GCHL Student Blog

At the EU level, more remains to be done to ensure that reproductive health data is effectively protected in practice, especially in light of persistent issues with opaque data sharing practices and insufficiently informed consent.

This event clarified that the core tension is not only between technology and privacy, but also between women’s efforts to reclaim their bodies and a commercial infrastructure that benefits from this process without transparency.

The Groningen Centre for Health Law recently hosted an event during Women’s Week at the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen with Dr Marco Versluis, gynaecologist at the UMCG, and Dr Geranne Lautenbach, legal advisor at Hooghiemstra & Partners.

Health warnings on food packaging play a pivotal role in empowering consumers to make informed dietary choices and are directly linked to the realisation of the right to health under international human rights law.

This leads to the conclusion that while Art. 56a is indeed non-discriminatory and adequate from a legal point of view, complete implementation has not yet been achieved.

The evolving international legal discourse on the intersection of the right to health and emerging recognition of the rights of nature increasingly reflect and validate this perspective, facilitating development of comprehensive frameworks that will connect human health with environmental integrity. 

Slovakia’s failure to protect the right to health of its Roma population demonstrates clear non-compliance with both the core obligations and progressive commitments under Article 12 of the ICESCR. Roma communities still lack access to essential services such as clean water, adequate housing, and basic healthcare.

Estonia has been proactive in developing policies to ensure consumers' right to information in healthcare, home and abroad. Access to information is key to empowering people to make informed decisions about their health. How is this area regulated?

The role of autonomy in alcohol regulation is far from clear, and, as the analysis of international and European legal instruments shows, it has ambiguous legal interpretations. Without a comprehensive understanding of the principle of autonomy, we cannot know how to apply it in the context of alcohol regulation either.

Despite the country’s obligations to reduce tobacco consumption as per the WHO FCTC and to ensure the fundamental right of health care as per ACHPR, Tanzania falls short of its responsibilities and lacks the necessary measures to limit tobacco and tobacco products.