A/HRC/RES/27/14
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
2 October 2014
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-seventh session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
27/14
Preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age as
a human rights concern
The Human Rights Council,
Emphasizing that the Convention on the Rights of the Child constitutes the standard
in the promotion and protection of the rights of the child, and bearing in mind the
importance of the Optional Protocols thereto, as well as other human rights instruments,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 24/11 of 26 September 2013 on
preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age as a human rights
concern, as well as 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,
Reaffirming also the right of everyone to a standard of living adequate for their
health and well-being, which is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
and the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and
mental health, as enshrined in the International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights as well as in the Convention on the Rights of the Child,
Deeply concerned that more than 6,300,000 children under 5 years of age die each
year,1 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, as well as to health determinants, such as safe drinking water and sanitation,
1
See “Levels and Trends in Child Mortality”, available from
www.unicef.org/media/files/Levels_and_Trends_in_Child_Mortality_2014.pdf.
GE.14-17712 (E)