IIMMHR | The International Initiative on Maternal Mortality and Human Rights

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New Addition to Resource Library

A human rights-based approach to improving maternal health

Published in ESR Review: Economic and Social Rights in South Africa.

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The rural areas of Ayaviri and Yauli, located in the highlands of the Puno & Huancavelica regions of Peru, have exorbitantly high poverty rates, as well as high rates of maternal mortality.

We are a CIVIL SOCIETY effort.
   We believe that MATERNAL MORTALITY can successfully be reduced if we put women's
   HUMAN RIGHTS at the center
            of the equation.

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The right to survive pregnancy is a

fundamental human right...

-- SOYATA MAIGA, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa

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