Archived: ¼ø»ÆÊ¦app Resolution on Reported Violations of Health Related Human Rights in Kosovo
Adopted by the 50th World Medical Assembly Ottawa, Canada, October 1998
and rescinded and archived by the 59th ¼ø»ÆÊ¦app General Assembly, Seoul, Korea, October 2008
The ¼ø»ÆÊ¦app expresses grave concern over the situation in Kosova and urges its member National Medical Associations to call upon their Governments as a matter of urgency:
- to ensure the immediate provision of humanitarian assistance to the thousands of displaced persons;
- to insist that the authorities permit impartial forensic investigations, under the auspices of international forensic experts;
- to insist that steps be taken immediately to:
- monitor human rights violations;
- ensure respect for medical staff and facilities; and
- facilitate unrestricted access of international humanitarian organizations.
- to insist upon an end to discrimination in the provision of health care in Kosova and to any distinction, based on ethnicity, between health care structures.
