Library
In this library you can find a wealth of information about the proposed FCGH to learn more about why the FCGH Alliance is organizing and advocating for a global treaty on the right to health.
2024
The Lancet – Time for a global human rights treaty for health equity
2020
Imagining Global Health with Justice: Transformative Ideas for Health and Well-Being While Leaving No One Behind (The Georgetown Law Journal)
The authors make the case that the FCGH, along with a Right to Health Capacity Fund and health equity programs of action, should be pillars of a post-COVID-19 rights-based global health architecture aimed at global health with justice, and detail how each of these three instruments and mechanisms could operate.
Framework Convention on Global Health: A Legal Foundation for Sustainable Health Equity
The FCGH would seek to create a “web of accountability” around the right to health, thus turning the right’s mandates, principles, and frameworks into people’s lived realities, helping restore people’s dignity. This briefing paper explains specific mechanisms this proposed treaty on global health might provide to do so, the power of a legally binding instrument, and its urgent need in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the powerful contribution the FCGH could make to global health security.
2018
A Rights-Based Framework for the SDGs and Beyond: A Framework Convention on Global Health
This briefing paper provides the overall vision of the FCGH, how the FCGH would respond to 4 core failings of national and global governance for health, possible treaty models of treaties and other international frameworks that the FCGH could learn from, and an FCGH call to action, including for a WHO FCGH working group.
2017
NGOs and global health leaders urge Dr. Tedros to support FCGH
September 7, 2017: Dozens of NGOs and global health leaders from around the world call for the new WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros, to establish a WHO FCGH Working Group to explore the potential benefits, principles, and parameters of the FCGH.
Global health leaders urge Dr. Tedros to support the FCGH
June 23, 2017: Global health leaders from around the world call for the new WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros, to establish a WHO FCGH Working Group to explore the potential benefits, principles, and parameters of the FCGH.
2016
The Framework Convention on Global Health: Addressing Frequently Raised Issues
Much like a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document, this document points to a number of key issues that people may be curious about regarding the FCGH, such as the need for a treaty on the right to health when the right is already in international law, the need for a treaty rather than non-binding law, and the mechanisms that the FCGH could include.
The Framework Convention on Global Health: Addressing Frequently Raised Issues
The Next WHO Director-General’s Highest Priority: A Global Treaty on the Human Right to Health (Lancet Global Health)
Global health leaders from around the world make the case for why the right to health and the FCGH should be the highest priority of the incoming (2017) WHO Director-General, who could by “seizing the potential of the FCGH…..launch a historic effort to align national and global governance for health with human rights, bringing the world closer to global health with justice.”
A Vote for the World’s Health, Absent From the Headlines (DevEx)
Precious Matsoso, the Director-General of South Africa’s Department of Health, and Mushtaque Chowdhury, Vice Chair of BRAC, make the case for why the FCGH should be a top priority for the incoming (2017) WHO Director-General, including how in a world with nationalist populism on the rise, “Joining together in this treaty would bring countries together in a common venture for global health — and help heal a fractured world.”
An Independent Review and Accountability Mechanism for the Sustainable Development Goals: The Possibilities of a Framework Convention on Global Health (Health and Human Rights Journal)
This article explains how the FCGH “could establish a nuanced, layered, and multi-faceted regime of compliance and accountability to the right to health” and, in the process, “significantly strengthen accountability for the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).”
2014
Framework Convention on Global Health Background Briefing: The Right to Health
Platform for a Framework Convention on Global Health: Realizing the Universal Right to Health
Building on the FCGH Manifesto of 2012, the FCGH Platform launched the FCGH Alliance predecessor — the Platform for an FCGH — explained the need for an FCGH and offered the fundamental principles that would guide its core content.
2013
Towards a Framework Convention on Global Health: A Transformative Agenda for Global Health Justice
Beginning a discussion of the persistence and depth of global health inequities, this Article offers a systematic account of the goals and justifications for the FCGH, its normative foundations, and potential construction of an FCGH, grounded in the human right to health.
HHR Journal: Realizing the right to health through a Framework Convention on Global Health
2012
A Framework Convention on Global Health: A Catalyst for Justice (WHO Bulletin)
Michel Sidibé, the Executive Director of UNAIDS, and UNAIDS chief strategist Kent Buse point to the FCGH as a way to “rekindl[e] our common interest in the right to health,” with the potential for the FCGH to be “a catalyst to making justice in global health a common cause.
2010
Health for All: Justice for all (The FCGH Manifesto)
This Manifesto was an early global call to action to join the campaign for the FCGH, laying out the case for the FCGH, rooted in human rights, global health justice, and social justice, and key principles of the FCGH, while calling for communities, civil society, and all people to insist upon the right to health.
Spring-Fall 2015 Combined Issue | Global Health Governance
Media
A collection of audio, video, and graphic material from the FCGH Alliance and supporters.
The Framework Convention on Global Health: Restoring Dignity and Achieving Health Equity through the Right to Health
In this video Professor Lawrence Gostin provides a brief introduction on the FCGH, how it may help to tackle health inequities around the world, and what you can do to support the FCGH Alliance.
A brief overview of the FCGH.