Post-2015 UN Summit: NGO coalition urges to strengthen health and wellbeing in preamble and declaration

22nd July 2015

Combined comments submitted by members of the Health in Post-­2015 NGO Coalition and other civil society organizations on the final draft of the outcome document for the UN Summit to adopt the Post‐2015 Development Agenda.

The Health in Post-­2015 NGO Coalition urges strengthening health and wellbeing in the preamble and declaration of the final outcome document. While we welcome the fact that the substantive issues of paragraph 24 have been amended to reflect current terminology and in some cases, an expanded agenda (i.e. the addition of hepatitis), we note with concern the weakening of the language regarding the proposed action to be taken by all. We wish to see the strongest possible language in order to ensure that existing commitments and pledges translate into reality by 2030.

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