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International standards and guidelines:

General Comment on Right to Water: [United Nations] Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights adopts General Comment on right to water (U.N. News Centre, 26 Nov. 2002)

International Agreements, Treaties, and Conventions on Environment and Human Health: A Summary Note by Chris Calamita (Chris Calamita, Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 21 Feb. 2002)

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966)

The right to the highest attainable standard of health: General comment 14 (Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 2000)

• {···español: El derecho al disfrute del más alto nivel posible de salud: CESCR Observación general 14}

• {···français: Le droit au meilleur état de santé susceptible d'être atteint: CESCR Observation générale 14} 

United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development (1986)

United Nations Principles of Medical Ethics relevant to the Role of Health Personnel, particularly Physicians, in the Protection of Prisoners and Detainees against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1982)

The Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights [explanatory material] (UNESCO)

• text of the declaration: Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights (UNESCO, 1997)

• Guidelines for the Implementation of the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights (UNESCO, 1999)

• Background documents and history of the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights (UNESCO)

• {···français} Vers une déclaration universelle sur le génome humain et les droits de l'homme (UNESCO)

• {···français} Déclaration universelle sur le génome humain et les droits de l'homme (UNESCO, 1997)

International Council of Nurses - selected guidelines:

• Nurses and Human Rights  

• {···español: Las enfermeras y los derechos humanos}

• {···français: Les infirmières et les droits de l'homme} 

Torture, Death Penalty and Participation by Nurses in Executions  

• {···español: La tortura, la pena de muerte y la participación de la enfermera en las ejecuciones}

• {···français: La torture, la peine capitale et la participation des infirmières aux exécutions} 

World Medical Association - selected guidelines:

• World Medical Association Declaration Concerning Support for Medical Doctors Refusing to Participate in, or to Condone, the Use of Torture or Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment

• World Medical Association International Code of Medical Ethics

• World Medical Association Proposal for a United Nations Rapporteur on the Independence and Integrity of Health Professionals

• World Medical Association Resolution on Human Rights

• World Medical Association Resolution on Physician Participation in Capital Punishment

• World Medical Association Statement on Pollution