TAILIEUCHUNG - MONITORING WOMEN'S RIGHT TO HEALTH UNDER THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

We have the power to explore the planets and walk the moon. We have the power to coax green from the deserts. We have the power to map the human genome. Yet in the year 2005, in millions of communities in every corner of the globe, people are suffering because those with political power have failed to meet their most basic responsibilities. That failure is seen in the crisis of local health systems that do not work, that exclude the poor, abuse and marginalize women, sow distrust and feed corruption. The result is societies marked by profound insecurity, by deep and growing inequities, and by the. | MONITORING WOMEN S RIGHT TO HEALTH UNDER THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS Audrey R. Chapman Introduction Several major international human rights instruments recognize the right to health care and a more comprehensive right to health. The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights the principal standard by which human rights are identified today states that everyone has a right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family including food clothing housing and medical care and necessary social services . . . - 1 Article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights Economic Covenant intended to make more specific and binding the obligations of governments to protect the economic social and cultural rights enumerated in the Universal Declaration recognizes the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and to that end mandates that States Parties the countries which have ratified or acceded to the Covenant undertake the following steps to achieve its full realization a The provision for the reduction of the stillbirth-rate and of infant mortality and for the healthy development of the child b The improvement of all aspects of environmental and industrial hygiene . Director Science and Human Rights Program Directorate for Science and Policy Programs American Association for the Advancement of Science 1333 H Street . Washington . 20005 202 32 6790. 1. Universal Declaration of Human Rights infra doc. biblio. art 25 1 . 1157 1158 The American University Law Review Vol. 44 1157 c The prevention treatment and control of epidemic endemic occupational and other diseases d The creation of conditions which would assure to all medical service and medical attention in the event of As of 30 June 1994 129 countties had ratified or acceded to this Covenant3 While the International Covenant on

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