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to achieve integrated management of maternal, newborn and child health care and to take
action to address the main causes of maternal and child mortality;
Malnutrition
11.
Calls upon all States and, if appropriate, relevant international organizations,
to combat all forms of malnutrition and to support the national plans and programmes of
countries to improve nutrition in poor households, in particular plans and programmes that
are aimed at combating undernutrition in mothers and children, and those targeting the
irreversible effects of chronic undernutrition in early childhood, up to the age of 2 years,
and to reaffirm the rights of everyone to have access to safe and nutritious food, consistent
with the right to adequate food and the fundamental right of everyone to be free from
hunger so as to be able to fully develop and maintain their physical and mental capacities;
12.
Recognizes the importance of the implementation of the human right to safe
drinking water and sanitation for the full realization of the right of the child to the
enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, and therefore
urges States, and through them services providers, to ensure a regular supply of safe,
acceptable, accessible and affordable drinking water and sanitation services of good quality
and sufficient quantity, guided also by the principles of equity, equality and nondiscrimination, bearing in mind that the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation
for their populations is to be progressively realized with full respect for national
sovereignty;
13.
Welcomes the comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and
young child nutrition of the World Health Organization, adopted on 26 May 2012 at the
sixty-fifth World Health Assembly, with its targets and time frame, and urges States and,
where appropriate, international organizations and partners and the private sector to
establish adequate mechanisms to safeguard against potential conflicts of interest and to put
the comprehensive implementation plan into practice;
Mental health
14.
Urges States to develop and strengthen, according to national priorities and
within their specific contexts, comprehensive policies and strategies that address the
promotion of mental health during all stages of childhood and adolescence, including
infancy and early childhood, and paying particular attention to children in high-risk
situations, through actions to enhance protective factors and to address risk factors,
including violence at the community, family and individual levels, as well as through the
prevention of mental disability, and early identification, care, support, treatment, recovery
and reintegration of children and adolescents with mental disability;
15.
Calls on States to provide support to children with mental disability and their
families to prevent placement of children in institutions, and to ensure that decisions take
fully into account the principle of the best interests of the child, promote living
arrangements in family settings within the community and that procedural safeguards and
an independent and impartial review body in line with international standards are in place
to ensure that children in mental health institutions enjoy their fundamental freedoms and
basic rights;
Substance abuse
16.
Recalls the need to adopt strategies, to prevent and to address the harmful use
of alcohol and illicit substances with a holistic and human rights perspective, and to provide
information, education and counselling on the effects of substance abuse, but also the
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