Right to Health of Internally Displaced Persons - IDP SriLanka

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According to UN Committee on Economic & Social & Cultural Rights 7 (UNCESCR), General Comment 14 , elements for respect for right to health include: (a)Availability : functioning public health and health care facilities, goods, services and programmes must be available in sufficient quantity. (b) Accessibility: Health facilities, goods and services have to be accessible to everyone without discrimination, within the jurisdiction of the State party.Accessibility has four overlapping dimensions: Non-discrimination : health facilities, goods and services must be accessible to all, especially the most vulnerable or marginalized sections of the population, in law and in fact, without discrimination on any of the prohibited grounds. Physical accessibility : health facilities, goods and services must be within safe physical reach for all sections of the population, especially vulnerable or marginalized groups, such as ethnic minorities and indigenous populations, women, children, adolescents, older persons, persons with disabilities and persons with HIV/AIDS. Accessibility also implies that medical services and underlying determinants of health, such as safe and potable water and adequate sanitation facilities, are within safe physical reach, including in rural areas. Economic accessibility : health facilities, goods and services must be affordable for all. Information accessibility: accessibility includes the right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas concerning 8 health issues . 7 United Nations, 2000, Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (UNCESCR), General Comment No. 14 (Eleventh Session).The right to the highest attainable standard of health UN Document, E/C.12/2000/4. UN, Geneva. No 30 8 However, accessibility of information should not impair the right to have personal health data treated with confidentiality 17
(c) Acceptability: All health facilities, goods and services must be respectful of medical ethics and culturally appropriate. (d) Quality : All health facilities, goods and services must also be scientifically and medically appropriate and of good quality. According to the Article 2 of the ICESCR each state party undertakes to take steps to the maximum of its available resources, with a view to achieving progressively the full realization of the recognized rights by all appropriate means. In General Comment No. 3 on the Nature of States 9 Parties Obligations , it was stipulated that States parties have a core obligation to ensure the satisfaction of, at the very least, minimum essential levels of each of the rights enunciated in the Covenant 10 (ICESCR), including essential primary health care . These obligations are further clarified by The Limburg Principles on the 11 Implementation of ICESCR and Maastricht Guidelines on Violations 12 of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights . 9 Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment 3, The nature of States parties obligations (Art. 2, para.1 of the Covenant) (Fifth session, 1990), Compilation of General Comments and General Recommendations Adopted by Human Rights Treaty Bodies, U.N. Doc. HRI\GEN\1\Rev.1 at 45 (1994). 10 According to the Committee's view, core obligation includes at least the following obligations: (a) To ensure the right of access to health facilities, goods and services on a non-discriminatory basis, especially for vulnerable or marginalized groups; (b) To ensure access to the minimum essential food which is nutritionally adequate and safe, to ensure freedom from hunger to everyone; (c) To ensure access to basic shelter, housing and sanitation, and an adequate supply of safe and potable water; (d) To provide essential drugs, as from time to time defined under the WHO Action Programme on Essential Drugs; (e) To ensure equitable distribution of all health facilities, goods and services;(f) To adopt and implement a national public health strategy and plan of action, on the basis of epidemiological evidence, addressing the health concerns of the whole population. 11 The Limburg Principles on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, United Nations document (UN Doc. E/CN.4/1987/ 17). 12 By the International Commission of Jurists at the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights and the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights in Maastricht, January 22-26, 1997 18
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Page 48 and 49: In Batticaloa West, the drinking wa
Page 50 and 51: Ensuring safety of water Ensure ade
Page 52 and 53: The lack of coordination between th
Page 54 and 55: Regarding the impact of these GLs,
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8.C onclusion The need for physical
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9. Recommendations 1) Improvements
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elaborated in the “Guidelines for
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Annexure Annexure 1 IDPs Population
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Annexure III Statistics relating to
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Annexure V Carder position as at Se
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3. Safe disposal of excreta Ensure
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Annexure VII Health Indicators Isla
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Annexure X MCH Clinics at Trincomal
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Article 25 Right to adequate standa
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