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Food, nutrition and the right to health | Dec 12, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2023 | A/78/185 | ||||||
Digital innovation, technologies and the right to health | Dec 12, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2023 | A/HRC/53/65 | ||||||
Racism and the right to healt | Dec 12, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2022 | A/77/197 | ||||||
Violence and its impact on the right to health | Dec 12, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2022 | A/HRC/50/28 | ||||||
Sexual and reproductive health rights: challenges and opportunities during COVID-19 | Dec 12, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2021 | A/76/172 | ||||||
Strategic priorities of work | Dec 12, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2021 | A/HRC/47/28 | ||||||
Commentary on the COVID-19 Pandemic | Dec 11, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2020 | A/75/163 | ||||||
Mental Health and Human Rights: Setting a Rights-based Global Agenda | Dec 11, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2020 | A/HRC/44/48 | ||||||
A human rights-based approach to health workforce education | Dec 11, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2019 | A/74/174 | ||||||
The role of the determinants of health in advancing the right to mental health | Dec 11, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2019 | A/HRC/41/34 | ||||||
Right to mental health of people on the move | Dec 11, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2018 | A/73/216 | ||||||
Deprivation of liberty and the right to health1 | Dec 11, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2018 | A/HRC/38/36 | ||||||
Right to health and criminalization of same-sex conduct and sexual orientation, sex-work and HIV transmission 2010, para. 34 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Globally, there have been periods where sex work has been highly regulated or decriminalized, generally to manage certain aspects of sex work or to achieve control of disease, particularly within the military. However, prohibitions against sex work are regarded as "notoriously difficult to enforce" and of questionable utility where enforcement is accompanied by extortion and brutality. In recent times, significant opposition has arisen to the imposition of criminal sanctions against sex workers, and certain nations have amended laws to decriminalize sex work. |
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Right to health and criminalization of same-sex conduct and sexual orientation, sex-work and HIV transmission 2010, para. 39 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Stigmatization has been cited as the major factor preventing sex workers from accessing their rights. Laws criminalizing or onerously regulating sex work compound the stigmatization experienced by sex workers, adversely affecting health outcomes, often without justification on the grounds of public health. The Geschlechtskrankheitengesetz, a law in Germany designed to combat venereal disease, required prostitutes to undergo mandatory medical examinations. This law legally stigmatized sex workers as being almost solely responsible for the spread of venereal disease, despite the absence of epidemiological studies to support this. The law has since been amended to provide for voluntary, anonymous testing. |
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Right to health and criminalization of same-sex conduct and sexual orientation, sex-work and HIV transmission 2010, para. 44 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Moreover, the criminalization of practices related to sex work can create barriers to the realization of safe working conditions. For instance, where laws exist prohibiting the running of a brothel, those who invariably subvert the law and run such a business can impose unsafe working conditions without difficulty, as sex workers themselves have no recourse to legal mechanisms through which they can demand safer working conditions. Where criminalization in any form exists, the protection offered by a brothel or a manager may become increasingly desirable or necessary, but this also comes at a price: fiscally, through the opportunities created for extortion, and in terms of health. |
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Right to health and criminalization of same-sex conduct and sexual orientation, sex-work and HIV transmission 2010, para. 35 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | For example, New Zealand decriminalized sex work in 2003, with the express aim of safeguarding the human rights of sex workers. Prior to decriminalization, sex workers were less willing to disclose their occupation to health workers or to carry condoms. Since decriminalization, sex workers have reported feeling that they have enforceable rights, including the rights to health and security of person, and are increasingly able to refuse particular clients and practices, and negotiate safer sex. |
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Right to health and criminalization of same-sex conduct and sexual orientation, sex-work and HIV transmission 2010, para. 37 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | The use of punitive measures against sex workers, such as antisocial behaviour orders in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, has undermined effective health promotion activities. Raids, cautions and arrests generally result in a shift of the sex worker population, often towards unsafe areas, putting sex workers at higher risk. Criminalization has also been noted to diminish the "bargaining power" of sex workers in choosing clients and negotiating condom use. |
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Right to health and criminalization of same-sex conduct and sexual orientation, sex-work and HIV transmission 2010, para. 47 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Criminalization represents a barrier to participation and collective action, through the suppression of activities of civil society and individual advocates. The participation of sex workers in interventions has been shown to have significant benefits. Organizations representing sex workers took an early lead in attempting to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS, through the promotion of condom use, the development of AIDS education programmes and inclusive research studies. |
