A source of important documents and instruments that impact on peoples' health.
Select Healthy Document Home --------------------- Introduction - Acknowledgements - Foreword --------------------- Medical Ethics - The Hippocratic Oath - World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki --------------------- Health Rights - A Patient's Bill of Rights - Ukunda Declaration on Economic Policy and Health - Indian People's Health Charter - People's Health Charter - Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Highest Attainable Standard of Health --------------------- Public Health - The Declaration of Alma Ata - Ottawa Charter on Health Promotion - Declaration of Personal Commitment - Declaration on Occupational Health for All - Jakarta Declaration on Health Promotion - WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures - Stockholm Declaration on Persistent Organic Pollutants - Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees - International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination - International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights - WHO's Programme on Smoking and Health - WHO Criteria for Medical Drug Promotion - WHO Criteria on the Selection of Essential Drugs - Revised Drug Strategy - Framework Convention on Tobacco Control - Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants --------------------- Health and Social Development - Declaration on the Right to Development - The Rio Declaration - Helsinki Declaration on Action for Environment and Health in Europe - Copenhagen Declaration - The Istanbul Declaration and Habitat Agenda --------------------- Nutrition - Rome Declaration on Hunger - World Declaration on Nutrition - Rome Declaration on World Food Security --------------------- Children's Health - Innocenti Declaration on the Protection, Promotion and Support of Breastfeeding - World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children - The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes - The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child --------------------- Women's Health - Bali Declaration on Population and Sustainable Development - Declaration for Women's Reproductive and Sexual Rights and Health - Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action - Statement of the Health Caucus to the NGO Committee on the Status of Women - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women - Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action - ICPD Preamble and Principles - Beijing Platform For Actions - C183 Maternity Protection Convention, 2000 - R191 Maternity Protection Recommendation, 2000 --------------------- Making Declarations Work --------------------- Appendices - World Health Organisation - Sources of Documents - Contact Addresses --------------------- Sitemap About Us Contact Us
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml
Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
http://healthydocuments.org/public/doc16.html
International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination
http://healthydocuments.org/public/doc17.html
Universal Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/malnutrition.htm
International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights
http://healthydocuments.org/public/doc18.html
The Arusha Declaration – Ten Years After, by Julius Nyerere
http://www.tzonline.org/pdf/thearushadeclarationtenyearsafter.pdf
Declaration of Alma-Ata International Conference on Primary Health Care, Alma-Ata, USSR
http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/113877/E93944.pdf
The Meaning of ‘health for all by year 2000”, by Halfdan Mahler. World Health Forum
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/temp/Mahler_1981_WorldHealthForum.pdf
The Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women
http://www.5wwc.org/conference_background/1985_WCW_strategies.html
World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna, Austria
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ABOUTUS/Pages/ViennaWC.aspx
The Hippocratic Oath
http://www.usmedstudents.com/links/hippocraticoath.htm
World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki
http://www.ipcb.org/resources/heldec.html
UN Principles of Medical Ethics
http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/37/a37r194.htm
A Patient's Bill of Rights
http://www.healthydocuments.org/rights/doc3.html
Ukunda Declaration on Economic Policy and Health
http://www.healthydocuments.org/rights/doc4.html
Indian People's Health Charter
http://www.healthydocuments.org/rights/doc5.html
People's Health Charter
http://www.phmovement.org
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
