TY - JOUR ID - 3422 TI - Human Rights Treaties Are an Important Part of the “International Health Instrumentariam”; Comment on “The Legal Strength of International Health Instruments - What It Brings to Global Health Governance?” JO - International Journal of Health Policy and Management JA - IJHPM LA - en SN - AU - Forman, Lisa AD - Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 7 IS - 5 SP - 467 EP - 469 KW - Human Rights KW - International Law KW - Right to Health KW - Global Health DO - 10.15171/ijhpm.2017.109 N2 - In their commentary, Haik Nikogosian and Ilona Kickbusch argue for the necessity of new binding international legal instruments for health to address complex health determinants and offer a cogent analysis of the implications of such treaties for future global health governance. Yet in doing so they pay no attention to the existing instrumentarium of international legally binding treaties relevant to health, in the form of human rights treaties. International human rights law has entrenched individual entitlements and state obligations in relation to individual and public health through iterative human rights treaties since 1946. These treaties offer normative specificity, institutional monitoring and the possibility of enforcement and accountability. If we are to build a new ‘international health instrumentariam’ we should not ignore existing and important tools that can assist in this endeavor. UR - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3422.html L1 - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3422_71b860a04763d07ddcc20a20e3674092.pdf ER -