A/HRC/RES/27/14
4.
Calls upon States and other relevant stakeholders, including national human
rights institutions and non-governmental organizations, to take action at all levels to address
the interlinked root causes of preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years
of age, such as poverty, malnutrition, harmful practices, violence, stigma and
discrimination, unsafe households and environments, lack of safe drinking water and
sanitation, lack of accessible, affordable, quality and appropriate health care, services,
medicines and vaccinations, late detection of childhood illnesses and low levels and quality
of education;
5.
Calls upon States to strengthen their international commitment, cooperation
and mutual assistance with the objective of reducing and eliminating preventable mortality
and morbidity of children under 5 years of age, including through the sharing of good
practices, research, policies, monitoring and capacity-building;
6.
Calls upon all relevant United Nations agencies to provide technical
cooperation and assistance to States, as requested, to support the application of the technical
guidance, including through the development and dissemination of tools for its
operationalization at all relevant stages of national planning and action cycles for child
health and survival;
7.
Reaffirms that the Human Rights Council should promote the effective
coordination and mainstreaming of human rights within the United Nations system;
8.
Encourages the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in
close collaboration with the World Health Organization, to bring the technical guidance to
the attention of the Secretary-General and all United Nations entities with mandates
relevant to preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age, and to
continue dialogue on the issue of preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5
years of age with all relevant actors and in that regard;
9.
Encourages further consideration of preventable mortality and morbidity of
children under 5 years of age in the post-2015 development agenda;
10.
Requests the High Commissioner, in close collaboration with the World
Health Organization and in consultation with States, relevant United Nations agencies,
including the United Nations Children’s Fund and the Joint United Nations Programme on
HIV/AIDS, as well as the special procedures mandate holders, human rights mechanisms,
regional organizations and civil society, to prepare a report on the practical application of
the technical guidance and its impact on the development and implementation of policies
and programmes in States to reduce preventable mortality and morbidity of children under
5 years of age, and to present it to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-third session;
11.
Decides to remain seized of the matter.
39th meeting
25 September 2014
[Adopted without a vote.]
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