Advancing Equality in the Enjoyment of the Right to Health - The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination as a Quasi-Global Tool

Abstract

States parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination must improve their public health systems by measurably advancing racial equality in law and in practice. As the world moves forward in understanding the structural dimension of racial discrimination in all areas of life, the General Recommendation No. 37 on racial discrimination in the enjoyment of the right to health can serve as a quasi-global instrument towards a more equitable and inclusive landscape for the realization of the right to health for all.

Keywords

• Global Health Governance
• World Health
• World Health Assembly (2003)
• World Health Assembly (2003)