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application of the technical guidance in law and policy development, and in delivery of
high-quality care for children under 5, as well as providing operational guidance to various
stakeholders, from health policymakers to health practitioners, on the value and application
of human rights. Given that OHCHR resources for child rights are severely constrained,
that can only be undertaken with full support from Member States.
84.
Bearing in mind that around 40 per cent of the deaths of under-5 children concern
the newborn child, further attention must be given to that stage of childhood. An expert
dialogue on how human rights instruments, particularly the Convention on the Rights of the
Child, apply to the newborn child could provide high-level visibility and contribute to
accelerating and deepening political will to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals,
with a particular focus on target 3.2 aimed at reducing neonatal mortality to at least as low
as 12 per 1,000 live births. That could feed into the work of the Independent Panel on
Accountability and the follow-up and review of the Sustainable Development Goals under
the high-level political forum on sustainable development. Such expert discussion could
build on the work already initiated by a group of obstetricians, neonatologists and
paediatricians (see para. 62 above) and include human rights mechanisms such as the
Special Rapporteur on the right to health, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Special Representative of the
Secretary-General on Violence against Children. The results of the expert discussion could
be presented to the Human Rights Council as part of the follow-up process on
implementation of the technical guidance.
85.
Investing in child survival continues to be the most important step in ensuring a
future for all children, independent of the country they are born in. All efforts must be made
by States, the international community and other stakeholders to uphold the right of the
child to survive. Member States should report on the implementation of the technical
guidance through existing international human rights mechanisms, as well as in the context
of the monitoring and accountability framework of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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