States have a special obligation to provide those who do not have sufficient means with the necessary health insurance and health-care facilities, and to prevent any discrimination on internationally prohibited grounds in the provision of health care and health services, especially with respect to the core obligations of the right to health.... .......... [ 71].
In this article we explore the emerging debate on the post-2015 health development goals [ 13- 16] and the role of the right to health in this regard, focusing on the potential contribution of minimum core obligations to advancing basic health needs within this framework.
He said the authority, despite repeated promises, had "made no progress on its core obligation to take immediate action on the ground to end violence and combat terror, and to reform and reorganize".
Certainly, the notion of minimum core obligations that place non-derogable claims on resources mounts a significant challenge to a prevailing economic common sense rooted in recession-related austerity and a longer-standing neoliberal opposition to social spending.
This lack of drafting and definitional clarity and the failure to specifically list primary care as one of the core obligations add confusion to whether in fact primary health care is considered to be a core obligation.
The first subsection examines the legal obligations of international cooperation and assistance with respect to the right to health (global health obligations) focusing on the concept of core obligations.
Yet international duties towards the minimum core remain significantly underspecified, with deleterious impacts on the realization of minimum core obligations in low and middle-income countries.
Third, the Committee failed to explicitly identify international core obligations beyond telling richer states that it "is particularly incumbent" on them to provide international economic and technical assistance to developing countries towards meeting core and comparable priority obligations.
Our discussion centres on the interviewees' responses, which were grouped according to the core obligations framework outlined below.
While the injunction for richer states to provide international assistance and cooperation is presumably intended to fill in potential shortfalls towards realizing core obligations, the weakness of that imperative and the strong articulation of core obligations as non-derogable, appear to place financially unrealistic obligations on poorer countries.
