Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 70
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- The international human rights framework establishes the clear duty of States to promote adolescents' mental health and emotional well-being, provide appropriate mental health treatment and care and ensure that mental health laws fully recognize the rights of those with mental illness. Target 3.4 of the Sustainable Development Goals is to reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention, treatment and the promotion of mental health and well-being. That target must be applied fully to adolescents.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Year
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Health, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/32/32, para. 70.
- Paragraph number
- 70
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