Policies and services supporting families are a very important part of the efforts by States to ensure that adolescents thrive and grow up as healthy and responsible adults. These policies should respect and protect the human rights of all individual members of family and should exclude measures that undermine the rights of individual members of the family, including 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
Families
Year
2016
Paragraph type
Conclusion / Recommendation
Reference
SR Health, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/32/32, para. 109.