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Rights of the child (2006), para. 027
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- (b) Taking all necessary measures to ensure the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and developing sustainable health systems and social services, ensuring access to such systems and services without discrimination, paying particular attention to adequate food and nutrition and assigning priority to activities and programmes aimed at preventing addictions, in particular addiction to alcohol and tobacco, and the abuse of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and inhalants and by, inter alia, securing appropriate prenatal and post-natal care for mothers;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2017), para. 17
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- Recognizing, with interest, the Secretary-General’s revised Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016–2030), undertaken by a broad coalition of partners, in support of national plans and strategies that aim for the highest attainable standards of health and well-being, physical, mental and social, at every age, ending maternal and newborn mortality, which is preventable, and noting that this can contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Infants
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2017), para. 27
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- Recognizing that universal health coverage implies that all people have access without discrimination to nationally determined sets of the needed promotive, preventive, curative, palliative and rehabilitative essential health-care services, including sexual and reproductive health-care services, and essential, safe, affordable, efficacious and quality medicines, vaccines, diagnostics and medical devices, while ensuring that the use of these services does not expose the users to financial hardship, with a special emphasis on the poor, vulnerable and marginalized segments of the population,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2008), para. 055
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- (f) To design and implement programmes to provide social services and support to pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, in particular by enabling them and also the adolescent fathers to continue and complete their education;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Infants
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Political declaration of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the fight against tuberculosis (2018), para. 43
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- 38. Commit to providing special attention to the poor, those who are vulnerable, including infants, young children and adolescents, as well as elderly people and communities especially at risk of and affected by tuberculosis, in accordance with the principle of social inclusion, especially through ensuring strong and meaningful engagement of civil society and affected communities in the planni ng, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the tuberculosis response, within and beyond the health sector; we further acknowledge the link between incarceration and tuberculosis and therefore reaffirm the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) as defined in General Assembly resolution 70/175 of 17 December 2015;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Infants
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2020), para. 56
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- (kk) Guaranteeing the universal registration of births, including in rural areas, and ensuring the timely registration of all marriages for individuals living in rural areas, including by removing physical, administrative, procedural and any other barriers that impede access to registration and by providing, where lacking, mechanisms for the registration of customary and religious marriages, bearing in mind the vital importance of birth registration for the realization of the rights of individuals ;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2006), para. 029
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- (d) Designing and implementing programmes to provide social services and support to pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, in particular by enabling them to continue and complete their education;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Infants
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Global health and foreign policy: health employment and economic growth (2017), para. 52
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- 9. Urges Member States, in accordance with their obligations under relevant provisions of international human rights law, including the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, to promote equal access to health services and the development and attainment by Member States of resilient and sustainable health systems capable of responding effectively to outbreaks and emergencies and of implementing an effective response to the broader dimensions of outbreaks and emergencies that include access to b asic health-care services, including maternal, newborn and child health and sexual and reproductive health, as well as food security and nutrition, housing and education;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Effective promotion of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (2020), para. 29
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- (e) Ensuring that birth registration, civil registration and national identification documents are provided without discrimination on any ground, in particular race, ethnicity, religion and language, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 5 especially the target aimed at providing a legal identity for all;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2020), para. 026
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- Reaffirming also the efforts of Governments to achieve all health-related Sustainable Development Goal targets, in particular Goal 3 of ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all throughout the life course, by integrating those aims into their national plans and policies, as well as the significant progress made in increasing life expectancy, reducing maternal, newborn and child mortality and combating communicable diseases,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2015), para. 36
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- (d) To ensure equitable access through national policies, plans and programmes that make maternal and newborn health-care services, particularly family planning, skilled attendance at birth, emergency obstetric and newborn care and obstetric fistula treatment, financially accessible, including in rural and remote areas and among the poorest women and girls, through, where appropriate, the establishment and distribution of health-care facilities and trained medical personnel, collaboration with the transport sector for affordable transport options, the promotion of and support for community-based solutions and the provision of incentives and other means to secure the presence in rural and remote areas of qualified health-care professionals who are able to perform interventions to prevent obstetric fistula;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Infants
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2011), para. 27
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- (a) To redouble their efforts to meet the internationally agreed goal of improving maternal health by making maternal health services and obstetric fistula treatment geographically and financially accessible, including by increasing access to skilled attendance at birth, emergency obstetric care and appropriate prenatal and post-natal care;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law (2013), para. 18
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- 7. Urges States to identify and remove physical, administrative, procedural and any other barriers that impede access to birth registration, including late registration, paying due attention to, among others, those barriers relating to poverty, disability, gender, nationality, displacement, illiteracy and detention contexts, and to persons in vulnerable situations;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Persons on the move
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Keeping the promise: united to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (2010), para. 173
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- (b) Addressing reproductive, maternal and child health, including newborn health, in a comprehensive manner, inter alia, through the provision of family planning, prenatal care, skilled attendance at birth, emergency obstetric and newborn care and methods for the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and infections, such as HIV, within strengthened health systems that provide accessible and affordable integrated health-care services and include community-based preventive and clinical care;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The rule of law at the national and international levels (2015), para. 33
