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FOREWORD

The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being. Yet millions of people have no access to health-care or even basic sanitation. Faced with this reality, people living in poverty often feel powerless. Unaware of their human rights, they are resigned to the fact that health services

are too far away or cost too much. Those lucky enough to access health serv- ices are often treated badly. All this has to change. People need to be more aware of their rights so that they can take more control over their lives. Only then can effective action be generated to hold governments, and other powerful actors, accountable.

WHO is pleased to issue this publication as a contribution to the UN Decade on Human Rights Education (1995-2004). I hope it constitutes a step in the direction of making the right to health more widely known and understood as an instrument to empower those most in need.

Gro Harlem Brundtland Director–General WHO Geneva, September 2002

WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

The right to health.

1. Human rights - juvenile literature 2. Human rights - popular works

3. Health - juvenile literature 4. Health - popular works 5. Teaching materials ISBN 92 4 159028 9 (NLM classification: WA 30)

For any further information, please contact Health and Human Rights, Strategy Unit, Director – General’s Office, World Health Organization, nygrenkrugh@who.int, www.who.int/hhr

© World Health Organization 2002 All rights reserved.

The World Health Organization does not warrant that the information contained in this publica- tion is complete and correct and shall not be liable for any damages incurred as a result of its use.

Scenario: Helena Nygren-Krug, Jenny Cook and Mohamed Aouamri Drawings: Mohamed Aouamri

Printed in France

Thanks for comments, suggestions and other input: Aarthi Belani, Andrew Cassels, Jean Jacques Chajnaud, La Chataigneraie School, Jane Cottingham, Nathalie Drew, Ian Grubb, Asako Hattori, Katie Heller, Kajal Khanna, Amélie Krug, Marsh Gibbon First School (UK), Nafsiah Mboi, Tanya Norton, Annette Peters, Shanti Risal, Susan Isiko Strba, Nicole Valentine & Eugenio Villar.

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FOREWORD

The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being. Yet millions of people have no access to health-care or even basic sanitation. Faced with this reality, people living in poverty often feel powerless. Unaware of their human rights, they are resigned to the fact that health services

are too far away or cost too much. Those lucky enough to access health serv- ices are often treated badly. All this has to change. People need to be more aware of their rights so that they can take more control over their lives. Only then can effective action be generated to hold governments, and other powerful actors, accountable.

WHO is pleased to issue this publication as a contribution to the UN Decade on Human Rights Education (1995-2004). I hope it constitutes a step in the direction of making the right to health more widely known and understood as an instrument to empower those most in need.

Gro Harlem Brundtland Director–General WHO Geneva, September 2002

WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

The right to health.

1. Human rights - juvenile literature 2. Human rights - popular works

3. Health - juvenile literature 4. Health - popular works 5. Teaching materials ISBN 92 4 159028 9 (NLM classification: WA 30)

For any further information, please contact Health and Human Rights, Strategy Unit, Director – General’s Office, World Health Organization, nygrenkrugh@who.int, www.who.int/hhr

© World Health Organization 2002 All rights reserved.

The World Health Organization does not warrant that the information contained in this publica- tion is complete and correct and shall not be liable for any damages incurred as a result of its use.

Scenario: Helena Nygren-Krug, Jenny Cook and Mohamed Aouamri Drawings: Mohamed Aouamri

Printed in France

Thanks for comments, suggestions and other input: Aarthi Belani, Andrew Cassels, Jean Jacques Chajnaud, La Chataigneraie School, Jane Cottingham, Nathalie Drew, Ian Grubb, Asako Hattori, Katie Heller, Kajal Khanna, Amélie Krug, Marsh Gibbon First School (UK), Nafsiah Mboi, Tanya Norton, Annette Peters, Shanti Risal, Susan Isiko Strba, Nicole Valentine & Eugenio Villar.

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