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Traffic in women and girls 1999, para. 11
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- Invites Governments, with the support of the United Nations, to formulate manuals for the training of personnel who receive and/or hold in temporary custody victims of gender-based violence, including trafficking, taking into account current research and data on traumatic stress and gender-sensitive counselling techniques, with a view to sensitizing them to the special needs of the victims;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1999
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Promoting the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health through enhancing capacity-building in public health 2016, para. 9
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- Encourages United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, in particular the World Health Organization as the lead United Nations agency on health, in accordance with their respective mandates and as appropriate, to continue to address public health concerns in their activities and programmes, and to actively support capacity-building in global public health, such as through the provision of technical and other relevant assistance to developing countries, including the least developed countries, small island developing States and landlocked developing countries;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The right to food 2016, para. 37
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- Takes note with appreciation of the interim report of the Special Rapporteur, which addresses, inter alia, factors affecting nutrition, including industrial food systems, unhealthy eating environments and the growing threat of non-communicable diseases;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Promoting the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health through enhancing capacity-building in public health 2016, para. 1
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- Urges Member States and the international community to increase investment, building on existing mechanisms and through partnership, to improve health systems in developing countries and countries with economies in transition with the aim of providing sufficient health workers, infrastructures, management systems and supplies to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health 2007, para. 2a
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- [Encourages the Special Rapporteur, in fulfilling her/his mandate:] To continue to explore how efforts to realize the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health can reinforce poverty reduction strategies;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2007
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Promoting the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health through enhancing capacity-building in public health 2016, para. 2
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- Calls upon Member States to take the primary responsibility for strengthening their capacity-building in public health to detect and respond rapidly to outbreaks of major infectious diseases through the establishment and improvement of effective public health mechanisms, including full implementation of the International Health Regulations (2005), and strategies for training, recruitment and retention of sufficient public health personnel, and systems of prevention and of immunization against infectious diseases;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Promoting the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health through enhancing capacity-building in public health 2016, para. 10
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- Encourages the mechanisms of the Human Rights Council, especially the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, within their existing mandates, to continue to address public health concerns in their activities and programmes, and where feasible to support capacity-building in global public health, such as through the provision of technical and other relevant assistance to developing countries;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health 2007, para. 2b
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- [Encourages the Special Rapporteur, in fulfilling her/his mandate:] To continue the analysis of the human rights dimensions of the issues of neglected diseases and diseases particularly affecting developing countries, and also the national and international dimensions of those issues;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2007
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The protection of human rights in the context of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiencysyndrome (AIDS) 2011, para. 14
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- Encourages all States to consider eliminating HIV-specific restrictions on entry, stay and residence and ensure that people living with HIV are no longer excluded, detained or deported on the basis of their HIV status;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2011
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Promoting the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health through enhancing capacity-building in public health 2016, para. 3
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- Encourages States to promote access to medicines for all, including through the use, to the full, of the provisions of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights which provide flexibility for that purpose, recognizing that the protection of intellectual property is important for the development of new medicines, as well as the concerns about its effects on prices;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health 2007, para. 2c
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- [Encourages the Special Rapporteur, in fulfilling her/his mandate:] To continue to pay particular attention to the identification of good practices for the effective operationalization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2007
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The right to food 2016, para. 36
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- Recognizes that the promises made at the World Food Summit in 1996 to halve the number of persons who are undernourished are not being fulfilled, while recognizing the efforts of Member States in this regard, and once again invites all international financial and development institutions, and the relevant United Nations agencies and funds, to give priority to and provide the funding necessary to realize the right to food, as set out in the Rome Declaration on World Food Security, and to achieve the aims of Sustainable Development Goal 2 and other food and nutrition-related targets;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 8
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- Encourages States to consider presenting, during the universal periodic review, relevant recommendations on measures to eliminate female genital mutilation;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The right to food 2016, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirms that hunger constitutes an outrage and a violation of human dignity, and therefore requires the adoption of urgent measures at the national, regional and international levels for its elimination;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment: safeguards to prevent torture during police custody and pretrial detention 2016, para. 8
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- Encourages States to ensure that a proper and consented medical examination by a medical practitioner is available to persons in police custody and pretrial detention as promptly as possible after their admission to the place of detention, and to ensure that the results of every examination and relevant statements by the detainee and the medical practitioner’s conclusions are duly recorded and made available to the detainee in accordance with relevant rules of domestic law;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The right to food 2015, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirms that hunger constitutes an outrage and a violation of human dignity and therefore requires the adoption of urgent measures at the national, regional and international levels for its elimination;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2015
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The right to food 2015, para. 33
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- Recognizes that the commitments made at the World Food Summit in 1996 to halve the number of people who are undernourished are not being fulfilled, while recognizing the efforts of Member States in that regard, and urges all States and international financial and development institutions, as well as relevant United Nations agencies and funds, to give priority to and provide the necessary funding to realize the aim of halving by 2015 the number, or at least the proportion, of people who suffer from hunger, as stated in Millennium Development Goal 1, as well as the right to food, as set out in the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the United Nations Millennium Declaration;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2015
