A new development paradigm post-2015, a comprehensive goal for health that includes sexual and reproductive health and rights, and another for gender equality

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1 Full text at: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2zDeXV8KPlrdkhEQ1VUYm9YeHc/edit?usp=sharing&pli=1.

2 “Twelve years after African governments pledged in the Abuja Declaration to allocate at least 15% of their annual budgets to health care by 2015, just six countries had met this goal… Moreover, about a quarter of African Union member states have regressed and are now spending less on health than they were in 2001.” African governments still underfunding health. Irin News. 23 July 2013. http://www.irinnews.org/report/98459/african-governments-still-underfunding-health.

3 Network of UK-Based Global Health Networks. Draft Policies for Global Health in Party Manifestos, source unknown.

4 Ocejo A. Health, Citizenship, and Human Rights Advocacy Initiative: Improving Access To Health Services in Mexico. International Budget Partnership Impact Case Study No. 15, July 2013. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2326607.

5 Victora CG, Vaughan P, Barros FC, et al. Explaining trends in inequities: evidence from Brazilian child health studies. Lancet 2000;356(9235):1093–98.

6 London L, Schneider H. Globalisation and health inequalities: can a human rights paradigm create space for civil society action? Social Science & Medicine 2012;74(1):6–13.

7 Arutyunova A, Clark C. Watering the Leaves, Starving the Roots: The Status of Financing for Women's Rights Organizing and Gender Equality. Association for Women’s Rights in Development. 2013. http://www.awid.org/Library/Watering-the-Leaves-Starving-the-Roots.

8 Irin. Global Analysis: What future for private sector involvement in humanitarianism? 26 August 2013. http://www.irinnews.org/report/98641/analysis-what-future-for-private-sector-involvement-in-humanitarianism.

9 World Health Organization. Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health. Geneva: WHO; 2008. www.who.int/social_determinants/final_report/.

10 Marmot M, Bell R. Fair society, healthy lives. Public Health 2012;126(Suppl. 1):S4–10.

11 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 1965; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966; International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 1966; Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women 1979; Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 1984; Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989; International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Their Families 1990; Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2008.

12 E.g. the Vienna Conference on Human Rights Declaration and Programme of Action (1993), ICPD Programme of Action (1994), and Beijing Platform for Action (1995), as well as Rio+20 The Future We Want.

13 UN Human Rights, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Universal Periodic review. http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/Upr/Pages/UPRMain.aspx.

14 Three regional human rights treat bodies (Europe, InterAmerica, Africa), two regional human rights courts (Europe, Inter-America), treaty monitoring bodies (e.g. CEDAW), special rapporteurs (including on the right to health), specialised agencies for monitoring (e.g. WHO, UNFPA, UNAIDS), policy-setting bodies such as the Commission on the Status of Women and Commission on Population and Development, Human Rights Council, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – and no doubt I’ve left many more out.

15 Ditchburn J. Canada slams war rape, abortion stance murky. Canadian Press, 27 September 2013. http://globalnews.ca/news/869355/canada-slams-war-rape-abortion-stance-murky/.