UN OHCHR
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Declaration
20 Feb 2023
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is an international human rights treaty of the United Nations intended to protect the rights and di...
1471 Resources
Short
WHO
Voice, agency, empowerment - handbook on social participation for universal health coverage
Guide
20 Feb 2023
Social participation is an important means for governments to develop responsive health policies and programmes, which are more likely to be implemented by a...
WHO
Promoting rights-based policy & law for mental health
Strategy document
20 Feb 2023
WHO works with countries to develop and implement progressive mental health and related policies and laws in line with international best practice and human ...
NCD Alliance
Our views, our voices
Strategy document
20 Feb 2023
The Our Views, Our Voices initiative promotes the meaningful involvement of people living with noncommunicable diseases in the NCD response by supp...
WHO
Declaration of the Alma-Ata International Conference on Primary Health Care
Declaration
20 Feb 2023
The Declaration of Alma-Ata was endorsed at the Alma-Ata conference, jointly convened by WHO and UNICEF, that focused world attention on primary health care ...
UN. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
General comment no. 14 (2000), The right to the highest attainable standard of health (article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights)
Publication
20 Feb 2023
The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights provides the most comprehensive article on the right to health in international ...
WHO
Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health - Final report of the commission on social determinants of health
Report
20 Feb 2023
Social justice is a matter of life and death. It affects the way people live, their consequent chance of illness, and their risk of premature death. We watch...
UN OHCHR
Report by the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. Racism and the right to health
Report
20 Feb 2023
In her second report to the General Assembly, the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical...
WHO
Frontier dialogue consultations on addressing structural racial and ethnicity-based discrimination – Key action areas for COVID-19 recovery plans
Report
20 Feb 2023
The objective of this report is to provide United Nations country and humanitarian teams with a package of interventions, for adaptation to specifi...
World Health Organization
Global report on health equity for persons with disabilities
Report
17 Feb 2023
An estimated 1.3 billion people – or 16% of global population worldwide – experience a significant disability today. Persons with disabilities have the r...
World Health Organization
Global Group of Heads of State and Government for the Prevention and Control of NCDs
Briefs & Fact Sheets
16 Feb 2023
The Global Group of Heads of State and Government for the Prevention and Control of NCDs (The NCD Presidential Group) is an informal, voluntary, collaborativ...
World Health Organization
Implementation roadmap 2023–2030 for the Global action plan for the prevention and control of NCDs 2013–2030
Strategy document
16 Feb 2023
The roadmap is to be developed in response to the Global action plan for the prevent...