The Right Highest to Attainable Standard of Health
http://shr.aaas.org/escrdocs.nsf/a831e5ffe96b5a 32802567a 900438e22/1e62a52eeae47d5c852569a60067b1b0?Open Document
The Declaration of Hawaii - World Psychiatric Association (WPA)
http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=5&content_id=28
Madrid Declaration on Ethical Standards for Psychiatric Practice
http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=5&content_id=48
Amsterdam Declaration to Stop TB
http://www.stoptb.org/events/meetings/amsterdam_conference/
The Abuja Declaration and the Plan of Action from The African Summit on Roll Back Malaria
http://www.rollbackmalaria.org/docs/abuja_declaration_final.htm
Abuja Declaration On Hiv/Aids, Tuberculosis And Other Related Infectious Diseases
http://www.uneca.org/adf2000/abuja%20declaration.htm
Declaration of Committment on HIV/AIDS
http://www.unaids.org/en/aboutunaids/ unitednationsdeclarationsandgoals/2001declarationofcommitmentonhivaids/
Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS
http://www.unaids.org/en/aboutunaids/ unitednationsdeclarationsandgoals/2006politicaldeclarationonhivaids/
The Graz Declaration on Disability and Ageing
http://www.easpd.eu/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=eDUBIDI0HSU%3D&tabid=3531
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine
http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/en/treaties/html/164.htm
Youth Declaration from 5th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights
http://www.iwhc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3609&Itemid=1167
Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS - Intensifying our Efforts to Eliminate HIV/AIDS
http://www.unaids.org/en/aboutunaids/unitednations declarationsandgoals/2006politicaldeclarationonhivaids/
The Declaration of Alma Ata
http://www.who.dk/policy/almaata.htm
Ottawa Charter on Health Promotion
http://www.who.dk/policy/ottawa.htm
Declaration of Personal Commitment
http://www.healthydocuments.org/public/doc11.html
Declaration on Occupational Health for All
http://www.who.int/environmental_information/ Occuphealth/declarationang.htm
Jakarta Declaration on Health Promotion
http://www.ldb.org/iuhpe/jakdec.htm
WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/sps_e/spsagr_e.htm
Stockholm Declaration on POP
http://www.ipen.org/stockholmdec.html
http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/refworld/legal/instrume/ asylum/1951eng.htm
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/d_icerd.htm
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_cescr.htm
WHO's Programme on Smoking and Health
http://tobacco.who.int/en/fctc/WHA33-35.html
WHO Criteria on the Selection of Essential Drugs
http://www.healthlibrary.com/reading/banyan1/4appen4.htm
Revised Drug Strategy
http://www.who.int/wha-1998/WH00/PDF/ea10.pdf
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
http://tobacco.who.int/en/fctc/WHA53-16.html
Stockholm Convention on POP
http://irptc.unep.ch/pops/POPs_Inc/ dipcon/meetingdocs/en/meetingdoclist_en.htm
Jakarta Declaration on Leading Health Promotion into the 21st Century
http://www.who.int/healthpromotion/conferences/ previous/jakarta/declaration/en/
The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, 1992
http://www.basel.int/TheConvention/Overview/tabid/ 1271/Default.aspx
Global Call for Action around the 30th Anniversary of the Alma Ata Declaration
http://www.phmovement.org/en/node/867
The Doha Declaration on the Trips Agreement and Public Health
http://www.who.int/medicines/areas/policy/ doha_declaration/en/index.html
NASSAU DECLARATION ON HEALTH 2001: The Health of the Region is the Wealth of the Region
http://www.caricom.org/jsp/community/chronic_non _communicable_diseases/tenets_nassau_declaration.jsp
Moscow Declaration on Prison Health as Part of Public Health
http://www.euro.who.int/en/what-we-do/health-topics/health-determinants/prisons-and-health/
The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
http://bch.cbd.int/protocol/background/
Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health (CIPIH)
http://www.who.int/intellectualproperty/en/
Oslo Ministerial Declaration – global health: a pressing foreign policy issue of our time
http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/ud/aktuelt/taler_artikler/ utenriksministeren/2007/lancet.html?id=466469
The Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global Action
http://www.who.int/workforcealliance/knowledge/ resources/kampala_declaration/en/
UN General Assembly Resolution 63/33 on Global Health and Foreign Policy
http://www.who.int/trade/Foreignpolicyandhealth/en/ index.html
Ministerial Declaration on Global Public Health
http://www.un.org/en/ecosoc/about/
From Kampala to Bangkok: Reviewing Progress, Renewing Commitments
