The Framework Convention Alliance welcomes the Secretariat’s report on financial resources and mechanisms of assistance, and urges the COP to adopt a decision: Reaffirming the importance of mechanisms of assistance and financial resources for implementation of the Convention; Calling on Parties to provide extra-budgetary contributions for the implementation assistance activities approved in the...

In 1989 the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) was ratified by all but two of its members, the United States of America and Somalia. The CRC has been hailed as a victory for the children’s rights movement and according to The International Save the Children Alliance (1999: 5) “over the past ten years it has helped to establish an internationally accepted framework for th...

according to the preamble of the framework convention for the protection of national minorities (which entered into force on february 1, 1998) minority rights are an integral part of fundamental human rights. universal level that taken on great importance in addressing the challenges of minority protection in evolving and increasingly diverse societies. so, this survey has an analytical appro...

The Tobacco Convention was adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2003. Nikogosian and Kickbusch examine the five potential impacts of the Tobacco Convention and its Protocol on public health. These include the adoption of the Convention would seem to unlock the treaty-making powers of WHO; the impact of the Convention in the global health architecture has been phenomenal globally; t...

Alice Grainger Gasser, Cassandra Welch, Monika Arora, and Eduardo Bianco have worked on projects funded by pharmaceutical companies producing medication for tobacco dependence treatment. The remaining authors report no relationships that could be construed as a conflict of interest. From the *World Heart Federation, Geneva, Switzerland; yCWJ Consulting, Nairobi, Kenya; zPublic Health Foundation...

1 Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, California, United States of America, 2 Global Health Policy Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America, 3 Joint Masters Program on Health Policy and Law, University of California, San Diego-California Western School of Law, San Diego, California, United States of America, 4 Departm...

Cigarette butts (tobacco product waste (TPW)) are the single most collected item in environmental trash cleanups worldwide. This brief descriptive study used an online survey tool (Survey Monkey) to assess knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs among individuals representing the Framework Convention Alliance (FCA) about this issue. The FCA has about 350 members, including mainly non-governmental tob...

background: iran is one of the countries that has ratified the world health organization framework convention of tobacco control (who-fctc), and has implemented a series of tobacco control interventions including the comprehensive tobacco control law. enforcement of this legislation and assessment of its outcome requires a dedicated evaluation system. this study aimed to develop a generic model...