Human Rights and the Tobacco Industry: An Unsuitable Alliance

Toebes, Brigit

doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2018.03

Human Rights and the Tobacco Industry: An Unsuitable Alliance

Document Type : Letter to Editor

Author

Brigit Toebes

Global Health Law Groningen Research Centre, Department of Transboundary Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

10.15171/ijhpm.2018.03

Keywords

Tobacco Industry

Human Rights

Responsibility to Respect

Right to Health

Right to Life

Subjects

Health Equity

Dear Editor,

The United Nations (UN), non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and human rights experts have increasingly insisted on the human rights responsibilities of non-state actors including private businesses and multinational corporations... (Read more...)

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