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World Health Organisation | Sources of Documents | Contact Addresses | Time Line

 

Historically Significant
Medical Ethics
Health Rights
Public Health
Development
Nutrition
Children's 
Women's Health       

 

 

    Historically Significant

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

 

    Medical Ethics
    Health Rights

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/

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    Public Health

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

Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees

http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/refworld/legal/instrume/
asylum/1951eng.htm

International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination

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/

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    Health and Social Development

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!

 http://www.dawnnet.org

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    Nutrition

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

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    Children's Health

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

http://www.unicef.org/worldfitforchildren/

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

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    Women's Health

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

 http://www.dawnnet.org

DAWN Statement at RIO+20: Governments Gamble with our Future. South Feminists Demand Responsible Action Now

 http://www.dawnnet.org

 

 

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