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.
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