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stakeholders on the target sectors, focus areas or thematic human rights issues for the fourth
phase of the World Programme, bearing in mind possible synergies with the 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development and other relevant initiatives on human rights education and
training, and to submit a report thereon to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-ninth
session.
39th meeting
28 September 2017
[Adopted without a vote.]
36/13.
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 resolution 32/18 of 1 July 2016 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, its specific and interlinked targets
and its close interlinkages with Goal 1, on eradicating poverty, and Goal 10, on reducing
inequalities,
Underscoring that the full realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms for
all contributes to the efforts to implement the Sustainable Development Goals, while
recognizing that, inter alia, discrimination, stigma, corruption, violence and abuse are major
obstacles in this regard,
Underscoring also that the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals
contributes to the full realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all,
Reaffirming that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interrelated,
interdependent and mutually reinforcing,
Reaffirming also that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights,
and recognizing that these rights derive from the inherent dignity of the human person,
Reaffirming further that everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person,
the equal right to live independently and be included in the community and the right to
equal recognition before the law, and that no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,
Recalling the general principles reflected in the Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities, namely respect for inherent dignity, individual autonomy and
independence, and full and effective participation and inclusion in society,
Reaffirming the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard
of physical and mental health, and emphasizing that mental health is an integral part of that
right,
Taking note of the work of the treaty bodies in relation to issues of mental health and
human rights, including in the context of their general comments, in particular Committee
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities general comment No. 5 (2017) on living
independently and being included in the community,
Reaffirming the right of everyone to be guaranteed the full enjoyment of their human
rights and fundamental freedoms, without discrimination of any kind,
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