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Right to health and criminalization of same-sex conduct and sexual orientation, sex-work and HIV transmission 2010, para. 52
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- The criminalization of HIV transmission predominately takes two forms: first, laws specifically criminalizing transmission of HIV and, second, through the application of existing criminal law to cases involving exposure to or the transmission of HIV (such as assault). Such legislation has included, inter alia, the criminalization of exposure to HIV (including mother-to-child exposure), attempted transmission and failure to disclose HIV status to potential sexual partners. Certain statutes also mandate the imposition of harsher sentencing in cases involving sexual violence where HIV transmission has occurred, essentially treating HIV as an aggravating factor.
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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)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health and criminalization of same-sex conduct and sexual orientation, sex-work and HIV transmission 2010, para. 67
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- In Sierra Leone, a person infected with HIV (and aware of the fact) must "take all reasonable measures and precautions to prevent the transmission of HIV to others and in the case of pregnant women, the foetus", with criminal sanctions imposed for failure to do so. It is unclear what "all reasonable measures and precautions" in the case of prevention of mother-to-child transmission would include, and whether such standards are clearly articulated and understood by health-care providers and pregnant women themselves to ensure that an informed decision can be made. Given the complexity of guidance on the suitability of breastfeeding, decisions on infant feeding options involve a complex balancing of risks and benefits, and require that the mother be provided with accurate, comprehensible information. In this instance, the criminal law has the potential to punish women for the inadequacy of the government in providing appropriate services and education.
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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
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Criminalisation of sexual and reproductive health 2011, para. 8
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- The Convention on the Rights of the Child provides for the protection of the right to health of young persons under the age of 18. Article 24 of the Convention affirms the right to health as established in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which is especially relevant given the importance of sexual and reproductive health to the lives of young women and men. The Convention urges States to ensure prenatal and post-natal care for mothers, develop family planning education and services and ensure the elimination of traditional practices that are "prejudicial to the health of children".
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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)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Criminalisation of sexual and reproductive health 2011, para. 39
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- In some instances, civil legislation related to child welfare has been expanded to include punitive sanctions for prenatal drug exposure, where such exposure may provide a ground for the termination of parental rights and the removal of the child upon birth. A pregnant woman's positive toxicology report or clinical signs of drug exposure in newborns, may be regarded as proof of child abuse or neglect under these legislative schemes. In some jurisdictions, health professionals are required to test pregnant women or newborns for drug exposure or may do so provided the woman is given notice. Others have enacted legislation authorizing the institutionalization of women who have used drugs during pregnancy. Health professionals may also be obliged to report positive drug-screening results to the Government.
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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)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The right to health and development 2011, para. 9
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- In 1987, the landmark study by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) "Adjustment with a Human Face" spurred global debate on the negative social impacts, including on health, of structural adjustment programmes prescribed by the international financial institutions as a means to achieve economic development. Three years later, in 1990, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) published the first Human Development Report. Alongside the report, UNDP created the Human Development Index, a summary measure of various human development indicators, such as maternal mortality, childhood education, gender disparities, poverty, etc. The index and report represented a major progression in development theory, which aimed to "[put] people back at the center of the development process" by going beyond income to assess people's long-term well-being. This broader and holistic reconceptualization of development has been increasingly favoured and has facilitated efforts to recognize and incorporate human rights in development work.
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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)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The realization of the right to health of older persons 2011, para. 19
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- The right to the highest attainable standard of health is a fundamental human right, legally enshrined at the international, regional and national levels. The enjoyment of the right to health is recognized by numerous international human rights instruments, including those that have been created to protect the human rights of particular groups, such as children, women, persons with disabilities and those who are subject to discrimination on the basis of race (E/CN.4/2003/58, paras. 10-21). The most important formulation of the right to health is contained in article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which provides the cornerstone protection of the right to health in international 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
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The realization of the right to health of older persons 2011, para. 20
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- Internationally recognized human rights standards and principles as contained in core international human rights treaties cover and protect older persons. Despite this tacit protection, it has increasingly been argued that there is a gap in the international human rights system because there is currently no specific universal human rights instrument on the rights of older persons. Specific provisions focusing on older persons, such as those which exist for some other categories of vulnerable persons such as women, children, persons with disabilities, and migrant workers, are also lacking.
