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Recalling also the Declaration on the Right to Development, which, inter alia,
establishes that States should take, at the national level, all measures necessary for the
realization of the right to development and should ensure, inter alia, equality of opportunity
for all in their access to basic resources, such as health-care services,
Reaffirming World Health Assembly resolutions 69.1 of 27 May 2016, on
strengthening essential public health functions in support of the achievement of universal
health coverage, 69.11 of 28 May 2016, on health in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, and 70.15 of 31 May 2017, on promoting the health of refugees and
migrants,
Reaffirming also General Assembly resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled
“Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which the
Assembly adopted the outcome document of the United Nations summit for the adoption of
the post-2015 development agenda, recognizing that eradicating poverty in all its forms and
dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an
indispensable requirement for sustainable development, and envisaging a world free of
poverty, hunger, disease and want, a world of universal respect for human rights and human
dignity that includes equitable and universal access to health-care services and social
protection, and where physical, mental and social well-being are assured,
Recognizing that the 2030 Agenda is guided by the purposes and principles of the
Charter, including full respect for international law, and is grounded in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, international human rights treaties, the United Nations
Millennium Declaration and the 2005 World Summit Outcome, and is informed by other
instruments, such as the Declaration on the Right to Development,
Reaffirming that the Goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda are integrated and
indivisible, balance the three dimensions of sustainable development, namely, the
economic, social and environmental, seek to achieve gender equality and the empowerment
of women and girls, and are global in nature and universally applicable, taking into account
different national realities, capacities and levels of development and respecting national
policy space and priorities,
Welcoming the Sustainable Development Goals, including, inter alia, Goal 3, on
ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages, and its specific and
interlinked targets, as well as other health-related Goals and targets,
Welcoming also the inclusion of gender equality and empowerment of all women
and girls as a stand-alone goal, and its integration into all Goals and targets of the 2030
Agenda and throughout the implementation process,
Recognizing, in particular, the commitments made by States in the 2030 Agenda to
leave no one behind, and to endeavour to reach the furthest behind first, founded on the
dignity of the human person, and reflecting the principles of equality and nondiscrimination,
Reaffirming the right of refugees and migrants to the enjoyment of the highest
attainable standard of physical and mental health,
Concerned about the interrelatedness between poverty and the realization of the
right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental
health, in particular the fact that ill health can be both a cause and a consequence of
poverty,
Recognizing the need for States to address the social, economic and environmental
determinants of health, as well as to address holistically a range of barriers arising from
inequality and discrimination that impede access to health-care services,
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