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<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">vern weitzel</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vern.weitzel@gmail.com">vern.weitzel@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0px"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica'; FONT-SIZE: medium"><b>From: </b></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica'; FONT-SIZE: medium">"Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)" <<a href="mailto:ruglucia@PAHO.ORG" target="_blank">ruglucia@PAHO.ORG</a>><br>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt 0.5in; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="maroon" size="3" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: maroon; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">A Human Rights Based Approach to Health</span></font></b></p>

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</span></font></b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights<span> </span><br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Information, Evidence and Research (IER/ETH) - World Health Organization</span></b></span></font></p>

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Available online at:<span> </span><a style="COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://bit.ly/9D91mp" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://bit.ly/9D91mp</span></font></a><span> </span><br>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt 0.5in; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">“……A human rights-based approach (HRBA) aims to support better and more sustainable development outcomes by analyzing and addressing the inequalities, discriminatory practices (de jure and de facto) and unjust power relations which are often at the heart of development problems.</span></font></p>

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<p style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; COLOR: black; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the WHO have issued a fact sheet on the Right to Health. The fact sheet aims to shed light on the right to health in international human rights law as it currently stands, amidst the plethora of initiatives and proposals of what the right to health may or should be. It illustrates implications for specific individuals and groups, elaborates upon States' obligations and ends with an overview of national, regional and international accountability and monitoring mechanisms.<img border="0" src="cid:image001.gif@01CB0640.73115360" width="1" height="1"></span></font></p>

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