In conjunction with the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and the Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning, ACPD has released a paper calling for the UN Human Rights Council to take further concrete action to address maternal mortality and morbidity from a human rights perspective. The paper lays out options for the Council to ensure that its treatment of maternal mortality and morbidity is systematic, regular, appropriate and effective. Click here to read the entire paper. [Factsheet – below]

This document was prepared as a contribution to a study currently underway by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, which will explore the intersections of human rights and maternal mortality and morbidity and give recommendations for how the UN can better address the issue.

In a resolution of this past June entitled “Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights”, governments for the first time recognized maternal mortality and morbidity as a human rights issue. This study is one of the immediate follow-up activities requested by the UN Human Rights Council, the body that adopted this resolution.

For more information on ACPD’s work on this groundbreaking and its follow-up, click here.

Read also a fact sheet prepared by the International Initiative on Maternal Mortality and Human Rights (IIMMHR), a partner of ACPD’s in work on maternal mortality at the Human Rights Council. [Factsheet – below and also at http://righttomaternalhealth.org/resource/hrc-fact-sheet ]