Image from Sahayog – women raising hands

New Addition to Resource Library

This fact sheet by the Center for Reproductive Rights commemorates the 15-year anniversary of the Beijing Conference, which produced the ground-breaking Beijing Platform for Action, a document widely regarded as the most comprehensive articulation of international commitments related to women’s human rights. The Platform for Action, among other things, acknowledges a woman’s right to reproductive health-care services to ensure safe pregnancy and childbirth.

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Field Projects

Sahayog

This project aims to address problems of poor quality services for maternal health in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, India.  Uttar Pradesh is a region in India with extremely high poverty rates, with almost a third of its population living below the national poverty line.