Book Chapter
Community Interests and the Right to Health in Trade and Investment Law
T Voon, A Mitchell
Community Interests Across International Law | Oxford University Press | Published : 2018
Abstract
The World Health Organization (WHO) today has 194 member states, compared to the 193 member states of the United Nations (UN). The WHO can therefore be understood to be an international organization representative of community interests, meaning the interests of the global community at large in promoting and protecting public health, in a sense analogous to the community interest in preserving the natural environment. The Constitution of the World Health Organization,3 which entered into force in 1948, recognizes the “enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health” as “one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic..
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