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5.
Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights to provide all the necessary human, technical and financial assistance to the
Special Rapporteur for the effective fulfilment of his/her mandate;
6.
Decides to continue consideration of this question in conformity with the annual
programme of work of the Human Rights Council.
33rd meeting
14 December 2007
[Adopted without a vote. See chap. III.]
6/29. Right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable
standard of physical and mental health
The Human Rights Council,
Aware that, for millions of people throughout the world, the full enjoyment of the right to
the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health still remains a distant goal and that,
in many cases, especially for those living in poverty, this goal remains remote,
Reaffirming that the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard
of physical and mental health is a human right as reflected, inter alia, in article 25, paragraph 1,
of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 12 of the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of the
Child, as well as, with respect to non-discrimination, in article 5 (e) (iv) of the International
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and in article 12,
paragraph 1, of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women, and that such a right derives from the inherent dignity of the human person,
Taking note with interest of general comment No. 14 (2000) on the right to the highest
attainable standard of health (article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights), adopted by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at its
twenty-second session in May 2000; of general comment No. 3 (2003) on HIV/AIDS and the
rights of the child, adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child at its thirty-second
session; and of general recommendation No. 24 (1999) on women and health (article 12 of the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women), adopted by the
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women at its twentieth session,
Recalling all resolutions on the realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the
highest attainable standard of physical and mental health adopted by the General Assembly and
the Commission on Human Rights,
Recalling also the declarations and programmes of action adopted by the major
United Nations conferences and summits and their follow-up meetings,
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