A/RES/70/183
United Nations
Distr.: General
18 February 2016
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 125
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2015
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/70/L.32 and Add.1)]
70/183. Global health and foreign policy: strengthening the
management of international health crises
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 63/33 of 26 November 2008, 64/108 of 10 December
2009, 65/95 of 9 December 2010, 66/115 of 12 December 2011, 67/81 of
12 December 2012, 68/98 of 11 December 2013 and 69/132 of 11 December 2014,
Recalling also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 international
humanitarian law, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights 2 and the Constitution of the World Health Organization, 3
Taking note of the President’s statement adopted by the Human Rights Council
at its thirtieth session on promoting the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the
highest attainable standard of physical and mental health by enhancing capacitybuilding in public health against pandemics, 4
Recognizing that health is a precondition for and an outcome and indicator of
all three dimensions of sustainable development and that, despite progress made,
challenges in global health, including major inequities and vulnerabi lities within and
among countries, regions and populations, still remain and demand persistent
attention,
Reaffirming the right of every human being, without distinction of any kind, to
the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and ment al health and
to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of oneself and one’s
family, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous
improvement of living conditions, with particular attention to the alarming situa tion
of millions of people for whom access to medicines remains a distant goal, in
particular vulnerable populations and destitute people,
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 14, No. 221.
4
Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/70/53/Add.1),
chap. V, PRST/30/2.
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