Preventable Mortality and Morbidity of Children Under 5 Years of Age as a Human Rights Concern

A/HRC/RES/33/11View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2016.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 2013–2016

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2016	A/HRC/RES/33/11	Preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age as a human rights concern	1,292	43%Compare
2014	A/HRC/RES/27/14	Preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age as a human rights concern	1,218	46%Compare
2013	A/HRC/RES/24/11	Preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age as a human rights concern	1,109	–

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11 subjects

Child Health Child Mortality Conferences Guidelines Health Policy Human Rights Policy Infants Information Dissemination Maternal and Child Health Morbidity Technical Cooperation

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13 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the implementation of the technical guidance on the application of a human rights-based approach to policies and programmes to reduce and eliminate preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age;³

³A/HRC/33/23.

Urges States to disseminate the technical guidance and to apply it, as appropriate, in the design, implementation, evaluation and monitoring of laws, policies, programmes, budgets and mechanisms for remedy and redress aimed at eliminating preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age;

Calls upon States to adopt a human rights-based approach to reducing and eliminating preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age, including in scaling up efforts to achieve the integrated management of quality maternal, newborn and child health care and services, particularly at the community and family levels, and to take action to address the main causes of preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age;

Calls upon States and other relevant stakeholders, including national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations, with due regard to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, to continue to take and intensify action at all levels to address the interlinked root causes of preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age, such as poverty, malnutrition, harmful practices, violence, stigma and discrimination, unsafe households and environments, lack of safe drinking water and sanitation, lack of accessible, affordable, quality and appropriate health care, services, medicines and vaccinations, late detection of childhood illnesses and low levels and quality of education;

Calls upon States to strengthen further their international commitment, cooperation and mutual assistance with the objective of reducing and eliminating preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age, including through the sharing of good practices, research, policies, review of progress through data collection and analysis, and capacity-building;

Encourages States and all relevant stakeholders to ensure that the issue of preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age is given due attention in the work of the Human Rights Council, including relevant Council processes, debates and mechanisms, including the universal periodic review;

Calls upon all relevant United Nations agencies to continue to provide technical cooperation and assistance to States, as requested, to reduce and eliminate preventable morbidity and mortality of children under 5 years of age, by supporting the application of the technical guidance, including through the development and dissemination of tools for its operationalization at all relevant stages of national planning and action cycles for child health and survival;

Encourages the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in close collaboration with the World Health Organization, to intensify efforts to bring the technical guidance to the attention of the Secretary-General and all United Nations entities with mandates relevant to preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age, including the High-level Working Group on the Health and Human Rights of Women, Children and Adolescents, and to continue dialogue on the issue of preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age with all relevant actors with due regard to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda;

Requests the High Commissioner:

To organize, prior to the thirty-ninth session of the Human Rights Council, in close collaboration with the World Health Organization, an expert workshop to discuss experiences in preventing mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age, with a particular focus on the implementation of the technical guidance, including challenges, best practices and lessons learned, and including consideration of the particular challenges in respect of the newborn child;

To consult with and invite States, relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, including the United Nations Children’s Fund and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, and relevant special procedure mandate holders, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, other human rights mechanisms, including regional organizations, professional medical organizations, health policymakers or practitioners and civil society to participate actively in the workshop;

To prepare a summary report on the above-mentioned workshop, including any good practices identified thereat and recommendations arising therefrom, for submission to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-ninth session;

Decides to remain seized of the matter.

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