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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
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Unhealthy foods, non-communicable diseases and the right to health 2014, para. 23
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- To address the issue of aggressive marketing, some States have supported self-regulation and have allowed food companies to voluntarily regulate their practices related to marketing and nutritional content of unhealthy foods to children. Companies often voluntarily adopt self-formulated guidelines and standards to restrict Government regulation and respond public demands. They have also taken joint initiatives and formulated guidelines for member companies to restrict advertising and promoting practices with respect to children. However, self-regulation by companies has not had any significant effect on altering food marketing strategies. Due to a variety of reasons, such as the non-binding nature of such self-regulation, lack of benchmarks and transparency, inconsistent definition of children and different nutrition criteria, companies may be able to circumvent guidelines, blunting the intended effect of marketing guidelines they instituted.
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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
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health in early childhood - Right to survival and development 2015, para. 10
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- The reduction of under-5 mortality has been at the heart of the global development and public health agendas. The Millennium Development Goals called for a reduction of under-5 mortality by two thirds between 1990 and 2015 (goal 4). Global commitments such as the Millennium Development Goads have provided impetus for global strategies as well as national plans to accelerate progress, most notably the Secretary-General's 2010 Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health and Every Newborn: An Action Plan to End Preventable Deaths, issued by WHO in 2014. These documents have helped galvanize international and national action as well provided technical guidance for reducing under-5 mortality and morbidity.
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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)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health in early childhood - Right to survival and development 2015, para. 19
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- The technical guidance (A/HRC/27/31) is a major contribution. It sets out the human rights dimensions of under-5 morbidity and mortality and explains how to apply human rights-based approaches to address the problem. It provides detailed operational guidance for legislative measures, governance and coordination, planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, remedies and redress and international cooperation. The Special Rapporteur endorses the systematic approach of the technical guidance as a significant step towards the reduction and elimination of preventable deaths of children under 5 years of age.
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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)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health in early childhood - Right to survival and development 2015, para. 20
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- The global health community has also given attention to the human rights dimensions of under-5 mortality and morbidity and has committed to ground its efforts in human rights. The Secretary-General's Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health is grounded in global human rights commitments and emphasizes that legislation and policies should be in line with human rights. The new global strategy, which is to replace the existing strategy in the coming months, will call for the integration of human rights in all efforts to improve women's, children's and adolescents' health.
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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)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health in early childhood - Right to survival and development 2015, para. 36
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- In this regard, the rights of the newborn, as a rights holder, need to be addressed. Newborn children are too often not considered as deserving the status of autonomous individuals and rights holders and therefore not deserving respect and dignity. Young children, from the first days of their lives, are not only exposed to the environment in which they live but are actively shaping their surroundings by means of their presence and different forms of communication. In paragraph 10 of the recommendations adopted on its day of general discussion on implementing child rights in early childhood, held in September 2004, the Committee on the Rights of the Child underlined that the concept of the child as rights holder is "anchored in the child's daily life from the earliest stage" (para. 10).
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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
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health in early childhood - Right to survival and development 2015, para. 104
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- States, as primary duty bearers under international human rights law, are under a duty to protect the right to health by ensuring that the actions of third parties contribute to and do not jeopardize it. For example, States must support and assist, to the maximum their extent of available resources, parents and caregivers to care for children and secure the living conditions necessary for their health and optimal development; and protect child victims of violence and witnesses and investigate and punish those responsible for its occurrence.
