Advocacy - NGOs
2017
- IAHPC Interventions
- Collected IAHPC Statements to WHOEB 140 on Dementia, World Drug Problem, SDGs, etc.
- IAHPC/VNGOC Intervention at CND Intersessional 2017 on Twin Opioid Crises
- IAHPC statement Friday July 7 OEWG8
- IAHPC Statement on Medicines EB140
- IAHPC statement to WHO EB140 on promoting the health of migrants and refugees
- IAHPC/WHPCA Interventions at WHA 70
- IAHPC WHPCA Statement on WHA Report on Progress toward the SDGs
- Joint Statement for WHO Europe RC67 on Refugee Health
- Montevideo Roadmap WHO on NCDs
- Open Ended Working Group 8 IAHPC Statement
- ORAL IAHPC WHPCA Intervention on Agenda Item 16.3 Women's Children's Adolescent 's Health
- Balanced Opioid Systems Collaborative Paper
- Catholic Church Teachings on Palliative Care and Pain Medicine
- KP Remarks VNGOC Side Event CND 60
- Palliative care and controlled medicines at WHOEB 140
- Pallium India joins International palliative care organizations to urge governments to ensure balanced access to opioids for pain relief
- Resources and Articles, Right of Older Persons to Long Term and Palliative Care
- Special Event on Access CND 60
- VNGOC Side Event CND 60
- WHA 70 Agenda Palliative Care Advocacy
2016
- APCA KAMPALA 2016 presentation
- Human Rights Council Side Event Rights of Older Refugees
- Improving Access to Palliative Care for Persons with Disabilities: A Human Rights Perspective. Social Forum 2016.
- NGO Joint Statement- 5(c) Action plan for NCDs
- Reasons for drug policy reform: millions of people are left with untreated pain
- Palliative Care for Older Persons
- Statement on Refugee and Migrant Health - Final
- The global and regional frameworks for the provision of palliative care: the human rights and public health approach. Dainius Pūras
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health
5th African Palliative care conference
Kampala, Uganda - VNGOC statement to PGA, CND, CPCJ 251116
- Women\'s children\'s adolescents\' health and human rights WHO Consultation
2015
- IAHPC Advocacy Officer statement at Commission on Narcotic Drugs Intersessional on UNGASS Sept. 24 2015
- AU Draft Protocol on Rights of Older Persons APCA Letter
- UNGASS Civil Society Task Force - Guidance for Survey
2013
- Open Society Foundations. Older People and the Right to Freedom from Suffering
- Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa, Open Society Foundation for South Africa and Open Society Institute. Legal Aspects of Palliative Care (2009)
- Human Rights Watch Report. Global State of Pain Treatment: Access to Medicines and Palliative Care (2011)
- Human Rights Watch Report. Needless Pain Government Failure to Provide Palliative Care for Children in Kenya (2010)
- Human Rights Watch Report. Unbearable Pain: India’s Obligation to Ensure Palliative Care (2009)
- Human Rights Watch Report. Uncontrolled Pain: Ukraine’s Obligation to Ensure Evidence-Based Palliative Care (2011)
- INTERIGHTS The International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights. Human Rights Abuses and Health Care (2011)
- The Mayday Fund. A Call to Revolutionize Chronic Pain Care in America: An Opportunity in Health Care Reform (2009)
- Legal Rights of Children in Palliative Care (chapter 8). Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa (2011)
- Open Society Foundations. Access to Palliative Care: A Neglected Component of the Right to Health A Report on the Human Rights Council Side Event June 2011. Published April 2013
- European Association for Palliative Care. The Prague Charter –Palliative Care, a Human Right (2013)
- World Medical Association. Resolution on the Access to Adequate Treatment (2011)
2011
- IAHPC – WPCA Joint Declaration and Statement of Commitment on Palliative Care and Pain Treatment as Human Rights. Available in English, French, Spanish and Russian. Click here
- Access to pain relief: an essential human right. A report for World Hospice and Palliative Care. Published by Help the Hospices for the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance, 2007
- Human Rights Watch Report “Please Do Not Make Us Suffer Any More…Access To Pain Treatment As A Human Right.” (2008)
- Korea Declaration on Hospice and Palliative Care, March 2005
- Morphine consumption in the world: Countries with the highest and lowest consumption in 2006. Pain and Policy Studies Group, WHO Collaborating Center in Policy and Communications for Cancer Care, Madison, 2008
- Palliative Care and Human Rights: A Resource Guide. Open Society Institute and Equitas. New York: OSI, 2007. EN | ES
- Panama Proclamation – Pain and Palliative Care as Human Rights. Federation of Latin American IASP Chapters, May 2008. EN | ES
- UNAIDS/UNHCR International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights: 2006 Consolidated version