United Nations
General Assembly
A/HRC/RES/33/11
Distr.: General
6 October 2016
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-third session
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 29 September 2016
33/11.
Preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5
years of age as a human rights concern
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling its resolutions 24/11 of 26 September 2013 and 27/14 of 2 October 2014
on preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age as a human rights
concern, and all other relevant resolutions on the rights of the child of the Commission on
Human Rights, the Council and the General Assembly,
Reaffirming that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and
interrelated, and recognizing the need to ensure the full and effective enjoyment by all of
their human rights, including the right to development,
Deeply concerned that more than 5,900,000 children under 5 years of age die each
year, mostly from preventable and treatable causes, owing to inadequate or lack of access to
integrated and quality maternal, newborn and child health care and services, early
childbearing, and to health determinants, such as safe drinking water and sanitation, safe
and adequate food and nutrition, and that mortality remains highest among children
belonging to the poorest and most marginalized communities,
Deeply concerned also that, despite progress made in the reduction of child
mortality, Millennium Development Goal 4, on reducing child mortality by two thirds from
1990 to 2015, was not achieved, and that deaths of newborn babies are falling more slowly,
with a projected increase, if current trends continue, in the share of neonatal deaths by
2030,
Welcoming the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 1 and
recognizing that reducing preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of
age will require efforts across the 2030 Agenda, including target 3.2, on ending preventable
deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age,
1
General Assembly resolution 70/1.
GE.16-17295(E)