The right to health and development 2011, para. 57
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- Thus, overreliance on easily quantifiable data threatens to erode the core concept of the realization of human rights as ends in and of themselves. The instrumental value of the incorporation of human rights into development practice must not overshadow the proper understanding of human rights as constitutive components of human development. The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has noted that the MDGs "embody basic human rights," including the right to health. An understanding of the intrinsic value of human rights and the promotion of human dignity as a necessary end of development must not be sacrificed in order to facilitate data-intensive evaluation.
- 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)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2011
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Health, Report to the HRC (2011), A/HRC/17/25, para. 57.
- Paragraph number
- 57
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