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dc.contributor.authorDavies, Sara
dc.contributor.editorYanzhong Huang
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:28:48Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:28:48Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.modified2010-09-22T06:55:49Z
dc.identifier.issn19392389
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/32256
dc.description.abstractIn 2006, the International Law Commission began a study into the role of states and international organizations in protecting persons in the event of a disaster. Special Rapporteur Mr. Eduardo Valencia-Ospina was appointed to head the study, and in 2011 the findings of the study will be presented to the United Nations General Assembly. Of interest to this paper has been the inclusion of "epidemics" under the natural disaster category in all of the reports detailing the Commission's program of work on the protection of persons. This paper seeks to examine the legal and political ramifications involved in including "epidemic" into the concept of protection by exploring where sovereign responsibility for epidemic control begins and ends, particularly in light of the revisions to the International Health Regulations by the World Health Assembly in 2005. The paper will first analyze the findings already presented by the Special Rapporteur, examining the existing "responsibilities" of both states and international organizations. Then, the paper will consider to what extent the concept of protection entails the duty to assist individuals when an affected state proves unwilling or unable to assist their own population in the event of a disease outbreak. In an attempt to answer this question, the third part of the paper will examine the recent cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSeton Hall University
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.ghgj.org/Davies3.2%20International.htm
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto23
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalGlobal Health Governance
dc.relation.ispartofvolume3
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchInternational Relations
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied Economics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical Science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode160607
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1402
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1606
dc.titleIs There an International Duty to Protect Persons in the Event of an Epidemic?
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2010
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorDavies, Sara E.


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