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The Lancet Commission for their 2017 report: Alleviating the access abyss in palliative care and pain relief—an imperative of universal health coverage. The report drew attention to palliative care, universal health coverage and the reduction of the global burden of disease, particularly in relation to the reduction and management of pain at end of life.

Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December – the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This year, Human Rights Day kicks off a year-long campaign to mark the upcoming 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a milestone document that proclaimed the inalienable rights which everyone is inherently entitled to as a human being — regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. It is the most translated document in the world, available in more than 500 languages.