Maternal mortality, human rights and accountability / / edited by Paul Hunt and Tony Gray

• Pubblicazione: Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.1982
• Soggetto topico: Maternal health services; Human rights; Mothers - Mortality; Liability (Law)
• Altri autori: GrayTony J HuntPaul
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; PART I Conference Presentations; 1 Maternal mortality: an overview; 2 Citizen monitoring to promote the right to healthcare and accountability; 3 The role of indicators and benchmarks in reducing maternal mortality: the case of emergency obstetric care indicators; 4 What are maternal death audits? A Sri Lankan case study; 5 The role of national and international courts: human rights litigation as a strategy to hold states accountable for maternal deaths ; 6 The role of national human rights institutions in monitoring human rights: a case study of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights7 A human rights-based approach to maternal mortality in the United States; 8 Enhancing international accountability for maternal mortality and morbidity: the work of civil society at the United Nations Human Rights Council; 9 Postscript: towards ending preventable maternal deaths; PART II Additional Resource Material on Maternal Mortality, Human Rights and Accountability, using extracts from key documents ; 10 Human rights, constructive accountability and maternal mortality in the Dominican Republic: a commentary11 Accountability and the right to the highest attainable standard of health; 12 Toward transformative accountability: applying a rights-based approach to fulfill maternal health obligations; 13 Human Rights Council Resolution 11/8: preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights (2009); 14 Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights (2010) ; 15 Concise technical guidance on the application of a human rights-based approach to the implementation of policies and programs to reduce preventable maternal morbidity and mortality16 Global strategy for women's and children's health; 17 A review of global accountability mechanisms for women's and children's health; 18 Working Group on Accountability for Results: final paper; 19 Keeping promises, measuring results; 20 Realising sexual and reproductive health rights in Kenya: myth or reality? Report of the public inquiry into violations of sexual and reproductive health rights in Kenya ; 21 The role of litigation in ensuring women's reproductive rights: an analysis of the Shanti Devi judgment in India22 Human rights accountability for maternal death and failure to provide safe, legal abortion: the significance of two groundbreaking CEDAW decisions; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 context includes the UN Human Rights Council maternal mortality and morbidity resolutions, as well as Millennium Development Goal 5. It comes out of a roundtable conference held in Geneva during 2010 that examined maternal mortality, human rights and accountability and provided a forum where maternal healt
• Titolo autorizzato: Maternal mortality, human rights and accountability
• ISBN: 1-135-92608-5; 1-135-92601-8; 0-203-68421-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787581103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II