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Right to health and criminalization of same-sex conduct and sexual orientation, sex-work and HIV transmission 2010, para. 50 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Decriminalization also assists in appropriately targeting these health promotion projects, as sex workers are more likely to self-identify and voluntarily take part in interventions if the risk of legal repercussion is eliminated. Effective interventions around the health of sex workers and clients should also consider shared responsibility and client behaviour; this is increasingly possible in an environment where clients are not criminalized for using the services of sex workers. |
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Right to health and criminalization of same-sex conduct and sexual orientation, sex-work and HIV transmission 2010, para. 76b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | [The Special Rapporteur calls upon States:] To repeal all laws criminalizing sex work and practices around it, and to establish appropriate regulatory frameworks within which sex workers can enjoy the safe working conditions to which they are entitled. He recommends that States implement programmes and educational initiatives to allow sex workers access to appropriate, quality health services; |
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Right to health and criminalization of same-sex conduct and sexual orientation, sex-work and HIV transmission 2010, para. 36 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Criminalization represents a barrier to accessing services, establishing therapeutic relationships and continuing treatment regimes, leading to poorer health outcomes for sex workers, as they may fear legal consequences or harassment and judgement. This is particularly concerning given that HIV has been noted to disproportionately affect sex workers in many regions. |
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Right to health and criminalization of same-sex conduct and sexual orientation, sex-work and HIV transmission 2010, para. 40 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | In China, laws have evolved to allow for the punishment of sex workers through administrative detention; workers are detained for the purposes of re-education, which causes significant psychological suffering, along with stigmatization and shaming of those involved in sex work in the region. |
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Adolescence is a life stage of intrinsic value, not merely a transition between childhood and adulthood. It is a critical developmental stage characterized by growing cognitive abilities and emotional competencies, during which the brain has substantial neural plasticity. The physical, mental and social potential established during the second decade contributes to enhanced intellectual ability and emotional functioning throughout adulthood. |
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 110 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | The Special Rapporteur would like to link his recommendations with the global call to double investment in adolescence as a major precondition of successfully attaining the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals. |
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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. 74 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | The Special Rapporteur recommends that States ratify the Optional Protocols to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure, thereby recognizing the competence of the respective committees to consider individual communications with a view to ensuring the availability of an international adjudicatory mechanism for individuals whose right to health has been violated. The Special Rapporteur further recommends that States recognize the competence of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to receive and consider inter-State communications. |
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The right to mental health 2017, para. 87 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | The urgent need for a shift in approach should prioritize policy innovation at the population level, targeting social determinants and abandon the predominant medical model that seeks to cure individuals by targeting “disorders”. |
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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. 54 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | International investment agreements may provide for exceptions that can be used by States to defend laws in the public interest, such as public health laws. Even where international investment agreements contain such exceptions, however, investor rights may trump them. After Uruguay had entered into a bilateral investment treaty with Switzerland, it adopted public health measures on the packaging and advertisement of cigarettes, in accordance with local laws, which were enacted pursuant to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Although those measures accorded with the public health exception in the bilateral investment treaty, Phillip Morris International initiated a dispute against Uruguay, claiming that its law was unreasonable and breached the guarantee of fair and equitable treatment. |
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The right to mental health 2017, para. 89 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | There are already promising initiatives in place throughout the world, including in low- and middle-income countries, which challenge the status quo. Creating the space, through strong political leadership and resources, to enable those practices to take shape in communities is a powerful means to promote and advance the changes needed. |
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The right to mental health 2017, para. 47 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Discrimination, de jure and de facto, continues to influence mental health services, depriving users of a variety of rights, including the rights to refuse treatment, to legal capacity and to privacy, and other civil and political rights. The role of psychiatry and other mental health professions is particularly important and measures are needed to ensure that their professional practices do not perpetuate stigma and discrimination. |
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Sports and healthy lifestyles as contributing factors to the right to health 2016, para. 102a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | [The Special Rapporteur recommends that national human rights institutions, non-State actors and sporting bodies:] Periodically and independently monitor and promote realization of the right to health in the context of sport and physical activity (national human rights institutions and civil society); |
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