090015092
- Other Identifier
- 991021895676304721