"70 years of human rights in global health: drawing on a contentious past to secure a hopeful future"

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), adopted  on  Dec  10,  1948,  established  a  modern  human  
rights foundation that has become a cornerstone of global health, central to public health policies, programmes, and
practices.  To  commemorate  the  70th  anniversary  of  this  seminal  declaration,  we  trace  the  evolution  of  human  
rights  in  global  health,  linking  the  past,  present,  and  future  of  health  as  a  human  right  (figure  1).  This  future  
remains  uncertain.  As  contemporary  challenges  imperil  continuing   advance ments,   threatening   both   human   
rights  protections  and  global  health  governance,  the  future  will  depend,  as  it  has  in  the  past,  on  sustained  po­
litical engagement to realise human rights in global health.