Approaches to justiciability of right to Health in Regional Human Rights Systems

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 ندارم

2 Faculty of Law, Department of International Law, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Access to health services is described as a fundamental right, which due to its belonging to welfare rights, its justiciability has been disputed since emergence of these tights. So that today the most important issue is degree and quality of justiciability of elements and components of the right to health.
Therefore, these paper having been evaluating and criticizing the views of opponents of justiciability in an analytical descriptive manner aims to demonstrate how this right have been reviewed and Finally we want to answer these question that whether regional human rights systems have been able to provide full justiciablity of the elements of the right to health or not. It seems the African human rights system unlike the European and American human rights systems, to a certain extent, has been able to provide full justiciability of right to health at the core minimum obligations level.

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