IIMMHR | The International Initiative on Maternal Mortality and Human Rights

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New Addition to Resource Library

Human Rights-Based Approaches to Maternal Mortality Reduction Efforts

What's the value-added of a human rights approach?

Our new briefing paper draws on lessons learned from IIMMHR's field projects in India, Kenya, and Peru.

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Field Projects

Voices from the Ground

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.

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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Spotlight

UN HRC Passes Second Resolution on Maternal Mortality

In a follow-up to its 2009 resolution on maternal mortality, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a second resolution on maternal health as a human right in September 2010.

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