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Maternal mortality, human rights and accountability /
The scale of maternal mortality and morbidity today is staggering. This book focuses on a vital part of a human rights response to maternal mortality, viz. accountability. Accountability encompasses monitoring, review and redress at the local, national and international levels. The book's conte...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Maternal mortality : an overview / Francisco Songane
- Citizen monitoring to promote the right to health care and accountability / Ariel Frisancho Arroyo
- The role of indicators and benchmarks in reducing maternal mortality : the case of the emergency obstetric care indicators / Samantha Lobis
- What are maternal death audits? : A Sri Lankan case study / Hiranthi Wijemanne
- The role of national and international courts : human rights litigation as a strategy to hold states accountable for maternal deaths / Ximena Andion Ibañez
- The role of national human rights institutions in monitoring human rights : a case study of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights / Winfred Lichuma
- A human rights based approach to maternal mortality in the United States / Nan Strauss and Rachel Ward
- Enhancing international accountability for maternal mortality and morbidity : the work of civil society at the United Nations Human Rights Council / Sandeep Prasad
- Postscript. Towards ending preventable maternal deaths / Flavia Bustreo
- Human rights, constructive accountability and maternal mortality in the Dominican Republic : a commentary / L.P. Freedman
- Accountability and the right to the highest attainable standard of health / Helen Potts
- Towards transformative accountability : applying a rights-based approach to fulfil maternal health obligations / Alicia Ely Yamin
- Human Rights Council Resolution 11/8 : preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights (2009)
- Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for human rights on preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights (2010)
- Concise technical guidance on the application of a human rights based approach to the implementation of policies and programmes to reduce preventable maternal morbidity and mortality / Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Global strategy for women's and children's health / United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
- A review of global accountability mechanisms for women's and children's health / The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
- Working group on accountability for results : final paper / Commission on Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health
- Keeping promises, measuring results / Commission on Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health
- Realising sexual and reproductive health rights in Kenya : a myth or reality? : Report of the public inquiry into violations of sexual and reproductive health rights in Kenya / Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
- The role of litigation in ensuring women's reproductive rights : an analysis of the Shanti Devi judgement in India / Jameen Kaur
- Human rights accountability for maternal death and failure to provide safe legal abortion : the significance of two ground-breaking CEDAW decisions / Eszter Kismödi [and others].