Global/Africa: Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination meets with special rapporteur on right to health

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has met with the Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Paul Hunt, to exchange views on the ways in which they could enhance their work when addressing this basic right. Mr. Hunt indicated that his mandate was to help States and other actors to better promote and protect the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health in line with the Programme of Action adopted at the World Conference against Racism in Durban in 2001. As a means of making the right to health manageable, he had been focusing on the right to health for those living in poverty and on stigma and discrimination on the grounds of race and ethnicity.