title: The Right to Life in Peace: An Essential Condition for Realizing the Right to Health.
abstract: Since 2008, the UN Human Rights Council has been working on a declaration related to the right to peace. The Council has established an Open-Ended Working Group, which is refining the draft declaration. This paper discusses the relationship between the right to health and the right to life in peace; we argue that peace and the conditions that support peace are essential to realize the right to health. Health professionals have an important role to play in promoting the right to a life in peace. We suggest that human dignity, as foundational to all human rights as well as health professionals' codes of ethics, provides a normative basis for the progressive realization of both the rights to health and to life in peace.
authors.affiliation: Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Worcester Graduate School of Nursing and Vice Chair of the Board of the Center for Nonviolent Solutions in Worcester, MA.
authors.forename: Donna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Perry
authors.affiliation: Deputy Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations in Geneva and Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Open Ended Working Group on the Right to Peace.
authors.forename: Christian Guillermet
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Fernandez
authors.affiliation: Legal Assistant of the Chairperson-Rapporteur at the Permanent Mission of Costa Rica in Geneva.
authors.forename: David Fernandez
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Puyana
mesh_terms: D014943:Global Health; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D012924:Social Conditions; D014754:Violence