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Maternal Mortality and Human Rights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Laura Katzive
Laura Katzive*
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Wellspring Advisors
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Family, Sex, and Reproduction: Emerging Issues in International Law
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 104 , 2010 , pp. 383 - 385
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2010

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References

1 World Health Organization, Maternal Mortality in 2005, at 1 (2008). On April 12, 2010, The Lancet published a study finding that 342, 900 women had died of pregnancy-related causes in 2008. Hogan, Margaret C. et al., Maternal Mortality for 181 Countries, 1980-2008: A Systematic Analysis of Progress Towards Millennium Development Goal 5, 375 Lancet 1609 (2010)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Who will be releasing revised estimates in June 2010, which are also expected to show a reduction in the number of maternal deaths worldwide.

2 WHO, supra note 1.

3 Yamin, Alicia Ely, Beyond Compassion: The Central Role of Accountability in Applying a Human Rights Framework to Health, 10 Health & Hum. Rts. 1, 9 (2008)Google Scholar (citing Lynn Freedman et al., UN Millennium Project Task Force on Child Health and Maternal Health, Who’s Got the Power? Transforming Health Systems for Women and Children 49-94 (2005).

4 Guttmacher Institute, in Brief: Facts About Induced Abortion (2007).

5 See Yamin, supra note 3, at 9.

6 UN Millennium Project, MDGs: What they Are (2006), available at http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/goals/index.htm (click on Goal 5).

7 See Center for Reproductive Rights, Bringing Rights to Bear: Preventing Maternal Mortality and Ensuring Safe Pregnancy (2008).

8 UN Hum. Rts. Comm., Concluding Observations: Mali, 77th Sess., UN Doc. No. CCPR/CO/77/MLI, para. 14 (2003), available at http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(SymboiyCCPR.C0.77.MLI.En?Opendocument.

9 United Nations, Hum. Rts. Council, Resolution 11/8 on Preventable Maternal Mortality and Morbidity and Human Rights, 11th Sess., UN Doc. No. A/HRC/ll/L.16/Rev. 1, para. 2 (June 16, 2009).

10 United Nations, Econ. & Soc. Council, Commission on the Status of Women, Resolution on Eliminating Preventable Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Through the Empowerment of Women, 45th Sess., Doc. No. E/CN.6/2010/L.6, preamble (Mar. 12, 2010).

11 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights art. 2, Dec. 16, 1966, 999 UNTS 3. See also International Initiative on Maternal Mortality and Human Rights, No More Needless Deaths: A Call to Action on Human Rights and Maternal Mortality 9 (2009).

12 See Yamin, supra note 3, at 8-13.

13 Judith Bueno De Mesquita & Paul Hunt, International Assistance and Cooperation in Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Human Rights Responsibility for Donors 1-3 (2008).

14 Center for Reproductive Rights, Claiming Our Rights: Surviving Pregnancy and Childbirth in Mali (2003).

15 Center for Reproductive Rights, Broken Promises: Human Rights, Accountability, and Maternal Death in Nigeria (2008).

16 Physicians for Human Rights, Deadly Delays: Maternal Mortality in Peru: A Rights-BASED Ap Proach to Safe Motherhood (2007).

17 Human Rights Watch, No Tally of the Anguish: Accountability in Maternal Health Care in India (2009).

18 Amnesty International USA, Deadly Delivery: the Maternal Health Care Crisis in the USA (2010).

19 Center for Reproductive Rights, Case Summary: Alyne da Silva Pimentel v. Brazil (Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women), available at http://reproductiverights.org/en/case/alyne-da-silva-pimentel-v-brazil-committee-on-the-elimination-of-discrimination-against-women.