Right to health in early childhood - Right to survival and development 2015, para. 91
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Accountability is essential if the right to health is to be more than window dressing. International human rights law provides a legal basis for accountability. The three primary components of accountability are monitoring, review and redress. Multiple administrative, political and legal accountability processes have a role to play in guaranteeing the right to health, including survival and development, in early childhood. These mechanisms should provide accountability for the protection of the rights to health and healthy development in early childhood in national policies, programmes and plans and in the delivery of services and enable individuals and groups to seek redress where this has not happened.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
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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
Year
2015
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Other
Reference
SR Health, Report to the UNGA (2015), A/70/213, para. 91.