A/HRC/50/28
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 April 2022
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fiftieth session
13 June–8 July 2022
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Violence and its impact on the right to health
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the
enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental
health, Tlaleng Mofokeng
Summary
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment
of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Tlaleng Mofokeng, sheds
light on who is seen as a victim of violence, with emphasis on the violence experienced by
women, children and non-binary people and on conflict-related sexual violence and structural
violence. She adopts a substantive equality approach and analyses violence and its impact on
the right of everyone to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health within
intersectional, anti-racism and anti-coloniality frameworks.
In seeking to end and respond to violence she proposes an intersectional, nondiscriminatory and gender (non-binary) approach that understands gender-based violence as
a phenomenon that includes matters of sexuality, and violations against persons on the basis
of their real or imputed sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics. She
underscores that a non-binary approach to gender and gender-based violence is well-rooted
in international human rights law.
The Special Rapporteur also clarifies the legal obligations that arise under the right to
health framework in addressing violence and reports on examples of responses, with a focus
on good practices.
GE.22-05637(E)