UNITED
NATIONS
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General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/HRC/RES/12/24
12 October 2009
Original: ENGLISH
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Twelfth session
Agenda item 3
PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIL,
POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS,
INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council *
12/24. Access to medicine in the context of the right of everyone to the
enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and
mental health
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and recalling the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,
Recalling Commission on Human Rights resolutions 2001/33 of 23 April 2001, 2002/31
and 2002/32 of 22 April 2002, 2003/28 of 22 April 2003, 2004/27 of 16 April 2004 and 2005/24
of 15 April 2005, and that the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable
standard of physical and mental health is a human right that derives from the inherent dignity of
the human person,
Emphasizing the development goals of the United Nations Millennium Declaration, in
particular the four health-related development goals,
*
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council
on its twelfth session (A/HRC/12/50), chap. I.
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