A Human Rights Response to Maternal Mortality

The Center is stepping up its call for a human rights response to maternal mortality as world leaders gather this week in New York to review the Millennium Development Goals. Reducing maternal mortality rates by three-quarters before 2015 is one of the goals that will be appraised. Tragically, this is an area where states have fallen behind the most. Half a million women worldwide die every year from pregnancy-related complications. Almost all of these deaths could be easily prevented, and the fact that women continue to die shows the failure of governments to protect women’s basic human rights to life, health, equality, and non-discrimination.

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