Search Tips
sorted by
30 shown of 10000+ entities
7 columns hidden
Title | Date added | Template | Original document | Paragraph text | Body | Document type | Thematics | Topic(s) | Person(s) affected | Year |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health 2007, para. 1a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Decides to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health for a further period of three years as reflected in article 25, paragraph 1, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and article 12 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, as well as on the right to non-discrimination as reflected in article 5 (e) (iv) of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Pursuant to resolutions 2002/31 and 2004/27 of the Commission on Human Rights, the mandate of the Special Rapporteur shall include the following tasks:] To gather, request, receive and exchange information from all relevant sources, including Governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, on the realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, as well as policies designed to achieve the health-related Millennium Development Goals; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
|
| 2007 | ||
Article 14: Right to Equality before Courts and Tribunals and to Fair Trial - replaces GC No. 13 2007, para. 63 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The way criminal proceedings are handled may affect the exercise and enjoyment of rights and guarantees of the Covenant unrelated to article 14. Thus, for instance, to keep pending, for several years, indictments for the criminal offence of defamation brought against a journalist for having published certain articles, in violation of article 14, paragraph 3 (c), may leave the accused in a situation of uncertainty and intimidation and thus have a chilling effect which unduly restricts the exercise of his right to freedom of expression (article 19 of the Covenant). Similarly, delays of criminal proceedings for several years in contravention of article 14, paragraph 3 (c), may violate the right of a person to leave one's own country as guaranteed in article 12, paragraph 2 of the Covenant, if the accused has to remain in that country as long as proceedings are pending. | Human Rights Committee
| General Comment / Recommendation |
|
| 2007 | ||
Right of everyone to take part in cultural life (Art. 15, para. 1(a)) 2009, para. 15b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [There are, among others, three interrelated main components of the right to participate or take part in cultural life: (a) participation in, (b) access to, and (c) contribution to cultural life.] Access covers in particular the right of everyone - alone, in association with others or as a community - to know and understand his or her own culture and that of others through education and information, and to receive quality education and training with due regard for cultural identity. Everyone has also the right to learn about forms of expression and dissemination through any technical medium of information or communication, to follow a way of life associated with the use of cultural goods and resources such as land, water, biodiversity, language or specific institutions, and to benefit from the cultural heritage and the creation of other individuals and communities; | Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights | General Comment / Recommendation |
|
| 2009 | ||
Preliminary survey on the root causes of attacks and discrimination against persons with albinism 2016, para. 35 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Some countries with a record of attacks against persons with albinism have identified as a major problem the ambiguity between witchcraft on the one hand and the practice of traditional, herbal or alternative medicine on the other. This is further complicated by the secrecy surrounding witchcraft and the resulting difficulty in identifying its real practitioners in all cases. These matters raise the question of whether and how these occupations ought to be defined and regulated as a means of preventing human rights violations allegedly and actually committed by their practitioners. There is also the issue of whether witchcraft beliefs should be given any form of legal character or recognition when it is largely a supernatural phenomenon. Often, these issues are further complicated by the fact that many legal instruments addressing witchcraft are outdated and disconnected from current social realities. | Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2016 | ||
Article 25: The right to participate in public affairs, voting rights and the right of equal access to public service 1996, para. 13 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | State reports should describe the rules governing the right to vote, and the application of those rules in the period covered by the report. State reports should also describe factors which impede citizens from exercising the right to vote and the positive measures which have been adopted to overcome these factors. | Human Rights Committee
| General Comment / Recommendation |
|
| 1996 | ||
The right to just and favourable conditions of work (Art. 7) 2016, para. 65b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [States parties have a core obligation to ensure the satisfaction of, at the very least, minimum essential levels of the right to just and favourable conditions of work. Specifically, this requires States parties to:] Put in place a comprehensive system to combat gender discrimination at work, including with regard to remuneration; | Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights | General Comment / Recommendation |
|
| 2016 | ||
Manifestations and causes of domestic servitude 2010, para. 48 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Relevant economic factors include advance or deferred payment designed to increase dependency, payment that keeps workers below the poverty level, payment in kind only or prohibitions to freely change employers. | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2010 | ||
Sexual education 2010, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Sexuality is a complex process which, as human beings, we all without exception experience throughout our life and which has biological, psychological, social and cultural aspects that must be considered from a comprehensive viewpoint. | Special Rapporteur on the right to education | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2010 | ||
Lifelong learning and the right to education 2016, para. 106 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Technical and vocational education and training should be recognized as a linchpin in the concept of lifelong learning and as a font of skills development and professional excellence. Countries should focus on fostering entrepreneurship through an overall lifelong learning framework. States, along with social partners and enterprises, should develop innovative approaches to technical and vocational education and training in order to respond to the diverse aspirations and needs of individuals and societies in a rapidly globalizing world. | Special Rapporteur on the right to education | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2016 | ||
Acroecology and the right to food 2011, para. 26 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | In the past, Green Revolution approaches have focused primarily on boosting cereal crops. However, rice, wheat and maize are mainly sources of carbohydrates: they contain relatively little protein, and few of the other nutrients essential for adequate diets. The shift from diversified cropping systems to simplified cereal-based systems thus contributed to micronutrient malnutrition in many developing countries. Indeed, of the over 80,000 plant species available to humans, rice, wheat and maize supply the bulk of our protein and energy needs. Nutritionists now increasingly insist on the need for more diverse agro-ecosystems, in order to ensure a more diversified nutrient output of the farming systems. | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2011 | ||
