World Health Organization Organisation mondiale de la Santé FIFTY-FIRST WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY (Draft) A51/37 15 May 1998
Third report of Committee B (Draft)
Committee B held its third meeting on 14 May 1998 under the chairmanship of Mr N.S. de Silva (Sri Lanka). It was decided to recommend to the Fifty-first World Health Assembly the adoption of the attached resolutions relating to the following agenda items: 25. Scale of assessments 25.2 Scale of assessments for the financial period 1998-1999 One resolution 29. Collaboration within the United Nations system and with other intergovernmental organizations (Article 18(f)) 29.1 General matters One resolution entitled: % Health of children and adolescents
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Agenda item 25.2
Scale of assessments for the financial period 1998-1999
The Fifty-first World Health Assembly 1. DECIDES that the scale of assessments for the year 1999 shall, subject to the provisions of paragraph 2 below, be as follows: Members and Associate Members WHO (revised) scale 1999 % Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Central African Republic 0.003 0.003 0.092 0.004 0.010 0.002 1.008 0.011 1.458 0.926 0.022 0.015 0.017 0.010 0.008 0.081 1.085 0.001 0.002 0.001 0.007 0.005 0.010 1.446 0.020 0.019 0.002 0.001 0.001 0.013 2.710 0.002 0.001
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Members and Associate Members
WHO (revised) scale 1999 %
Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Congo Cook Islandsa Costa Rica Côte d’Ivoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland France Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran (Islamic Republic of) Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan
0.001 0.129 0.957 0.107 0.001 0.003 0.001 0.016 0.009 0.035 0.025 0.033 0.119 0.019 0.007 0.680 0.001 0.001 0.015 0.020 0.064 0.012 0.001 0.001 0.015 0.006 0.004 0.533 6.435 0.015 0.001 0.019 9.651 0.007 0.345 0.001 0.018 0.003 0.001 0.001 0.002 0.003 0.118 0.031 0.294 0.181 0.190 0.044 0.220 0.339 5.345 0.006 19.665 0.006 0.065
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Not a Member of the United Nations.
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Members and Associate Members
WHO (revised) scale 1999 %
Kenya Kiribatia Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Lao People’s Democratic Republic Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Lithuania Luxembourg Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Micronesia (Federated States of) Monaco Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Naurua Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niuea Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Ricob,c Qatar Republic of Korea Republic of Moldova Romania 1 2
0.007 0.001 0.132 0.008 0.001 0.024 0.016 0.002 0.002 0.130 0.022 0.067 0.003 0.002 0.177 0.001 0.002 0.014 0.001 0.001 0.009 0.964 0.001 0.004 0.002 0.040 0.001 0.008 0.007 0.001 0.004 1.605 0.217 0.001 0.002 0.039 0.001 0.600 0.050 0.058 0.001 0.013 0.007 0.014 0.093 0.079 0.204 0.410 0.001 0.032 0.978 0.018 0.066
Not a Member of the United Nations. Not a Member of the United Nations. 3 Associate Member of WHO.
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Members and Associate Members
WHO (revised) scale 1999 %
Russian Federation Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa San Marino Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerlanda Syrian Arab Republic Tajikistan Thailand The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Togo Tokelaua,b Tongaa Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Tuvalua Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland United Republic of Tanzania United States of America Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Viet Nam Yemen Yugoslavia Zambia Zimbabwe
1.463 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.002 0.001 0.560 0.006 0.002 0.001 0.173 0.038 0.060 0.001 0.001 0.360 2.548 0.012 0.007 0.004 0.002 1.067 1.196 0.063 0.005 0.164 0.004 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.017 0.027 0.433 0.008 0.001 0.004 0.297 0.175 5.009 0.003 25.000 0.047 0.036 0.001 0.173 0.007 0.010 0.033 0.002 0.009
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2. REQUESTS the Director-General, in the event that assessments are fixed provisionally or definitively by the present Health Assembly for any new Members not already included in the scale, to adjust the scale as set forth in paragraph 1.
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Agenda item 29.1
Collaboration within the United Nations system and with other intergovernmental organizations Health of children and adolescents
The Fifty-first World Health Assembly, Guided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; Stressing the importance of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which inter alia recognizes the child’s and adolescent’s right to the highest attainable standard of health and access to health care; Recalling resolutions WHA45.22 and WHA42.41 on child’s and adolescent’s health, as well as resolution 1998/76 of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights; Reaffirming WHO’s commitment to implement the relevant recommendations and commitments adopted by the World Summit for Children (1990), the International Conference on Nutrition (1992), the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (1992), the World Conference on Human Rights (1993), the International Conference on Population and Development (1994), the World Summit for Social Development (1995), the Fourth World Conference on Women (1995) and the World Food Summit (1996); Recognizing that the health of children and adolescents constitutes a critical element for the health of future generations and for health and human development in general; Taking note with appreciation of the significant progress which has been achieved in the implementation of the decade goals of the World Summit for Children (1990); aware, however, that child and infant mortality and morbidity as well as the extent of health problems of adolescents are still unacceptably high in many parts of the world; Stressing the special health needs of young children, particularly those in developing countries, and adolescents worldwide; Underlining the need for mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes relating to children and adolescents, 1. URGES the Director-General: (1) to give high priority to improving child’s and adolescent’s health across all relevant WHO programmes as an essential contribution to reaching the highest attainable level of health for all; (2) to contribute to the collective efforts of the international community to promote the effective implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the States Parties and to strengthen WHO’s cooperation within the United Nations system on global, regional and country level, in particular with UNICEF, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNFPA, UNDP, ILO, other relevant bodies and organizations
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of the United Nations system, and with regional organizations, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations and institutions; (3) to strengthen further WHO’s cooperation with the Committee on the Rights of the Child and to collaborate with Member States, at their request, in preparing the relevant parts of reports to the Committee on the Rights of the Child and implementing its recommendations; (4) to bring to the attention of States and relevant parts of the United Nations system, in particular the Commission on Human Rights, concern over health problems affecting the rights of children and adolescents; 2. CALLS UPON all Member States to undertake all appropriate measures to pursue the full implementation of the child’s and adolescent’s right to the highest attainable standard of health and access to health services; 3. APPEALS to States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child to include information on health and health services in their reports to the Committee on the Rights of the Child and to take into account the recommendations made by the Committee in the implementation of the relevant provisions of the Convention.
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