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Report of the SR on the right to health and Agenda 2030 2016, para. 19
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- The right to health encompasses the underlying determinants of health, including its social and psychosocial determinants. The Sustainable Development Goals address many of these underlying determinants, from specific right-to-health entitlements found in the targets of Goal 3, such as road safety, harmful alcohol and tobacco use and environmental pollution, as well as other Goals and targets, including on clean water and sanitation (Goal 6), education (Goal 4), food (Goal 2), decent work (Goal 8), reducing inequalities (Goal 10), gender equality (Goal 5), poverty reduction (Goal 1), climate change and access to energy (Goal 13), peace, justice and strong institutions (Goal 16) and violence (targets 5.2, 16.1 and 16.2).
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
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- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
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- N.A.
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- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Report of the SR on the right to health and Agenda 2030 2016, para. (c)
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- Resource allocation should ensure that the most vulnerable and marginalized have access to an adequate supply of safe and potable water (Goals 3 and 6).
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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
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Effective and full implementation of the right to health framework, including justiciability of ESCR and the right to health; the progressive realisation of the right to health; the accountability deficit of transnational corporations; and the current ... 2014, para. 24
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- Where a progressively realizable obligation has a core component, adjudicators should inquire as to whether the State has fulfilled its obligation in that regard. When such rights have not been safeguarded, courts have found violations of the relevant right without even delving into an analysis of a State's available resources. For example, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights noted that the State obligation to guarantee access to a decent life must be read in view of the State's progressively realizable obligations set forth in article 26 of the American Convention on Human Rights. However, the Court did not use the concept of progressive realization to qualify the obligation of the State to provide minimum living conditions that were compatible with the dignity of the human person, but rather found that the State had breached the claimants' right to life and was required to provide, inter alia, medicine, food, clean water and sanitation facilities. Thus, in accordance with the core obligations under the right to health framework, where adjudicators determine that certain fundamental human rights have been violated, they may find that the State has breached its relevant obligations without delving into the question of whether the State had the available resources to satisfy such obligations.
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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
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The right to health and development 2011, para. 14
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- The right to health is of particular importance to development. It is an inclusive right that encompasses the underlying determinants of health such as access to food and water and sanitation and poverty and discrimination. As such, the right to health is implicated in nearly all development activities, and should be a central component of development programming.
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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
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The right to health and development 2011, para. 19d
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- [As the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has clarified, States have a core minimum obligation to ensure the satisfaction of minimum essential levels of the right to health under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), including:] Access to shelter, housing and sanitation and an adequate supply of safe drinking water;
- 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
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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