Fisheries and the right to food 2012, para. 63e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [To preserve the long-term sustainability of fishing and the availability of local fish as food, in particular by combating overfishing, all States should:] Reduce the proportion of fish used for fishmeal purposes, including by promoting direct human consumption of some small and nutritious fish, curbing demand for fish proteins from fish higher up the food chain (such as tuna and salmon or farmed carnivorous species such as prawns) by affluent consumers, which leads to overexploitation of marine resources worldwide, and considering imposing restrictions on the proportion of fish that can be used for reduction purposes. | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2012 | ||
Assessing a decade of progress on the right to food 2013, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The right to food seeks to ensure access to adequate diets. Although access is necessary for individuals to be adequately nourished, it is not the only requirement. Obviously, food availability is also required (which necessitates appropriate functioning of markets to ensure that foodstuffs can travel from the producers to the markets and from food-surplus regions to food-deficit regions). Access to health-care services and sanitation, as well as adequate feeding practices, are also essential. In this regard, the right to food is also closely connected to the right to health and to what is described as adequate "utilization". | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2013 | ||
Climate change and internal displacement 2011, para. 36 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Other actors have also enriched the discussion by focusing on specific rights or the impact of climate change on particular groups. In addition to posing a direct threat to the right to life, the effects of climate change are expected to have negative implications for basic rights relating to food (A/HRC/7/5), housing (A/64/255), water and health, and affect the overall right to an adequate standard of living (A/HRC/10/61, paras. 21-38). Some of these analyses have highlighted the link between the lack of access to these rights and displacement. In the context of climate change, internally displaced persons are also a growing category of persons considered to be especially at risk, given the adverse material, social and psychological consequences commonly associated with displacement. These risks are heightened by the fact that the most serious effects of climate change, including displacement, are predicted to disproportionately affect poor regions and countries and populations already in a vulnerable situation owing to poverty and other factors. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2011 | ||
Penalization of people living in poverty 2011, para. 74 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Penalization measures are often motivated by prejudices and negative stereotypes that ignore the realities of disadvantage and exclusion and fail to recognize the daily struggle of persons living in poverty to overcome the multiple obstacles they face. Poverty is not a lifestyle choice. Homeless persons would prefer safe, affordable, adequate housing to public parks and bus stations. Those struggling to survive on social benefits would rather have secure, regular, well-paying, productive employment than be subject to discrimination and live in constant fear that their entitlements will be taken away. One does not choose to live in poverty, and therefore should not be punished for that situation. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2011 | ||
The right to participation of people living in poverty 2013, para. 42 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | People living in poverty experience discrimination on the grounds of poverty itself (E/C.12/GC/20, paras. 34-35), but also frequently due to membership in other disadvantaged sectors of the population, including but not limited to indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities and people living with HIV/AIDS. Particular attention must be paid to upholding the right to equality between men and women. Thus, when designing, implementing and monitoring participatory processes, States must take into account the different experiences of men and women and gender power relations in the community. They must recognize the multiple forms of discrimination that women experience, and address women's specific needs throughout the different phases of their life cycle (childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age). Participatory processes must also acknowledge the responsibilities of care providers without reinforcing patterns of discrimination and negative stereotyping. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2013 | ||
Taxation and human rightss 2014, para. 70 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Natural resources can be a vital source of revenue that the State can use to comply with its human rights obligations. The financial and social benefits of natural resource exploitation are, however, increasingly bypassing people in producing countries. In most countries, extractive industries generate few jobs directly and have only weak links to local markets. Far from bringing benefits, the exploitation of natural resources has been frequently linked to human rights abuse and encroachment on lands and livelihoods of communities, mass evictions, pollution and environmental degradation, which may result in violations of rights to health, food, housing and water. The right of people to participate in decisions regarding natural resources is often violated, especially where the land, territory and resources of indigenous peoples is concerned. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2014 | ||
The right to an adequate diet: the agriculture-food-health nexus 2012, para. 50a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [States, in accordance with their obligation to respect, protect and fulfil the right to adequate food for all, should:] Adopt a national strategy for the realization of the right to adequate food which integrates the objective of guaranteeing the right to adequate diets for all and sets specific targets and time frames for action; | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2012 | ||
Impact of climate change on the right to food 2015, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | In its general comment No. 12 (1999), the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights defined the necessary elements required for the right to food (i.e. the possibility either to feed oneself directly from productive land or other natural resources or to purchase food) as availability, accessibility and adequacy. | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2015 | ||
Labour exploitation of migrants 2014, para. 24 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Articles 6 to 10 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recognize the rights of everyone to (a) work which they freely choose or accept; (b) enjoy just and favourable conditions of work, including equal remuneration for work of equal value; (c) form and join trade unions; (d) social security, including social insurance; (e) the special protection from economic and social exploitation of children and young persons. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2014 | ||
