Effects
Stress on health status
Sea-level rise and flooding
Human rights standards and climate change
Right to the highest attainable standard
of health:
CESCR, general comment No. 14 (2000) on the right to the highest attainable
standard of health (art. 12).
ICESCR arts. 7 (b), 10 and 12;
CEDAW arts. 12 and 14,
para. 2 (b); Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, art. 25; ICERD
art. 5 (e) (iv); CRC art. 24;
CRPD arts. 16, para. 4, 22, para. 2,
and 25; ICRMW arts. 43, para. 1 (e),
45, para. 1 (c) and 70.
Committee on the Rights of the Child, general comment No. 4 (2003) on adolescent
health and development in the context of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Right to adequate housing:
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ICESCR art. 11; ICERD art. 5 (e) (iii);
CEDAW art. 14, para. 2; CRC art. 27,
para. 3; ICRMW art. 43, para. 1 (d);
CRPD arts. 9, para. 1 (a), 28, paras. 1
and 2 (d); Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, art. 25.
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, general
recommendation No. 24 (1999) on article 12 of the Convention (women and health).
Human Rights Committee, general comment No. 6.
CESCR, general comment No. 4 (1991) on the right to adequate housing (art. 11,
para. 1, of the Covenant).
CESCR, general comment No. 7 (1997) on the right to adequate housing (art. 11,
para. 1, of the Covenant): Forced evictions.
OHCHR, OCHA, UN-HABITAT, UNHCR, FAO, NRC, Handbook on Housing and
Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons - Implementing the
“Pinheiro Principles”.
A/HRC/10/61
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