http://www.who.int/workforcealliance/knowledge/resources/ bkkoutcome/en/index.html
Beijing Declaration of the BRICS Health Ministers’ Meeting
http://www.cfr.org/global-health/brics-health-ministers-meeting----beijing-declaration/p25620
Protecting the Right to Health through action on the Social Determinants of Health - A Declaration by Public Interest Civil Society Organisations and Social Movements
http://www.phmovement.org/en/node/6243
Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Health
http://www.who.int/sdhconference/en/
First Global Ministerial Conference on Healthy Lifestyles and Noncommunicable Disease Control, Moscow
http://www.who.int/nmh/events/moscow_ncds_2011/en/
1st Peoples Declaration in response to the UNFCCC COP 17, Global Climate and Health Summit in Durban, South Africa
http://www.psychology.org.au/
2nd Peoples Declaration in response to the UNFCCC COP 17, Global Climate and Health Summit in Durban, South Africa
http://www.forestpeoples.org
Nightingale Declaration for A Healthy World
http://www.nightingaledeclaration.net/the-declaration
The World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA), Addis Ababa Declaration
http://www.wfpha.org/
Declaration on the Right to Development
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/74.htm
Rio Declaration
http://www.unep.org/Documents/Default.asp? DocumentID=78&ArticleID=1163
Helsinki Declaration on Action for Environment and Health in Europe
http://www.who.dk/envhlth/decl-e.htm
Copenhagen Declaration
http://www.visionoffice.com/socdev/wssdco-0.htm
Istanbul Declaration and Habitat Agenda
http://www.undp.org/un/habitat/agenda/
United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), Programme for Action
http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/populatin/icpd.htm
Amsterdam Declaration on the Social Quality of Europe, Amsterdam
http://www.socialquality.org/
Ouagadougou Declaration
http://www.undemocracy.com/
Dakar Declaration - Pesticide Action Network Fifth International Conference
http://www.pan-international.org/pan-v1/index.html
The Dakar Declaration for the total unconditional cancellation of African and Third World debt
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/50Years_Enough/ Dakar_Declaration.html
Rome Declaration on Harmonisation
http://www.oecd.org/
The Oslo Declaration on Sustainable Consumption
http://www.oslodeclaration.org/
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/ DRIPS_en.pdf
The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and Accra Agenda for Action
http://www.oecd.org/document/18/0,3746,en_2649_ 3236398_35401554_1_1_1_1,00.html
Seoul Declaration on Safety and Health at Work
http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/press-and-media-centre/statements-and-speeches/WCMS_095910/lang--en/index.htm
Doha Declaration on Financing for Development: outcome document of the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus
http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/doha/
Klimaforum 9, “People’s Declaration on System Change – Not Climate Change”
http://declaration.klimaforum.org/
Durban Declaration, 8th Disabled People’s International World Assembly
http://www.dpi.org/lang-en/documents/index?page=18
ISTANBUL DECLARATION: TOWARDS AN EQUITABLE AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURE FOR ALL
http://hdr.undp.org/en/humandev/forum2012/
The Future We Demand - Statement by Pacific CSOs and allies the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development
http://www.dawnnet.org
DAWN SPEAKS TRUTH TO POWER AT RIO+20!
Rome Declaration on Hunger
http://www.healthydocuments.org/nutrition/doc30.html
World Declaration on Nutrition
www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/ECONOMIC/ESN/icn/ icndec.htm
Rome Declaration on World Food Security
www.fao.org/wfs/final/rd-e.htm
Final Declaration of The World Forum On Food Sovereignty
http://www.ukabc.org/
Declaration of the World Food Summit: Five Years Later
http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsummit/english/newsroom/
news/8580-en.html
The Giessen Declaration (International Union of Nutritional Sciences)
http://www.wphna.org
Declaration of Nyéléni
http://www.world-governance.org
People’s Charter For Food And Nutrition Security
http://www.navdanya.org/campaigns/right-to-food
STOP disease-related malnutrition and diseases due to malnutrition! Prague Declaration
http://www.senpe.com/praga.html
Declaration from Social Movements/NGOs/CSOs Parallel Forum to the World Summit on Food Security
http://wocan.org
Declaration of The World Summit On Food Security
http://www.fao.org
Joint Statement Calling For Food Rights of Infants (First Year of Life)
http://www.righttofoodindia.org
