The Americas

The roundtable focused on one critically important and often neglected component of a human rights-based approach to maternal mortality: accountability.

What exactly does a human rights approach to maternal mortality reduction efforts involve?

New publication of the IIMMHR! This brief draws on three recent examples of civil society groups engaged with budgets to explore the relevance of civil society budget analysis and advocacy and its potential as a tool to hold governments accountable for their maternal mortality reduction commitments.

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"If empirical evidence from public health indicates that EmOC, skilled attendance and referral networks are the keys to preventing and reducing maternal mortality, human rights law requires that these aspects of care are to be made available, accessible, acceptable and of adequate quality for the entire population on the basis of non-discrimination."