A/RES/69/132
United Nations
Distr.: General
9 January 2015
General Assembly
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 124
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 11 December 2014
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/69/L.35 and Add.1)]
69/132. Global health and foreign policy
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 63/33 of 26 November 2008, 64/108 of 10 December
2009, 65/95 of 9 December 2010, 66/115 of 12 December 2011, 67/81 of
12 December 2012 and 68/98 of 11 December 2013, and reaffirming the outcomes
of the major United Nations conferences and summits which have contributed to the
advancement of the global health agenda as noted in these resolutions,
Recalling also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 international
humanitarian law, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights2 and the Constitution of the World Health Organization,3
Reaffirming the right of every human being, without distinction of any kind, to
the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and
to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of oneself and one’s
family, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous
improvement of living conditions,
Underscoring the responsibility of Member States to build resilient national
health systems and strengthen national capacities through attention to, inter alia,
service delivery, health systems financing, including appropriate budgetary
allocations, the health workforce, health information systems, the procurement and
distribution of medicines, vaccines and technologies, sexual and reproductive
health-care services and political will in leadership and governance, and recognizing
the value and importance of universal health coverage in providing access to quality
health services, while ensuring that the use of these services does not expose the
users to financial hardship, with a special emphasis on the members of the poor,
vulnerable and marginalized segments of the population,
Recognizing that health is a precondition for and an outcome and indicator of
all three dimensions of sustainable development and that, despite progress made,
challenges in global health, including major inequities and vulnerabilities within
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 14, No. 221.
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