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Report on expert consultation on access to medicines 2011, para. 49a
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- [On the basis of the presentations and discussions, the Special Rapporteur believes the expert consultation suggests that States should:] Establish an adequate legal framework for the realization of the right to access to medicines;
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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
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2011
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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Report of the SR on the right to health and Agenda 2030 2016, para. 102
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- The 2030 Agenda provides momentum to pave the way, both in developing and developed countries, for sustainable investments in modern public health policies and break the vicious cycle of poverty, inequities, social exclusion, discrimination and violence. States and other actors implementing the Sustainable Development Goals must not be tempted to target the "low-hanging fruit" at the expense of the most marginalized and vulnerable.
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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
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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Report of the SR on the right to health and Agenda 2030 2016, para. 103b
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- [As a matter of priority, the Special Rapporteur recommends that:] Member States ensure attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals through the review of existing national and local legal and policy frameworks to assess their compatibility with the right to health and ensure that national laws, policies and programmes include targeted actions to support enabling legal and policy environments, with attention to the rule of law, health governance, law enforcement and access to justice;
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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
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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Report of the SR on the right to health and Agenda 2030 2016, para. 103m
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- [As a matter of priority, the Special Rapporteur recommends that:] Member States ensure that the focus on access to essential medicines and other life-saving interventions does not neglect equally important non biomedical interventions, including psychosocial interventions, that promote mental and physical health and well-being, reduce violence and contribute to the realization of the right to health and the Sustainable Development Goals;
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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
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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Unhealthy foods, non-communicable diseases and the right to health 2014, para. 67a
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- [With a view to making accountability and remedial mechanisms available and accessible to victims of violations, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States take the following steps:] Ensure that international investment and trade agreements are entered into with full transparency and participation of affected groups by conducting open discussions before, during and after negotiation of the agreements;
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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
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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Occupational health 2012, para. 60a
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- [The Special Rapporteur recommends that States take the following steps in order to realize the right to occupational health:] Extend existing occupational health laws and policies to cover the informal workforce, and establish innovative laws and policies to support direct occupational health interventions in the informal economy, with special attention paid to its gendered aspects. This should include: Social health insurance programmes that cover all informal workers, which, to the greatest extent possible, must be tailored to address the specific occupational health risks faced by informal workers in their respective sectors; Occupational health services that are provided where informal workers work; Primary healthcare interventions that are designed to educate and train informal workers about occupational 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
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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Occupational health 2012, para. 60d
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- [The Special Rapporteur recommends that States take the following steps in order to realize the right to occupational health:] Ensure mechanisms are in place to monitor and evaluate occupational health prior to the formulation and implementation of occupational health laws and policies. These should include: Disease and epidemiological surveillance, including the collection of disaggregated data; Human rights and health impact assessments and risk surveillance; Development, with the direct participation of workers, of the right to health indicators and benchmarks, against which occupational health laws and policies must be measured.
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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
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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Report on expert consultation on access to medicines 2011, para. 49i
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- [On the basis of the presentations and discussions, the Special Rapporteur believes the expert consultation suggests that States should:] Ensure that procurement practices and procedures are transparent, fair and competitive;
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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
- N.A.
- Year
- 2011
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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Health financing in the context of the right to health 2012, para. 56a
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- [The Special Rapporteur urges States to take the following steps in order to ensure adequate funds are available for health:] Implement a progressively structured system of general taxation to fund health or improve upon the progressivity of such systems where they already exist;
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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
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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Health financing in the context of the right to health 2012, para. 56b
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- [The Special Rapporteur urges States to take the following steps in order to ensure adequate funds are available for health:] Ensure that consumption taxes, such as excise taxes and VAT, are not regressive. This may include setting appropriate thresholds below which small enterprises are not subject to taxation and reducing or removing consumption taxes on necessity goods;
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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
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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Right to health in conflict situations 2013, para. 70g
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- [The Special Rapporteur urges States involved in conflict situations:] To engage with non-State armed groups, through voluntary agreements, to facilitate access to health facilities, goods and services;
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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
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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Health financing in the context of the right to health 2012, para. 60b (ii)
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- [The Special Rapporteur urges States to take the following steps in order to equitably allocate funds for health:] Ensure that good quality health facilities, goods and services are available and accessible on a non-discriminatory basis for rural and remote populations. This will require: Creation of incentives for health workers, such as competitive salaries, tax abatements, rotational postings and accelerated career advancements to work in rural and remote areas.
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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
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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Health financing in the context of the right to health 2012, para. 60b (i)
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- [The Special Rapporteur urges States to take the following steps in order to equitably allocate funds for health:] Ensure that good quality health facilities, goods and services are available and accessible on a non-discriminatory basis for rural and remote populations. This will require: Increased investment in physical health infrastructure in rural and remote communities;
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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
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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Report of the SR on the right to health and Agenda 2030 2016, para. 103w
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- [As a matter of priority, the Special Rapporteur recommends that:] Member States ensure the collection of high-quality and timely data for the Sustainable Development Goals that are disaggregated in line with the "stratifiers" identified in the 2030 Agenda, and on further grounds as appropriate in the health context of different countries, in order to make visible the reality and needs of marginalized populations;
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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
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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Health financing in the context of the right to health 2012, para. 55
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- The right to health approach to health financing provides a framework with which to ensure adequate, equitable and sustainable health financing. The approach addresses three critical areas in health financing: how States ensure adequate funds are available for health and the sources from which they raise these funds; how these funds are pooled; and how funds and resources are allocated within health systems towards ensuring universal access to good quality health facilities, goods and services.
