The Right of the Child to Be Vaccinated as Derived from the Right to Life: The Perspective of Polish Public Law
[ 1 ] Wydział Prawa i Bezpieczeństwa, Akademia im. Jakuba z Paradyża | [ P ] pracownik
2025
artykuł naukowy
angielski
- children’s rights
- right to health
- right to life
- peremptory norms
- vaccine hesitancy
EN Th is article examines the debate surrounding the right to vaccination in the context of in-creasing vaccine hesitancy. The study posits that children’s right to vaccination results from their fun-damental right to life. Th e fi rst section explores the normative expansion of human rights and the implications of recognizing children’s vaccination as a right. Th e second section assesses the potential consequences of the recognition of the child’s right to be vaccinated as being derived from the right to life. Th e fi nal section analyses Polish legislation on mandatory vaccinations for children, evaluating its eff ectiveness in protecting the right. Th e paper concludes that the recognition of children’s right to be vaccinated requires legal protections comparable to those for the right to life, highlighting vaccination’s critical role in safeguarding individual and public health, and that Polish law needs to be more eff ective in protecting the child’s right to be vaccinated
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