The roundtable focused on one critically important and often neglected component of a human rights-based approach to maternal mortality: accountability.
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.
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.
"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."
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.
This booklet outlines five reasons why ensuring women’s human rights is essential to eliminating preventable maternal death and injury.