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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
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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Occupational health 2012, para. 60j
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- [The Special Rapporteur recommends that States take the following steps in order to realize the right to occupational health:] Ensure that prospective and retrospective accountability mechanisms are available and accessible to workers. These should include: Social audits; Consumer forums and patient's rights associations; National human rights ombudsmen; Human rights and health impact assessments; Human rights commissions; Judicial review.
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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
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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Report of the SR on the right to health and Agenda 2030 2016, para. 101
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- The Sustainable Development Goals and the right-to-health framework have much to offer each other. Importantly, where the health-related Goals show weakness and lack of clarity with regard to implementation, the right to health will be a powerful tool to ensure effective and equitable achievement of the Goals. Embedding equity, non-discrimination and equality, participation and accountability in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda firmly harnesses the normative value of human rights, placing them at the heart of the Goals.
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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
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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Health financing in the context of the right to health 2012, para. 56e
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- [The Special Rapporteur urges States to take the following steps in order to ensure adequate funds are available for health:] Find ways to collect taxes from businesses in the informal sector, contingent upon the provision of State services and other benefits associated with being a taxable entity to such businesses.
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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
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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Access to medicines in the context of the right-to-health framework 2013, para. 70a
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- [With regard to long-term security and affordability of medicines, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States:] Develop a policy framework on local production of medicines to ensure long-term accessibility and affordability of medicines;
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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
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
Paragraph
Occupational health 2012, para. 60b
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- [The Special Rapporteur recommends that States take the following steps in order to realize the right to occupational health:] Ensure that in cases where work is contractualized or informalized that workers do not lose protections under existing occupational health laws and policies.
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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
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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Unhealthy foods, non-communicable diseases and the right to health 2014, para. 64d
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- [With a view to respecting, protecting and fulfilling the right to health, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States take the following steps:] Adopt, implement and enforce easy-to-understand labelling and nutritional profiling requirements, such as "traffic light" labelling;
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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
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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Report of the SR on the right to health and Agenda 2030 2016, para. 103d
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- [As a matter of priority, the Special Rapporteur recommends that:] Member States explicitly prohibit discrimination on any grounds that has the intention or effect of nullifying or impairing the equal enjoyment or exercise of the right to health and, in this connection, review existing laws, policies and practices, with the aim of removing those that are discriminatory in nature and practice and obstruct implementation of the key principles of the Sustainable Development Goals;
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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
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
Paragraph
Criminalisation of sexual and reproductive health 2011, para. 65b
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- [In applying a right-to-health approach, States should undertake reforms toward the development and implementation of policies and programmes relating to sexual and reproductive health as required by international human rights law. In that context, the Special Rapporteur calls upon States to:] Develop comprehensive family planning policies and programmes, which provide a wide range of goods, services and information relating to contraception and are available, accessible and of good quality;
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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
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2011
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
Paragraph
Occupational health 2012, para. 60e
- Paragraph text
- [The Special Rapporteur recommends that States take the following steps in order to realize the right to occupational health:] Ensure mechanisms are in place to monitor and evaluate occupational health after the implementation of occupational health laws and policies. These should include: Development, with the direct participation of workers, of the right to health indicators and benchmarks, against which occupational health laws and policies must be measured.
- 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
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
Paragraph
Occupational health 2012, para. 60i
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- [The Special Rapporteur recommends that States take the following steps in order to realize the right to occupational health:] Implement social health insurance for workers not covered by their employers, which provides direct coverage or subsidizes the purchase of private insurance. Insurance coverage should: Include preventative, promotive and curative health services; Be tailored to address the specific occupational health risks faced by workers in their respective work sectors.
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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
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
Paragraph
Health financing in the context of the right to health 2012, para. 59d (iii)
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- [The Special Rapporteur urges States to take the following steps in order to pool funds for health:] Ensure that benefits under social health insurance programmes include a minimum set of health goods and services and are available and universally accessible based on need. Benefits packages must: Include essential medicines and generic drugs in order to ensure access to safe, effective and affordable medicines.
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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
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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Occupational health 2012, para. 60k
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- [The Special Rapporteur recommends that States take the following steps in order to realize the right to occupational health:] Incorporate the right to occupational health protections into all free trade agreements and prioritize the occupational health of workers over trade concerns. As a part of this process all free trade agreements should undergo a human rights impact assessment prior to conclusion of the agreement.
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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
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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Right to health in conflict situations 2013, para. 71a
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- [The Special Rapporteur urges States recovering from conflict:] To formulate and implement plans for the reconstruction of infrastructure and delivery of underlying determinants, with particular attention to the needs of vulnerable groups. States should formulate laws to ensure the equitable distribution of underlying determinants and for the realization of the right to health of all people, especially vulnerable groups;
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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
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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The right to health and development 2011, para. 60b
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- [The Special Rapporteur recommends that:] States take measures to ensure that information on the right to health framework, including the need for transparency, accountability and participation of individuals and communities in decision-making that has a bearing on their health, is disseminated and its use promoted in development-related areas;
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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
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2011
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
Paragraph
Report on expert consultation on access to medicines 2011, para. 49k
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- [On the basis of the presentations and discussions, the Special Rapporteur believes the expert consultation suggests that States should:] Ensure that countries are able to take full advantage of TRIPS flexibilities, and to comply with them;
- 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
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2011
- Paragraph type
- Conclusion / Recommendation
Paragraph