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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.

Published in ESR Review: Economic and Social Rights in South Africa. Article begins on page 21.

This fact sheet summarizes the key components of the 2009 Human Rights Council resolution on maternal mortality, and outlines key steps that advocates, governments, and donors can take to encourage its implementation.

"Unless India actually counts all the women who die because of childbirth, it won't be able to prevent those thousands of unnecessary deaths. Accountability might seem like an abstract concept, but for Indian women it's a matter of life and death."

This article explores the critical role of civil society in the UN Human Rights Council's resolution on maternal mortality.

At the invitation of the Indian government, the Special Rapporteur on the right to health visited India in late 2007.

The mission focused on the issue of maternal mortality with a view to understanding, in the context of the right to the highest attainable standard of health, the steps taken by India to reduce this phenomenon, and to make constructive recommendations.

This note provides some preliminary observations arising from the mission.

On June 5 2009, IIMMHR participated in a panel of international and national experts during the 11th Session of the UN Human Rights Council.

This report examines the often neglected topic of maternal morbidity, or women’s illnesses and injuries related to pregnancy and childbirth.

Among the report's recommendations:

• Increase resources to sexual and reproductive health and rights
• Encourage equitable health care
• Make governments accountable