United Nations General Assembly A/HRC/RES/33/11 Distr.: General 6 October 2016 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-third session Agenda item 3 Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 29 September 2016 33/11. Preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age as a human rights concern The Human Rights Council, Recalling its resolutions 24/11 of 26 September 2013 and 27/14 of 2 October 2014 on preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age as a human rights concern, and all other relevant resolutions on the rights of the child of the Commission on Human Rights, the Council and the General Assembly, Reaffirming that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, and recognizing the need to ensure the full and effective enjoyment by all of their human rights, including the right to development, Deeply concerned that more than 5,900,000 children under 5 years of age die each year, mostly from preventable and treatable causes, owing to inadequate or lack of access to integrated and quality maternal, newborn and child health care and services, early childbearing, and to health determinants, such as safe drinking water and sanitation, safe and adequate food and nutrition, and that mortality remains highest among children belonging to the poorest and most marginalized communities, Deeply concerned also that, despite progress made in the reduction of child mortality, Millennium Development Goal 4, on reducing child mortality by two thirds from 1990 to 2015, was not achieved, and that deaths of newborn babies are falling more slowly, with a projected increase, if current trends continue, in the share of neonatal deaths by 2030, Welcoming the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 1 and recognizing that reducing preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age will require efforts across the 2030 Agenda, including target 3.2, on ending preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, 1 General Assembly resolution 70/1. GE.16-17295(E) 

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