A Healthy Knowledge: The Right to Information and the Right to Health

"As human rights, the right to information and the right to health are inextricably connected. This ARTICLE 19 policy brief examines the policy implications of states’ international human rights obligations relating to the two rights. The brief sets out the relationship between the right to information and the right to health, specifically examining how the right to information is relevant to the right to health; it examines the international legal frameworks on the right to information and the right to health respectively; it highlights the nexus between these rights in practice, identifying key features of a legal and policy framework and recommendations for the promotion of the right to health through the right to information which states should establish; it identifies particular issues concerning the protection of maternal health and, finally, it concludes with a set of recommendations directed at state and nonstate actors on the protection of the right to information and the right to health."