The roundtable focused on one critically important and often neglected component of a human rights-based approach to maternal mortality: accountability.
During the UN high-level event on the Millennium Development Goals in September 2008, IIMMHR called upon global leaders to recognize maternal health as a human right.
Statement delivered by Paul Hunt, the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, during a panel organized by the UN Human Rights Council on 5 June 2008.
Want to learn more about the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health? Click here to read a guide for civil society produced by the International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organisations.
Want to learn more about the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health? Click here to read a guide for civil society produced by the International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organisations.
