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Action on Smoking and Health’s (ASH)
Accomplishments
• 2019 Bucharest Declaration on Human Rights and a Tobacco-Free Europe, coming out of discussion at our Global Forum
that continued at the European Network for Smoking and
Tobacco Prevention’s Conference the following days.
• 2019 Global Forum on Human Rights and a Tobacco-Free
World, co-hosted by the Romanian Presidency, Romania 2035
Tobacco-Free Generation Initiative, and theEuropean Network
for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention with high level speakers
such as the European Commissioner on Health and Food Safety
and Princess Dina Mired of Jordan.
• 2019 launch of ASH’s Tobacco and Human Rights Hub, a living
repository of human rights resources to assist our allies in
taking a human rights approach.
• 2018 Cape Town Declaration on Human Rights and a Tobacco-Free World, adopted by the World Conference on Tobacco or
Health (WCTOH) and over 100 organizations worldwide, which
states, “the manufacture, marketing, and sale of tobacco are
incompatible with the human right to health”.
• A successful campaign with the Danish Institute of Human
Rights’ s which resulted in DIHR denouncing tobacco as antithetical to the work of a human rights organization. This campaign also resulted in a sign on letter from 123 organizations in
40+ countries to immediately cease all marketing and production of cigarettes to adhere to human rights norms.
• A presentation before the Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights, along with two of our partner organizations. This was the
first time the Commission considered tobacco as a human rights
issue and was an important victory.
• An article in the American Bar Association’s International Law
Newsentitled Tobacco Industry Marketing: A Violation of Human
Rights in Latin America. The article was chosen by another ABA
Publication, GP Solo Magazine, to be included in a “Best of the
ABA” feature issue.
(Available in: https://ash.org/human-rights. Adapted.)
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