Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 14

Paragraph
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Paragraph text
Although opportunities for adolescents in many parts of the world have improved in recent years, the second decade of life is associated with exposure to increasing risks to the right to health, including violence, abuse, sexual or economic exploitation, trafficking, harmful traditional practices, migration, radicalization, recruitment into gangs or militias, self-harm, substance use and dependence and obesity. Gender inequalities become more significant as, for example, girls become exposed to child marriage, sexual violence and lower levels of enrolment in secondary education. The world in which adolescents live poses profound challenges, including poverty and inequality, climate change and environmental degradation, urbanization and migration, radical changes in employment potential, aging societies, rising health-care costs and escalating humanitarian and security crises.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Procedures: Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health 
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
  • Environment
  • Gender
  • Health
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2016
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
SR Health, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/32/32, para. 14.
Paragraph number
14