The relationship between Security and Health: A New Paradigm for the United Nations Security Council?
Abstract
One of the aspects related to biolaw is that related to security and health. In other words, using the expression of relevant authorities on this subject, “the securitization of health” and, those situations connected with the Security Council labour in the last decades, may constitute an interesting subject. Beginning with the role of the UN blue helmets in many countries where the expansion of HIV/AIDS is usual, followed by the expansion of some diseases in Haiti, together with the Ebola “crisis” in 2014 and connected with the efforts of the World Health Organization to fight against the zika...what is the role played by the United Nations Security Council on this field, trying to establish a relationship between security and health?
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“The relationship between Security and Health: a new paradigm for the UN Security Council?” Abstract: One of the aspects related to biolaw is that related to security and health. In other words, using the expression of relevant authorities on this subject, “the securitization of health” and, those situations connected with the Security Council labour in the last decades, may constitute an interesting subject. Beginning with the role of the UN blue helmets in many countries where the expansion of HIV/AIDS is usual, followed by the expansion of some diseases in Haiti, together with the Ebola “crisis” in 2014 and connected with the efforts of the World Health Organization to fight against the zika...what is the role played by the United Nations Security Council on this field, trying to establish a relationship between security and health? This is the proposal of this communication that we submit to the ESIL Biolaw group meeting in Riga. Keywords: Ebola, Health, Security Council, United Nations. María Isabel Torres Cazorla
The relationship between Security and Health: a new paradigm for the United Nations Security Council? María Isabel Torres Cazorla Universidad de Málaga (Spain)
Securitization of Health: Myth or Reality? • Article 39 of the United Nations Charter and Health…
First step… • 10 January 2000: First Security Council meeting of the new millennium as an open debate on “The situation in Africa: the impact of AIDS on international peace and security” (S/PV.4087) • Resolution 1308 (17 July 2000): HIV/AIDS. “HIV/AIDS and international peacekeeping operations” – Number of people living with HIV (WHO estimated data): http://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.main.22100WHO?la ng=en
21st International AIDS Conference • Durban (South Africa), 18-21July 2016 http://www.aids2016.org/
Second round… Haiti
And the Ebola crisis • 28 November 2011: Pandemics and the Ebola crisis; Security Council debate (S/PV/6668), under the initiative of Portugal • -15 September 2014: Resolution 2176 was adopted (see Preamble, 2nd indent). • -18 September 2014: Resolution 2177 was adopted (see Preamble, 5th indent), “Determining that the unprecedented extent of the Ebola outbreak in Africa constitutes a threat to international peace and security”.