Supporting adolescents to navigate successfully the challenging path towards healthy emotional, psychosocial, physical and sexual development requires recognition of their rights to information, freedom of expression and association, protection from all forms of violence, safety, bodily integrity and family life, and respect for their dignity and evolving capacities.
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
Year
2016
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
SR Health, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/32/32, para. 13.