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The right to food 2014, para. 31
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- Recognizes that the commitments made at the World Food Summit in 1996 to halve the number of people who are undernourished are not being fulfilled, while recognizing the efforts of Member States in that regard, and urges all States and international financial and development institutions, as well as relevant United Nations agencies and funds, to give priority to and provide the necessary funding to realize the aim of halving by 2015 the number, or at least the proportion, of people who suffer from hunger, as stated in Millennium Development Goal 1, as well as the right to food, as set out in the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the United Nations Millennium Declaration;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts and sharing good practices to effectively eliminate female genital mutilation 2014, para. 14
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- Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare, in consultation with States, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Population Fund, the treaty bodies, relevant special procedures, regional organizations, national human rights institutions, civil society and other relevant stakeholders, a compilation of good practices and major challenges in preventing and eliminating female genital mutilation, and to submit it to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-ninth session;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Children
- Year
- 2014
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The right to food 2014, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirms that hunger constitutes an outrage and a violation of human dignity and therefore requires the adoption of urgent measures at the national, regional and international levels for its elimination;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health: sport and healthy lifestyles as contributing factors 2014, para. 6
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- Calls upon the international community to continue to assist developing countries in promoting the full realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including through financial and technical support and training of personnel, while recognizing that the primary responsibility for promoting and protecting all human rights rests with States;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health: sport and healthy lifestyles as contributing factors 2014, para. 2
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- Acknowledges with appreciation the report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health on the subject of unhealthy food and diet-related non-communicable diseases, while recognizing that other risk factors of non-communicable diseases should also be addressed, and invites States to give due consideration to the recommendations of the Special Rapporteur;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health: sport and healthy lifestyles as contributing factors 2014, para. 7
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- Requests the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health to prepare, in consultation with Member States, United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, international and regional organizations and civil society, including non-governmental organizations, and relevant stakeholders a study on the theme “Sport and healthy lifestyles as contributing factors to the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health”, and to present it to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-second session.
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Rights of the child: The right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health 2013, para. 44
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- Recognizes that the effective and financially sustainable implementation of universal health coverage is based on a resilient and responsive health system that provides comprehensive primary health-care services, with extensive geographical coverage, including in remote and rural areas, and with special emphasis on access to populations most in need, and has an adequate skilled, well-trained and motivated workforce, as well as capacities for broad public health measures, health protection and addressing determinants of health through policies across sectors, including promoting the health literacy of the population;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Children
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The right to food 2013, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirms that hunger constitutes an outrage and a violation of human dignity and therefore requires the adoption of urgent measures at the national, regional and international levels for its elimination;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The right to food 2013, para. 28
- Paragraph text
- Recognizes that the commitments made at the World Food Summit in 1996 to halve the number of people who are undernourished are not being fulfilled, while recognizing the efforts of Member States in that regard, and urges all States and international financial and development institutions, as well as relevant United Nations agencies and funds, to give priority to and provide the necessary funding for realizing the aim of halving by 2015 the number, or at least the proportion, of people who suffer from hunger, as stated in Millennium Development Goal 1, as well as the right to food, as set out in the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the United Nations Millennium Declaration;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The right to food 2012, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirms that hunger constitutes an outrage and a violation of human dignity and therefore requires the adoption of urgent measures at the national, regional and international levels for its elimination;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2012
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The right to food 2012, para. 13
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- Stresses that the primary responsibility of States is to promote and protect the right to food and that the international community should provide, through a coordinated response and upon request, international cooperation in support for national and regional efforts by providing the assistance necessary to increase food production, particularly through agricultural development assistance, the transfer of technology, food crop rehabilitation assistance and food aid ensuring food and nutrition security, with a special focus on the gender-sensitive dimension;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2012
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The right to food 2012, para. 28
- Paragraph text
- Recognizes that the commitments made at the World Food Summit in 1996 to halve the number of people who are undernourished are not being fulfilled, while recognizing the efforts of Member States in that regard, and urges all States and international financial and development institutions, as well as the relevant United Nations agencies and funds, to give priority to and provide the necessary funding for realizing the aim of halving by 2015 the number, or at least the proportion, of people who suffer from hunger, as stated in Millennium Development Goal 1, as well as the right to food, as set out in the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the United Nations Millennium Declaration;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2012
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health in the context of development and access to medicines 2011, para. 10
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- Emphasizes the central role of prevention, particularly through the promotion of healthy lifestyles and through the strengthening of health systems, as part of a comprehensive approach to communicable and non-communicable diseases, and urges all States, United Nations agencies and programmes and relevant intergovernmental organizations, within their respective mandates, and encourages non-governmental organizations and relevant stakeholders, including the private sector, to promote innovative research and development, the availability and affordability of safe, effective and good-quality medicines for non-communicable diseases, and to address the challenges arising from the growing burden of such diseases;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2011
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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