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8.
Invites Member States to foster public health systems that ensure the
realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of
physical and mental health, including of those in vulnerable situations;
9.
Encourages United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, in particular
the World Health Organization as the lead United Nations agency on health, in accordance
with their respective mandates and as appropriate, to continue to address public health
concerns in their activities and programmes, and to actively support capacity-building in
global public health, such as through the provision of technical and other relevant
assistance to developing countries, including the least developed countries, small island
developing States and landlocked developing countries;
10.
Encourages the mechanisms of the Human Rights Council, especially the
Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable
standard of physical and mental health and the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights, within their existing mandates, to continue to address
public health concerns in their activities and programmes, and where feasible to support
capacity-building in global public health, such as through the provision of technical and
other relevant assistance to developing countries;
11.
Decides to convene, at its thirty-fifth session, a panel discussion with the
participation of States, relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, academics
and experts and non-governmental organizations, with the objective of exchanging
experiences and practices on realizing the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest
attainable standard of physical and mental health by enhancing capacity-building in public
health, and that the discussion shall be fully accessible to persons with disabilities, and
requests the High Commissioner to prepare a summary report on the panel discussion and
to submit it to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-sixth session.
43rd meeting
1 July 2016
[Adopted without a vote.]
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