Bearing Human Rights: Maternal Health and the Promise of ICPD

"ICPD cemented the foundation of human rights to achieve, among other things, health. This has permitted the construction of a framework for advocacy, accountability, and programming...[and] it permits an analysis of government action and inaction in terms of conduct and results."

This article is chapter 7 of the book Reproductive Health and Human Rights: The Way Forward (Laura Reichenbach and Mindy Jane Roseman, eds).