A/HRC/RES/41/10
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 July 2019
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-first session
24 June–12 July 2019
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 11 July 2019
41/10.
Access to medicines and vaccines in the context of the right of everyone
to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and
mental health
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
Reaffirming also that the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable
standard of physical and mental health is a human right as reflected in, inter alia, the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and, with respect to
non-discrimination, in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and that the
Constitution of the World Health Organization also recognizes the enjoyment of the highest
attainable standard of health as a fundamental right of every human being, without
distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 32/15 of 1 July 2016 and all relevant
previous resolutions and decisions on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest
attainable standard of physical and mental health adopted by the Council, the General
Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights,
Recalling also the Declaration on the Right to Development, which, inter alia,
establishes that States should take, at the national level, all measures necessary for the
realization of the right to development and should ensure, inter alia, equality of opportunity
for all in their access to basic resources, such as health services,
Reaffirming General Assembly resolution 70/1 of 27 September 2015, entitled
“Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which the
Assembly adopted the outcome document of the United Nations summit for the adoption of
the post-2015 development agenda recognizing that eradicating poverty in all its forms and
dimensions, including extreme poverty, is among the greatest global challenges and an
indispensable requirement for sustainable development, and envisaging a world free of
poverty, hunger, disease and want, a world of universal respect for human rights and human
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