eMagazine March 2023

OUR PEOPLE,
OUR MISSION
Global Health
eMagazine
March 2023
Our Beautiful Planet
Highlights
Reviews
GH Narrative
Reflections
Hispanic and Latinx Voices
Global Local
Voices of Ugandan
Students
Nursing Division
Women’s Health Education
Innovation and Technology
Our Beautiful Planet
Art to Remind Us of Who We
Can Be
Article of the Month
You’re Invited
Photo News
Calendar
Global Health Family
Resources
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The Lancet Planetary Health
Section Editor:
Dilyara F. Nurkhametova, MD, PhD
Director of Nuvance Health Global Health Electives Program
for AUC/RUSM
This new column exhibits the beauties of our planet earth
and our everyday destructive actions against it. We are
witnessing Earth undergoing a profound transformation.
In this recently launched section, we appreciate the gems
of our planet while raising awareness of climate change.
We invite our global health community to share photos,
videos, inspirational resources, and stories. We want to
hear from you how climate change affects people and
health in your part of the world.
From the right to a healthy planet to the
planetary right to health
February 2023; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00337-0
The author of this Commentary, Eric C Ip, reminds us of the obvious and
indisputable interconnection between the health of our planet and basic human
right to health. In 2022, the UN General Assembly released Resolution A/76/L.75
stating, “the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a human
right”. Even though the right to a healthy environment is not often cited in the texts
of major environmental treaties, this right has been included in the constitutions
of dozens of countries, clearly demonstrating that this right is becoming part
of customary international law. Recognition of the healthy environment and
healthy planet as a human right would also serve as a protection against
excessive anthropocentrism and the assumption that our planet “an objectified
human property that could legitimately be destroyed by people”. “Humans have
an intrinsic right to flourish; however, that is impossible if they treat the natural
foundations of life with disrespect”
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