vaccine
A/HRC/RES/35/23
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
12 July 2017
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-fifth session
6–23 June 2017
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 23 June 2017
35/23.
The right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable
standard of physical and mental health in the implementation
of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and recalling the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the
Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,
Reaffirming also that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interrelated,
interdependent and mutually reinforcing,
Reaffirming further that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and
rights, and recognizing that these rights derive from the inherent dignity of the human
person,
Reaffirming that the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable
standard of physical and mental health is a human right as enshrined in, inter alia, the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as, with respect
to non-discrimination, in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and that
such a right derives from the inherent dignity of the human person,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 33/9 of 29 September 2016 and all
relevant previous resolutions and decisions on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the
highest attainable standard of physical and mental health adopted by the Council, the
General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights,
GE.17-11709(E)