212.The major challenges in the labor sector are as follows:
Ensuring access to work and appropriate labor conditions, thereby allowing
for a reduction in unemployment among the youth;
Banning and eradicating all forms of labor exploitation by strengthening labor
conditions and treatment of workers as well as programs for the eradication of
child labor;
Guaranteeing and protecting the rights to strike; and
Setting up labor courts.
Article 16: The Right to Health
213.The Charter says every individual shall have the right to enjoy the best attainable
state of physical and mental health, adding that State parties shall take the
necessary measures to protect the health of their people and to ensure that they
receive medical attention when they are sick.
214.In the Republic of Mozambique this right is enshrined in Article 89 CRM: “1.
Every citizen shall have the right to medical and health care in terms of the law,
and the duty to promote and protect public health”. In dealing with the
fulfillment of this right, including those responsible for ensuring such right,
Article 116 of the CRM says: “1. Medical and health care shall be provided
through a national health system serving the Mozambican people as a whole; 2.
Medical and health care shall be provided in terms of the law, thereby fulfilling
the goals set by the national health system; 3. The State shall promote the role of
citizens and institutions in raising community health levels; 4. The State shall
promote the expansion and equal access of every individual to the enjoyment of
this right.”
215.Regarding the organization of the national health system, Article 116 of the CRM
states: “1. Medical and health care shall be provided through a national health
system serving the Mozambican people as a whole; 2. Medical and health care
shall be provided in terms of the law, thereby fulfilling the goals set out in the
national health system; 3. The State shall promote the role of citizens and
institutions in the raising of community health levels; 4. The State shall promote
the expansion of medical and health care, and equal access of every individual to
the enjoyment of this right; 5. The State shall promote, regulate and control the
production, marketing and use of chemical, biological, pharmaceutical products
and other means of treating and diagnosing diseases; 6. Medical and health care
provided by communities and entities shall be in accordance with the law and
subject to State control”.
216.The fulfillment of the right to health, that is, access, assistance and all that it
entails is indispensable to the realization of all other human rights.
217. Aware of the importance of this principle, the government views the health
sector as a priority area in the country’s development. In strategic terms, the
Government’s Five-Year Plan has adopted priority measures related to the
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