Right to Food Resolution from the Central American Council of Human Rights
http://km.fao.org/
Declaration from the South Asia Regional Peoples Convention on Food Sovereignty
http://www.sacw.net/
People’s Agreement of Cochabamba, 2011
http://pwccc.wordpress.com
Innocenti Declaration on the Protection
http://www.babymilkaction.org/regs/innocenti.html
World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children
http://www.unicef.org/wsc/declare.htm
The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes
http://www.itcilo.it/english/actrav/telearn/global/ilo/guide/ breast.htm
http://www.babymilkaction.org/regs/thecode.html
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
http://eurochild.gla.ac.uk/Documents/UN/Rights/ UNconvention.htm
African Charter On The Rights And Welfare Of The Child
http://www.au.int/en/content/african-charter-rights-and-
welfare-child
Joint Declaration from Children's Environmental Health II: A Global Forum for Action
http://www.cehn.org/
‘A world fit for children’, Resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly at the 6th Plenary Meeting
http://www.unicef.org/worldfitforchildren/
Stockholm Declaration on Children and Residential Care
http://resourcecentre.savethechildren.se/content/library/
documents/stockholm-declaration-children-and-residential-care-
12-15-may-2003
Innocenti Declaration (Innocenti +15)
http://innocenti15.net/
World Fit for Children +5 Declaration
Florence Declaration, Mental wellbeing of children in Europe, Plans and perspectives, XIII ESCAP Congress
http://www.escap-net.org/
The Rio de Janeiro Declaration and Call for Action to Prevent and Stop Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents, World Congress III
http://www.ecpat.net/WorldCongressIII/index.php
Colombo Declaration on Infant and Young Child Feeding
http://www.ibfan.org
European Declaration on the Health of Children and Young People with Intellectual Disabilities and their Families
http://www.euro.who.int/en/what-we-do/health-topics/
noncommunicable-diseases/mental-health/publications/2010
/european-declaration-on- the-health-of-children-and-young-
people-with-intellectual-disabilities-and-their-families2
Bali Declaration on Population and Sustainable Development
http://www.un.org/Depts/escap/pop/appc.htm
Declaration for Women's Reproductive and Sexual Rights and Health
http://www.healthydocuments.org/women/doc38.html
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/bejingmnu.htm
Statement of the Health Caucus to the NGO Committee on the Status of Women
http://awh.commat.org/entrance/files/healthstate.htm
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
gopher://gopher.un.org:70/00/ga/cedaw/convention
Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
http://www.unhchr.ch/huridocda/huridoca.nsf/(Symbol)/ A.CONF.157.23.En?OpenDocument
ICPD Preamble and Principles
http://www.undp.org/popin/icpd/conference/offeng/poa.html
Beijing Platform For Actions
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/platform/
C183 Maternity Protection Convention
http://www.healthydocuments.org/women/doc45.html
R191 Maternity Protection Recommendation
http://www.healthydocuments.org/women/doc46.html
Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women
http://www2.ohchr.org
Women's Health Throughout the Lifespan Draft Resolution for the UN General Assembly revised
http://www.gawh.org/home.php5
Women's Caucus Declaration at the Third Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)
http://www.twnside.org.sg
Women’s Caucus Declaration: 4th WORLD WATER FORUM
http://www.worldwaterforum4.org.mx/home/..%5Cfiles%
5CDeclaraciones%5CWomen.pdf
Voices of African Women Declaration
http://www.ukwilpf.org/
Rural Women's Declaration - Rights, Empowerment and Liberation
http://www.asianruralwomen.net/html/declaration.htm
Kyiv Declaration on Women’s Health in Prison - Correcting Gender Inequity in Prison Health
http://www.unodc.org/
International Indigenous Women’s Symposium Declaration for Health, Life and Defense of Our Lands, Rights, and Future Generations
http://inciteblog.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/international-
indigenous-womens-environmental-and-reproductive-health-
symposium-declaration/
Mandaluyong Declaration, Indigenous Women's Declaration on CC and REDD+
http://www.tebtebba.org/index.php/content/164-indigenous-womens
-declaration-on-cc-and-redd
Afghan Women’s Declaration
http://www.gnwp.org/afghan-womens-declaration-international-
conference-on-afghanistan-in-bonn
Asean Human Rights Activists Call For a SOGI-Inclusive Asean Human Rights Declaration
DAWN Statement at RIO+20: Governments Gamble with our Future. South Feminists Demand Responsible Action Now
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