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Human beings have the right to the highest attainable standards of health - and health is closely associated with human security, productivity, national development and international solidarity.
"All women and newborns, regardless of their socio-economic status, culture, race or other orientation and origin, have the right to the highest attainable standards of health," said UNICEF Montenegro Representative Benjamin Perks at a press conference in Podgorica on Wednesday.
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Immunization is a key ingredient in helping children attain the highest attainable standard of health.
The United States was again the sole dissenter in separate votes of 52 to 1 on resolutions on the right to food and the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.
The statement is signed by El Hadji Malick Sow, chair of the UN working group on arbitrary detention; Juan E Méndez, UN special rapporteur on torture; Ben Emmerson QC, UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights; and Anand Grover, UN special rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.
The other pact signed Thursday, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, requires countries to ensure the right to work, fair wages, freedom to form and join trade unions, social security, education and the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.
For example, General Comment 14 of Article 12 of the UN Economic and Social Council details the right to the highest attainable standard of health, access to clean water has been deemed a human right by WHO and a UK MP recently published a report outlining human rights in healthcare in the UK.
"the right to the highest attainable standard of health should be the cornerstone of any consideration of health and human rights" (Hunt and Backman 2008).
This right was further clarified in article 12 or the ICESCR which recognises "the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health".
Similarly the right to health is also not interpreted as freedom from disease, but as the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health (cf. UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights [2000]).
In relation to the rights to food, water, and highest attainable standard of health, which have been given more content through CESCR's General Comments 12, 15 and 14, respectively, the minimum core would arguably provide more protection of subsistence rights than the norms under humanitarian law, despite their progressive nature.
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