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: ----- 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 page 32 Examples of rights affected

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