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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
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Report of the SR on the right to health and Agenda 2030 2016, para. 58
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- The fields of global health and human rights have, in recent years, developed accountability analysis and institutions, which can inspire accountability for the health-related Sustainable Development Goals and help to shape new arrangements. In 2011, the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health, established to propose a framework to ensure that commitments made under the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health (2010-2015) were met, proposed a tripartite model of accountability, composed of monitoring, review and remedial action. That model, derived from the human rights understanding of accountability, was subsequently taken up by the Secretary-General, including in the Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health 2016-2030, which supports the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals related to women's, children's and adolescents' health.
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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
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 63
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- The commitment expressed in the Global Strategy on Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health 2016-2030 to improve national and global accountability, including for adolescent health, is welcome, as is the broader commitment to accountability in the Sustainable Development Goals. In this connection, States should ensure the quality and timely collection of appropriately disaggregated data and that laws, policies and programmes concerning adolescent health are transparently and regularly reviewed. National assessments or public inquiries into adolescents' right to health are welcome and could be conducted by national institutions.
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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
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 99
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- States should adopt appropriate measures to protect children from illicit drug use and involvement in the illicit drug trade. However, this must be read in the context of the protections afforded by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other human rights obligations. Almost all States have obligations under the three United Nations drug control conventions, which must be read in conformity with concurrent human rights obligations. The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control contains specific provisions aimed at the protection of children and young people, and which complement the right to health.
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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)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Youth
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Sports and healthy lifestyles as contributing factors to the right to health 2016, para. 19
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- States should ensure full compatibility between sport policies, rules, programmes and practices, and human rights law, and should intensify their efforts to prevent systemic and ad hoc rights violations perpetrated by third parties. States should develop policies that incorporate international human rights standards, and should require public and third-party providers to adopt policies that are compatible with human rights standards, making funding or support contingent on that adoption, where appropriate. For example, sport policy programmes could require national sports organizations to respect the Convention on the Rights of the Child and to conduct mandatory monitoring of child rights in sports.
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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
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Sports and healthy lifestyles as contributing factors to the right to health 2016, para. 48
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- International sporting actors must take more action to ensure that the rights of children participating in their competitions or events are protected. Presently, there are no consistent minimum age limits for competing in international adult sporting events, nor is there any coordinated action regarding the international movement of children and adolescents for participation in high-level or professional sport. Responsibility for the well-being of young athletes is often delegated to States or national sporting organizations. International sporting actors should standardize policies and protocols concerning the participation of children in high-level or professional sport in order to protect the children's health and other human rights.
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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
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Youth
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Sports and healthy lifestyles as contributing factors to the right to health 2016, para. 87
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- Private entities, including transnational corporations, should ensure that their operations do not undermine the realization of individual health rights. In particular, companies that produce tobacco, food or beverages should abide by industry- or Government-led regulations on marketing products to children in the sporting context. Companies involved in major sporting events must also ensure that their operations meet human rights standards, and must fully implement the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights - a responsibility shared with international sporting bodies.
- 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
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Sports and healthy lifestyles as contributing factors to the right to health 2016, para. 89
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- It is encouraging that human rights are increasingly emphasized in the operations of these organizations, for instance through the International Olympic Committee code of ethics. The recent appointment of an independent human rights expert to review the policies of FIFA in relation to the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights is encouraging, as is the implementation by FIFA in 2010 of regulations on the status and transfer of players. However, more must be done to ensure that the right to health of athletes participating in these events is secured, particularly that of children.
- 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
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health in early childhood - Right to survival and development 2015, para. 7
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- Definitions of early childhood vary by country and region. The Committee on the Rights of the Child establishes the limit of early childhood at 8 years of age. This is a common categorization for early childhood used by, among others, the World Health Organization (WHO). In the present report, the Special Rapporteur focuses on children under 5 years of age. This age group is commonly further divided into the neonatal period (0-28 days), infancy (the first year of life) and the preschool years (1-5 years).
