Background on Human Rights Obligations and Access to Medicine
I. Academic Papers
- Access to Anti-Retroviral Drugs as a Component of the Right to Health-application in Nigeria
- Amnesty International Guide on the African Commission
- Enforcing Right to Health
- Human Rights Approach to Intellectual Property Rights
- Promoting Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Africa
- Right to Health under the African Charter
- Statement from Seminar on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights in the African Charter
- The Realization of Access to HIV and AIDS-related Medicines in Southern African Countries
- The Right to Health - Iain Byrne
II. African Rights-Based Legal InstrumentsA. African Case Law
- Abuja Declaration
- African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Brazzaville Commitment
- Gaborone Declaration
- Maseru Declaration
- Southern African Development Community Protocol on Health
III. ARIPO Documents
IV. Inter-American Legal Materials
- (Additional) Protocol of San Salvador - on ESCRs
- Ache People v. Paraguay (IACHR)
- Alban Cornejo et al. v. Ecuador (IACtHR)(2007)
- American Convention on Human Rights
- American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man
- Case of the “Street Children” (Villagran-Morales et al.) v. Guatemala-Cancado Opinion (IACtHR)
- Case of the Yakye Axa Indigenous Community v. Paraguay (IACtHR)
- Coulter et al. v. Brazil (IACHR)
- Jorge Odir Miranda Cortez et al. v. El Salvador (IACHR)
- Juan Hernandez v. Guatemala (IACHR)
- Juvenile Reeducation Institute v. Paraguay (IACtHR)
- Luis Rolando Cusculpivara et al. (persons living with HIV-AIDS) v. Guatemala (IACHR)
- Mendes v. Brazil (IACHR)
- Montero-Aranguren et al. (Detention Center of Catia) v. Venezuela (IACtHR)(2006)
- Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous Community v. Paraguay (IACtHR)(2006)
V. UN Documents and Interpretation
- CCPR General Comment No 6 - Right to Life (Article 6)
- CESCR General Comment No 14 - Right to Health (Article 12)
- CESCR Statement on Human Rights and Intellectual Property (2001)
- CESCR The Nature of States' Parties Obligations
- Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
- Convention on the Rights of the Child
- CRC General Comment No 3 - HIVAIDS and the rights of the child
- International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination
- International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
- Limburg principles on the Implementation of the ICESCR
- Maastricht Guidelines on Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- OHCHR - Intellectual Property and Human Rights
- OHCHR Access to medication in the context of pandemics such as HIV-AIDS
- OHCHR Resolution 2000-07 of the Sub-Commission on Human Rights on Intellectual Property and Human Rights
- OHCHR Resolution 2001-21 of the Sub-Commission on Human Rights on Intellectual Property and Human Rights
- UN Comm. on Human Rights - Globalization and Human Rights
- UN Comm. on Human Rights - Impact of TRIPS
- UN Comm. on Human Rights - Report of Secretary General
- United Nations Declaration of Commitment to HIV/AIDS (2001)
- United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights
- World Health Organization (WHO) Constitution
A. Hunt Reports
- Hunt Report Access to Essential Medicines and Maternal Mortality
- Hunt report HIV
- Hunt Report on health indicators and good practices (2003)
- Hunt Report on health systems and right to health (2008)
- Hunt Report on mental disability and the right to health (2005)
- Hunt Report on Mission to Uganda
- Hunt Report on Neglected Diseases
- Hunt Report on Pharmaceutical Company Guidelines
- Hunt Report on Poverty and Right to Health (2004)
- Hunt Report on poverty discrimination and stigma, neglected diseases, WTO and the right to health (2003)
- Hunt Report on progress and obstacles to the health and human rights movement (2007)
- Hunt report WTO
VI. WTO Documents
