realization of the right to health. Examples include the failure to
adopt or implement a national health policy designed to ensure
the right to health for everyone; insufficient expenditure or
misallocation of public resources which results in the nonenjoyment of the right to health by individuals or groups,
particularly the vulnerable or marginalized; the failure to
monitor the realization of the right to health at the national level,
for example by identifying right to health indicators and
benchmarks; the failure to take measures to reduce the
inequitable distribution of health facilities, goods and services;
the failure to adopt a gender-sensitive approach to health; and
the failure to reduce infant and maternal mortality rates."
54.
Additionally, the right to health is recognized, inter alia, in article 5
(e) (iv) of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination of 1965, in articles 11.1 (f) and 12 of the Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women of 1979
and in article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1989.
Several regional human rights instruments also recognize the right to health,
such as the European Social Charter of 1961 as revised (art. 11), the African
Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights of 1981 (art. 16) and the Additional
Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 1988 (art. 10). Similarly, the right
to health has been proclaimed by the Commission on Human Rights, as well
as in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action of 1993 and other
international instruments. [See : United Nations. Economic and Social
Council.
The Right to the highest attainable standard of health :
08/11/2000. E/C 12/2000/4]
55.
This Court is of the view that Article 21 has to be interpreted in
conformity with International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966
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