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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)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health in early childhood - Right to survival and development 2015, para. 18
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- In that resolution, the Human Rights Council requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), in close collaboration with WHO and in consultation with other partners, to prepare a report on the practical application of the technical guidance on the application of a human rights-based approach to the implementation of policies and programmes to reduce and eliminate preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age.
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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)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health in early childhood - Right to survival and development 2015, para. 21
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- Human rights are also one of six guiding principles of Every Newborn: An Action Plan to End Preventable Deaths. The Action Plan highlights that all planning and programming for reproductive, maternal and newborn health should be guided by principles and standards derived from international human rights treaties. A range of operational tools have also been developed to help States to systematically apply human rights standards in law, policy and service delivery for young children and their caregivers.
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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)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Youth
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health in early childhood - Right to survival and development 2015, para. 96
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- The Convention on the Rights of the Child provides a comprehensive normative and legally binding framework to address the right to health and the holistic development of the young child. States have legally binding obligations to adopt and implement laws, regulations, policies, budgetary measures, programmes and other initiatives to ensure the respect, protection and fulfilment of the right to health, including healthy development, in early childhood.
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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
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Youth
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health in early childhood - Right to survival and development 2015, para. 112i
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- [In this connection, the Special Rapporteur urges Governments:] To disseminate the technical guidance on the application of a human rights-based approach to the implementation of policies and programmes to reduce and eliminate preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age to all relevant government sectors and ensure its systematic application in the development, implementation and review of laws, policies, budgets and programmes;
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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)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health and criminalization of same-sex conduct and sexual orientation, sex-work and HIV transmission 2010, para. 32
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- Terms such as "vulnerability" and "abuse of power" remain undefined within the Protocol, and have no independent legal meaning. These terms require clarification, as failure to do so could lead to situations in which State responses to trafficking include sex workers who voluntarily enter the sex sector. For instance, the trafficking of women and children to participate in sex work has been conflated with voluntary participation in sex work in Cambodia, where the Law on the Suppression of Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation was introduced in 1998. The purpose of this legislation was the suppression of human trafficking and sexual exploitation, as stated in article 1, but the statute includes provisions that prohibit activities around sex work and effectively criminalize the sex sector in its entirety. The law prohibits solicitation, support of prostitution in any manner, sharing of benefits obtained from prostitution, management of an establishment for prostitution, or even selling premises knowing they will be used for prostitution, amongst other activities (chapt. IV). The penalties for breach of these laws are extreme, including the seizure of materials and proceeds, closure of businesses and, alarmingly, the restriction of civil rights (art. 48). This law has led to the detention of sex workers without arrest or imposition of criminal charges, as well as to rape and extortion, following raids.
- 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)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 23
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- Further group-specific protections are found in other human rights treaties, but the Committee on the Rights of the Child has been at the forefront of efforts to apply the right to health in the context of adolescents, notably in its general comment No. 4 (2003) on adolescent health and development in the context of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and general comment No. 15 (2013) on the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health.
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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)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health in early childhood - Right to survival and development 2015, para. 11
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- Significant progress has been made in reducing deaths among children under five, from 12.7 million deaths in 1990 to 6.3 million deaths in 2013. However, progress has been insufficient to meet goal 4, particularly in Oceania, sub-Saharan Africa, the Caucasus and Central Asia and Southern Asia.
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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)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health in early childhood - Right to survival and development 2015, para. 23
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- Nevertheless, there are still very few concrete examples of the actual practical application of a human rights-based approach to child survival and development. In order to make a difference, States should be intentional and explicit about the application of a human rights-based approach in their laws, policies, programmes, budgets and other measures.
- 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)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health in early childhood - Right to survival and development 2015, para. 35
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- Infants and young children are holders of all rights enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child as well as other international human rights treaties. The Convention affords special protection for early childhood in recognition of the important and particular challenges facing this age group and the progressive exercise of their rights, in accordance with their evolving capacities.
- 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
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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