Annex 1 General Comment Provisions related to Reproductive Rights 4. To provide education and access to information concerning the main health problems in the community, including methods of ­preventing and controlling them; 5. To provide appropriate training for health personnel, including ­education on health and human rights.” In addition, “National health strategies should identify appropriate right to health indicators and benchmarks. The indicators should be designed to monitor, at the national and international levels, the State party’s obligations under article 12. States may obtain guidance on a ­ ppropriate right to health indicators, which should address different aspects of the right to health, from the ongoing work of WHO and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in this fi eld. Right to health indicators require disaggregation on the prohibited grounds of discrimination”, cf. ­Paragraph 57. Paragraph 59 deals with remedies and accountability: “Any person or group victim of a violation of the right to health should have access to effective judicial or other appropriate remedies at both national and international levels. All victims of such violations should be ­entitled to adequate reparation, which may take the form of restitution, ­compensation, satisfaction or guarantees of non-repetition. National ombudsmen, human rights commissions, consumer forums, patients’ rights associations or similar institutions should address violations of the right to health.” 133

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