Materials
2020
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.
2016
The Framework Convention on Global Health: Addressing Frequently Raised Issues
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.
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.