The roundtable focused on one critically important and often neglected component of a human rights-based approach to maternal mortality: accountability.
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.
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."
Published in ESR Review: Economic and Social Rights in South Africa. Article begins on page 21.
