Annex 1
General
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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.”
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