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HEALTH RIGHTS
Goal 1 (eradication of extreme poverty and hunger) and goal 8 (developing a global
partnership for development) are closely related to health.
21
For information on shadow reports, see Tanaka, A and Nagamine, Y., The International
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: A Guide for NGOs,
London, MRG and IMADR, 2001; Asher, J., The Right to Health: A Resource Manual for
NGOs, London, Commonwealth Medical Trust/American Association for the
Advancement of Science/ HURIDOCS, 2004, pp. 127–41. See also: International Human
Rights Internship Program, Circle of Rights – Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Activism, Washington, DC, 2000.
22
See Asher, op. cit., p. 140; Special Rapporteur on the Highest Attainable Standard of
Physical and Mental Health, on the CHR Res. 2002/31.
23
Moog Rodriguez, M. G. , ‘The Planafloro Inspection Panel Claim: Opportunities and
Challenges for Civil Society in Rondonia, Brazil’, in Clark, D., Fox, J. and Treakle, K. (eds.)
Demanding Accountability: Civil Society Claims and the World Bank Inspection Panel,
Rowman & Littlefield, Inc., 2003, pp. 45-68.
24
Huq Dulu, M. ‘The Experience of the Jamuna Bridge’, in Ibid., pp. 93-114.
25
See Melish, T. Protecting Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Inter-American
Human Rights System: A Manual for Presenting Claims. New Haven, CT, Orville Schell
Center for International Human Rights/Yale University, 2002, p. 194.
26
Se e.g. ACHR, Arts. 1, 24.
27
See Purohit and Moore v. The Gambia. African Commission on Human and Peoples’
Rights. Communication 241/01 (33rd Sessions, 2003) [right to health of mentally
disabled persons].
28
See e.g., Melish, op. cit., p. 233.
29
See Inter-American Court of Human Rights Separate Vote of Judge Rodolfo E. Piza
Escalante, Proposed Amendments to the Naturalization provisions of the Constitution of
Costa Rica, Advisory Opinion OC-4/84, 1984, OAS TS Ser A No. 4 (1984), para. 6.
30 The right to life was specifically addressed in the ACHPR Ogoni Case, op. cit.; Bodily
Integrity concerns were raised in Inter-American Commission Report No. 66/00. Case
12.191 Maria Mamérita Mestanza Chávez. (October. 3, 2000). Available at: www.cidh.oas.org.
See also MM v. Peru (unpublished case resolved through amicable resolution process
signed Mar. 6, 2000) [discussion available at www.crr.org/esp_pub_art_ias.html.]
31
Note that the domestic effect of international treaties varies. See Toebes, op. cit., pp. 191-93.
32
E.g. Lopez v. Instituto Venezolano de Seguros Sociales, 487-060401 Supreme Court of
Venezuela, Constitional Chamber (1997), available at: www.tsj.gov.ve/decisiones/scon/
Abril/487-060401-001343.htm; Alvarez v. Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social, Exp.
5778-V-97, No. 5934-97, Sala Constitucional de la Corte Suprema de Justicia de Costa
Rica.
33 See, generally, Alejandro Moreno Alvarez v. Estada Colombiano, SU.819/99 Corte
Constitucional de Colombia (1999). Available at: //bib.minjusticia.gov.co/jurisprudencia/