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FCGH Alliance Calls for a Human Rights-Based Global Response to COVID-19
The FCGH Alliance joined over 100 organizations and individuals to call on the heads of state and government of G20 countries in a call for a coordinated, equitable, and human rights-based global response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Addressing health injustice in the United States through accountability & citizen participation
Submitted by Kat Lahr PROLOGUE (COVID-19 update) I wrote this post before the coronavirus outbreak and I wanted to add some additional thoughts about this global pandemic as my words...
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How do we ensure full participation in the right to health?
The FCGH Alliance has drafted articles on participation to spark discussion on possible paths by which states can ensure people’s meaningful participation in developing, monitoring, and evaluating laws, policies, programs that may impact their right to health. We invite your comments and broader feedback on this section!
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The Framework Convention on Global Health: An empowering International Instrument to Advance the Right to Health
We often look to how the Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) would empower people, enhancing meaningful participation and government accountability to the right to health, with an emphasis on people who now have the least voice and to whom governments are least accountable. Such empowerment is central to the FCGH, not only for people but also for ministries of health.
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Amid UN calls for UHC, civil society demands global health equity–the FCGH would help achieve both
On September 23 the UN high-level meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) will take place in New York City, where world leaders will sign a political declaration on how to...
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Improved implementation of the right to health in Kenya through an FCGH
One of the key principles that the FCGH Alliance proposes for the Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) centres around empowering people to claim and enforce their right to health. Such empowerment is presently missing from Kenya’s legal framework, vital though it is.
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Contribute to Drafting the Framework Convention on Global Health
The FCGH Alliance has now begun the drafting process, with the aim of catalyzing widespread engagement and reaching people who rarely have a say in health-related policymaking and beginning to build a shared vision for what the FCGH could accomplish.
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Global Health International Advisors Support the FCGH
The Executive Committee of the Global Health International Advisors (GHIA) extended its support to the FCGH with the following resolution: “The Global Health International Advisors, GHIA, having analyzed the statements and efforts of...
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Latin American Alliance for Global Health commits support for FCGH
The Alianza Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Salud Global (ALASAG, Latin American Alliance for Global Health) held its fifth global conference in Medellín, Colombia 14-16 November 2018. The final day...
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The Framework Convention on Global Health: A Vote for Global Solidarity in an Era of Nationalistic Populism
The FCGH embodies the principles that are under a dark cloud in much of the world: a commitment to an international order that values multilateral collaboration and that seeks to advance the common good and human rights for all...
