The right to health's omission in the first half of 2014 from various intergovernmental post-MDG health and development goal proposals, and its further displacement by way of the General Assembly directive of September 2014, warrants attention as the MDG deadline nears and Member State negotiations on the post-2015 goals enters overdrive.
Despite activism encouraging a right to health goal [ 1– 7], an explicit post-2015 health rights narrative is not gaining effective traction in intergovernmental post-2015 proposals.
Second, this is consistent with, or triangulates, emerging Member State positioning on the potential content of the post-2015 development goals (as per the content of three key intergovernmental post-2015 reporthathat were released in 2014 by the Open Working Group on the SDGs, the G77 plus China, and to a lesser extent the African Union).
Further, as right to health advocates have also contended UHC is a practical expression of this human right, its suggested positioning in the Open Working Group's proposed health goal (the eighth of thirteen targets) evidences not only UHC's fragility in evolving intergovernmental post-2015 discussion, but equally reinforces the right to health's diminishing profile in the post-2015 landscape.
She paid a $250 fine and has kept her Senate post, as head of intergovernmental affairs.
It's worth offering a bit more context on a point I raised in my morning post on the new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Will the fresh assessment of global warming from the panel matter where it counts, in the realm of environmental and energy policy and diplomacy?
"Projections of sea-level rise during this century hover around 3 or 4 feet, but many, including the one from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, do not take Greenland into account," states a blog post on Columbia's website. .
With more than 5,000 emails in the file (posted on a Russian server), plus assorted documents including papers relating to various Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects, there's much more here than anyone has been able to trawl through thus far.
de Boer: Well, what I was trying to explain is that the industrialized country targets that were offered post-Copenhagen do not take us into the minus 25 to 40percentt range that the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] says is what gives us a 50-50 chance of avoiding a more than 2 degree [Celsius] temperature increase.
An intergovernmental capacity to rate sovereign debt.
She is now intergovernmental affairs minister.