Report of the SR on the right to health and Agenda 2030 2016, para. (a) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | For those living in poverty or without sufficient means, States should ensure health coverage or access to care to prevent discrimination (targets 1.3 and 3.8); | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2016 | ||
Servile marriage 2012, para. 32 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | On 22 February 2008, in Prosecutor v. Brima et al, the Special Court for Sierra Leone recognized forced marriage as a crime against humanity under international criminal law for the first time. The Court confirmed that forced marriage involved a perpetrator compelling a person by force or threat of force, through words, or conduct of the perpetrator, or anyone associated with him, into a forced conjugal association resulting in great suffering or serious physical or mental injury on the part of the victim. It concluded that forced marriage might also include one or more international crimes such as enslavement, imprisonment, rape, sexual slavery and abduction. | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2012 | ||
Solitary confinement 2011, para. 87 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Indefinite solitary confinement should be abolished. | Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2011 | ||
Sustainability and non-retrogression in the realisation of the rights to water and sanitation 2013, para. 17 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | There is a clear link between non-retrogression and sustainability. Acts or omissions that result in retrogressions in the progressive realization of the rights to water and sanitation jeopardize sustainability. Unless the criteria outlined above have been satisfied during the States' decision-making processes, it is unlikely that such processes will result in the sustainable provision of water and sanitation. Rather, retrogressive steps will perpetuate unsustainable practices and create a constant threat to the full realization of economic, social and cultural rights in general and the rights to water and sanitation in particular. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2013 | ||
Sustainability and non-retrogression in the realisation of the rights to water and sanitation 2013, para. 23 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | To enable the sustainable provision of services, a number of factors within and beyond the water and sanitation sector must be reinforced, in particular, accountable governance. Water and sanitation services must be embedded in a sound legislative policy and regulatory framework. Institutions involved in the water and sanitation sectors must be responsive and accountable for their actions, and decisions must be participatory and transparent. All groups and individuals concerned and all relevant stakeholders must be provided with genuine opportunities to meaningfully participate and must be empowered in these processes. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2013 | ||
Affordability of water and sanitation services 2015, para. 28 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | It is impossible to set a generally applicable affordability standard at the global level. Any such standard would be arbitrary and cannot reflect the challenges people face in practice and the context in which they live, including how much they need to spend on housing, food and the realization of other human rights. The affordability of water and sanitation services is highly contextual, and States should therefore determine affordability standards at the national and/or local level. The human rights framework stipulates important parameters for the process of doing so, in particular in terms of participation. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2015 | ||
Gender equality in the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation 2016, para. 74 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | A recent study underscored that gender-differentiated patterns are not the same everywhere and reinforced the importance of context for understanding the gender dimensions of access and experience. The quantity and quality of sex-disaggregated data at the micro level are considered to be better than those of data at the global level. It is therefore important that measuring progress in the rights to water and sanitation and gender equality is not based on global monitoring and on the use of quantitative data only. Context-specific studies and monitoring that capture the intersection of gender inequalities in the enjoyment of other human rights are key to understanding and developing improved policy responses. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2016 | ||
Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 2017, para. 25 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Remaining deeply concerned that, according to the most recent estimates of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Food Programme, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund, the number of chronically undernourished people in the world has increased to 815 million, from 777 million in 2015, and that global nutrition challenges are increasingly complex as multiple forms of malnutrition, including stunting, wasting, underweight, micronutrient deficiencies, overweight and obesity, may coexist within the same country or household, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
|
| 2017 | ||
Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 1994, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | All States and all people shall cooperate in the essential task of eradicating poverty as an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, in order to decrease the disparities in standards of living and better meet the needs of the majority of the people of the world. The special situation and needs of developing countries, particularly the least developed, shall be given special priority. Countries with economies in transition, as well as all other countries, need to be fully integrated into the world economy. | International Conference on Population and Development | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
|
| 1994 | ||
Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 1994, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Sustainable development as a means to ensure human well-being, equitably shared by all people today and in the future, requires that the interrelationships between population, resources, the environment and development should be fully recognized, properly managed and brought into harmonious, dynamic balance. To achieve sustainable development and a higher quality of life for all people, States should reduce and eliminate unsustainable patterns of production and consumption and promote appropriate policies, including population-related policies, in order to meet the needs of current generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. | International Conference on Population and Development | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
|
| 1994 | ||
Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 1994, para. 15 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Sustained economic growth, in the context of sustainable development, and social progress require that growth be broadly based, offering equal opportunities to all people. All countries should recognize their common but differentiated responsibilities. The developed countries acknowledge the responsibility that they bear in the international pursuit of sustainable development, and should continue to improve their efforts to promote sustained economic growth and to narrow imbalances in a manner that can benefit all countries, particularly the developing countries. | International Conference on Population and Development | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
|
| 1994 |