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- 18. Recalls the commitment of Member States to take all necessary steps to provide fair, transparent, effective, non-discriminatory and accountable services that promote access to justice for all, including legal aid, encourages further dialogue and the sharing of national practices in strengthening the rule of law through access to justice, including with regard to birth registration and legal aid, where appropriate, in both criminal and civil proceedings, and in this regard stresses the need to intensify the assistance extended to Governments upon their request;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Access to medication in the context of pandemics such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria (2004), para. 42
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- 13. Calls upon States to ensure that those at risk of contracting malaria, in particular pregnant women and children under five years of age, benefit from the most suitable combination of personal and community protective measures, such as insecticide treated bed nets and other interventions that are accessible and affordable, in order to prevent infection and suffering;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2019), para. 25
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- 4. Also calls upon States to ensure equitable coverage and timely access, by means of national plans, policies and programmes, to health-care services, in particular emergency obstetric and newborn care, skilled birth attendance, obstetric fistula treatment and family planning, that are financially affordable, accessible and culturally sensitive, especially in rural and the most-remote areas;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health in the context of development and access to medicines (2011), para. 07
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- Concerned that, for millions of people throughout the world, the full realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including through access to medicines that are affordable, safe, effective and of good quality, in particular essential medicines, vaccines and other medical products, and to health-care facilities and services, still remains a distant goal and that, in many cases, especially for those living in poverty, this goal remains remote,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality (2014), para. 32
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- 10. Urges all States to prevent statelessness through legislative and other measures aimed at ensuring that all children are registered immediately after birth and have the right to acquire a nationality and that individuals do not become stateless thereafter;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules) (2011), para. 007
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- Mindful also of its resolution 63/241 of 24 December 2008, in which it called upon all States to give attention to the impact of parental detention and imprisonment on children and, in particular, to identify and promote good practices in relation to the needs and physical, emotional, social and psychological development of babies and children affected by parental detention and imprisonment,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Cambodia (2002), para. 35
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- 3. Urges the Government of Cambodia to improve further the health conditions of children and their access to education, to provide and promote free and accessible birth registration and to establish an effective juvenile justice system that is consistent with international human rights standards, and invites the international community to continue to assist the Government to this end;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2007), para. 029
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- (c) Taking all necessary measures to ensure the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and developing sustainable health systems and social services, ensuring access to such systems and services without discrimination, paying special attention to adequate food and nutrition, to the special needs of adolescents and to reproductive and sexual health, and securing appropriate prenatal and post-natal care for mothers, including measures to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Infants
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Universal Health Coverage Day (2018), para. 3
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- Recalling also its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative Sustainable Development Goals and its aspirational and global targets, which include achieving the target of universal health coverage by 2030, includ ing financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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New Urban Agenda (2017), para. 081
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- 55. We commit ourselves to fostering healthy societies by promoting access to adequate, inclusive and quality public services, a clean environment, taking into consideration air quality guidelines, including those elaborated by the World Health Organization, and social infrastructure and facilities, such as health-care services, including universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services to reduce newborn child and maternal mortality.
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2016), para. 018
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- Deeply concerned also that approximately 6 million children under the age of 5 die each year, mostly from preventable and treatable causes, owing to inadequate or lack of access to integrated and quality maternal, newborn and child health care and services, to early childbearing, as well as lack of access to health determinants, such as safe drinking water and sanitation, safe and adequate food and nutrition, including breastfeeding, and that mortality remains highest among children belonging to the poorest and most marginalized communities,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2017), para. 19
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- Welcoming also ongoing partnerships between stakeholders at all levels to address the multifaceted determinants of maternal, newborn and child health, in close coordination with Member States, based on their needs and priorities, and in this regard welcoming further the commitments to accelerate progress on the health - related Sustainable Development Goals by 2030,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Addressing the socioeconomic needs of individuals, families and societies affected by autism spectrum disorders, developmental disorders and associated disabilities (2013), para. 25
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- (c) Enhancing inclusive educational programmes suited to infants, children (d) Emphasizing the unique needs of each person with autism across a spectrum of different characteristics and experiences;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law (2013), para. 16
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- 5. Further calls upon States to ensure free birth registration, including free or low-fee late birth registration, by means of universal, accessible, simple, expeditious and effective registration procedures, without discrimination of any kind;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child: a holistic approach to the protection and promotion of the rights of children working and/or living on the street (2011), para. 26
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- (a) Ensuring birth registration of all children immediately after birth through universal, free, accessible, simple, expeditious and effective registration procedures; raising awareness of the importance of birth registration at the national, regional and local levels; facilitating late registration of birth; and ensuring that children who have not been registered have access without discrimination to health care, protection, education, safe drinking water and sanitation, and basic services;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2017), para. 18
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- Welcoming the various national, regional and international initiatives on all the Sustainable Development Goals, including those undertaken bilaterally and through South-South cooperation, in support of national plans and strategies in sectors such as health, education, finance, gender equality, energy, water and sanitation, poverty eradication and nutrition as a way to reduce the number of maternal, newborn and under-five child deaths,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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