Maternal Mortality, Human Rights and Accountability [Paperback]

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 health and human rights experts could listen to, and learn from, each other. As well as revised and updated conference papers, this volume includes a rich collection of additional resource material on maternal mortality, human rights and accountability.

Prelims Foreword, Navanethem Pillay Preface, Clemens NathanPart 1: 1. Maternal Mortality: An Overview, Francisco Songane2. Citizen Monitoring to Promote the Right to Health Care and Accountability, Dr. Ariel Frisancho Arroyo3. The Role of Indicators and Benchmarks in Reducing Maternal Mortality: the Case of the Emergency Obstetric Care Indicators, Samantha Lobis4. What Are Maternal Death Audits? A Sri Lankan Case Study, Dr. HiranthiWijemanne5. The Role of National and International Courts: Human Rights Litigation as a Strategy to Hold States Accountable for Maternal Deaths, Ximena Andion Iba?ez 6. The Role of National Human Rights Institutions in Monitoring Human Rights: A Case Study of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, Commissioner Winfred Lichuma 7. A Human Rights Based Approach to Maternal Mortality in the United States, Nan Strauss and Rachel Ward8. Enhancing International Accountability for Maternal Mortality and Morbidity: The Work of Civil Society at the UnitlCt