Lack of Access, Lack of Care: A Reference Guide to Women's Right to Health in the International Trading System
Posted: 17 Jun 2008
Abstract
While the focus of this paper is on trade and women's right to health, it is also intended to serve as a more general framework of analysis that advocates can apply to trade and any number of economic and social rights. The paper first makes a connection between trade agreements and women's right to health; second, it establishes the basis for the right to health and the importance of social and economic rights; finally, it provides women's human rights advocates with tools to hold their national governments accountable for the discriminatory effects of trade policies that impair women's enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights.
Keywords: cedaw, women, health,
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