International Symposium 22.06.2009
To mark the publication of “Realizing the Right to Health”, on 22 June 2009, the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights organized an international symposium to address the topic “Realizing the Right to Health: Whose Role is it Anyway?”
Deputy UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mrs Kyung-wha Kang, delivered the keynote address, and a number of experts participated as panellists, including Len Rubenstein, Professor Mary Crewe, Professor Eibe Riedel, Professor Lynn Freedman, Iain Byrne, Gian Luca Burci, Carole Presern, and Tido von Schoen-Angerer.
The Deputy High Commissioner welcomed the book as “an initiative of the highest standards, which highlights the numerous challenges to the realisation, universality and protection of the right to health, and offers rigorous analysis and arguments to counter scepticism about health as a human right.
Webcast
View the 3 part video webcast of the symposium:
Part 1: Introductory speeches by Prof. Andrew Clapham, Mrs Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Deputy UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mrs Kyung-wha Kang.
Part 2: Realizing the Right to Health at the National Level: Whose Role is it Anyway?
Panel Chair: Mary Robinson, Panel Discussants: Professor Mary Crewe, Director of the Centre for the Study of AIDS, University of Pretoria (South Africa), Professor Eibe Riedel, Member of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Len Rubenstein, Executive Director, Physicians for Human Rights, Professor Lynn Freedman, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, Iain Byrne, Senior Lawyer, INTERIGHTS
Part 3: Realizing the Right to Health at the International Level: Whose Role is it Anyway?
Panel Chair: Andrew Clapham, Panel Discussants: Gian Luca Burci, General Counsel, World Health Organization, Carole Presern, GAVI Alliance, Tido von Schoen‐Angerer, Executive Director, Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, Médecins Sans Frontières International
