A/HRC/4/28 page 25 26 4 February 2005, E/CN.4/2005/51/Add.3; Press Release: US-Peru Free Trade, 13 July 2005 and 5 July 2004, available at www.unhchr.ch. 27 10 February 2005, E/CN.4/2005/51. 28 13 February 2003, E/CN.4/2003/58, para 8. 29 3 March 2006, E/CN.4/2006/48. 30 Gillian MacNaughton and Paul Hunt, Impact Assessments, Poverty and Human Rights: A Case Study Using the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health, 2006, available at http://www2.essex.ac.uk/human_rights_centre/rth/. 31 13 September 2006, A/61/338. 32 Amnesty International, Facts and Figures on the Death Penalty. http://web.amnesty.org/pages/deathpenalty-facts-eng. 33 27 December 2005, E/CN.4/2006/56, para. 9. 34 Such as the Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons (1994). 35 Launched in December 2005, the Leaders’ Call to Action can be accessed at http://www.realizingrights.org. 36 At least in the short term. 37 As the International Labour Organization has chosen to do. 38 12 September 2005, A/60/348. 39 2005 World Summit Outcome, A/RES/60/1, para. 126. 40 See 12 September 2005, A/60/348. 41 Some of the cases raise issues that go beyond health. This chapter, however, is confined to the health dimensions of the cases. 42 Some cases could properly be located in more than one group. For example, Samity is not only an example of a case that gives rise to immediate obligations, it also illustrates how States have a duty to make health services available. 43 See, for example, article 2 (1) ICESCR and article 27 (2) Constitution of South Africa. 44 Constitution of South Africa, 1996, art. 27.

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