A/HRC/RES/43/13 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 1 July 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-third session 24 February–13 March and 15–23 June 2020 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 19 June 2020 43/13. Mental health and human rights The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Guided also by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and by all relevant international human rights treaties, in particular, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Reaffirming Human Rights Council resolutions 32/18 of 1 July 2016 and 36/13 of 28 September 2017 on mental health and human rights, and Council resolutions on the rights of persons with disabilities, Welcoming the Sustainable Development Goals, including Goal 3, on ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages, and its specific and interlinked targets, Acknowledging that the promotion and protection of human rights and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development are interrelated and mutually reinforcing, Welcoming the consultation on human rights and mental health,1 organized by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on 14 and 15 May 2018 pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 36/13, which, inter alia, identified strategies to promote human rights in mental health, Welcoming also the political declaration of the third high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases,2 1 2 See A/HRC/39/36. General Assembly resolution 73/2. GE.20-08717(E) 