Health systems can too often be places of punishment, coercion, and violations of basic rights—rather than places of treatment and care.
This fact sheet includes the following:
- a list of major treaties that protect human rights in patient care, matching each one to its enforcement mechanism;
- a list of specific rights, along with the specific treaty provisions that define each one and examples of violations;
- concise summaries of each of the 14 rights outlined in the European Charter of Patients’ Rights;
- a chart pairing each of these rights with the corresponding established rights in the international and European human rights systems.
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- International/European Framework for Proection of Human Rights in Patient Care (English) (150.56 Kb pdf file)
- International/European Framework for Proection of Human Rights in Patient Care (Macedonian) (157.11 Kb pdf file)
- International/European Framework for Proection of Human Rights in Patient Care (Romanian) (165.56 Kb pdf file)
- International/European Framework for Proection of Human Rights in Patient Care (Russian) (160.14 Kb pdf file)
- International/European Framework for Proection of Human Rights in Patient Care (Serbian) (170.55 Kb pdf file)
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