Page 34 - Human Rights

Faculty of Nursing
Adult care Nursing Department

Some of those conventions relating to health and human rights and embodied in international

law.

International standards

A number of international and regional treaties include provisions which bear on rights to health
and related human rights.

The standards cited below are quoted in more detail in the Appendix:

Universal Declaration of Human Rights “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for
… health and well-being” (Article 25).

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights “The States Parties to the present

Covenant recognize the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of

physical and mental health” (Article 12).

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women “States Parties shall
take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women…in particular to

ensure…access to specific educational information to help to ensure the health and well-being of

families, including information and advice on family planning” (Article 10).

Convention on the Rights of the Child “States Parties recognize the right of the child to the
enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and to facilities for the treatment of illness

and rehabilitation of health.

States Parties shall strive to ensure that no child is deprived of his or her right of access to such

health care services” (Article 24).

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination “States Parties undertake to

prohibit and to eliminate racial discrimination in all its forms and to guarantee the right of

everyone, without distinction as to race, color, or national or ethnic origin, to equality before the

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