Preventable Maternal Mortality and Morbidity and Human Rights

A/HRC/RES/27/11View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2014.

What other versions does this mandate have?

8 versions · 2009–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/60/18

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/HRC/RES/60/18	Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights	4,625	40%Compare
2023	A/HRC/RES/54/16	Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights	4,209	63%Compare
2021	A/HRC/RES/47/25	Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights	3,072	25%Compare
2016	A/HRC/RES/33/18	Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights	2,072	33%Compare
2014	A/HRC/RES/27/11	Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights	971	55%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

11 subjects

Gender Discrimination Guidelines Human Rights Information Dissemination International Obligations Maternal Mortality Morbidity Report Preparation Reproductive Health Technical Cooperation Women's Health

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Urges all States to renew their political commitment to eliminate preventable maternal mortality and morbidity at the local, national, regional and international levels due to primary and secondary causes, and to strengthen their efforts to ensure the full and effective implementation of their human rights obligations, as well as their commitments as addressed in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and its review processes, including the commitments relating to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals, in particular the goals on improving maternal health and promoting gender equality and empowering women, including through the allocation of necessary domestic resources to health systems and the provision of the necessary information and health-care services in relation to the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including the sexual and reproductive health of women and girls;

Requests States and other relevant actors to give renewed emphasis to maternal mortality and morbidity initiatives in their development partnerships and cooperation arrangements, including by honouring existing commitments and considering new ones, and the exchange of effective practices and technical assistance to strengthen national capacities, and to integrate a human rights-based perspective into such initiatives, addressing the impact that discrimination against women has on maternal mortality and morbidity;

Urges States and other relevant stakeholders, including national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations, to take action at all levels, utilizing a comprehensive human rights-based approach, to address the interlinked root causes of maternal mortality and morbidity, such as gender inequalities, all forms of discrimination and violence against women, early childbearing, early marriage, poverty, malnutrition, harmful practices, lack of accessible and appropriate health-care services for all, information and education, and to pay particular attention to eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls, especially adolescent girls;

Takes note with interest of the report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the application of the technical guidance on the application of a human rights-based approach to the implementation of policies and programmes to reduce preventable maternal mortality and morbidity,³ and calls upon States and encourages stakeholders to consider the recommendations contained therein;

³A/HRC/27/20.

Calls upon all relevant actors, including Governments, regional organizations, relevant United Nations agencies, national human rights institutions and civil society organizations to continue to disseminate the technical guidance and to apply it, as appropriate, when designing, implementing and reviewing policies and evaluating programmes to reduce preventable maternal mortality and morbidity;

Calls upon all relevant United Nations agencies, programmes and funds, within their respective mandates, to provide technical cooperation and assistance to States, upon their request, to support the implementation of the technical guidance;

Encourages the High Commissioner to promote enhanced awareness and utilization of the technical guidance, to bring the technical guidance to the attention of the Secretary-General and all United Nations entities with mandates relevant to maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights, and to continue dialogue on the issue of preventable maternal mortality and morbidity with all relevant actors in order to accelerate the realization of the rights of women and girls and the achievement of Millennium Development Goal 5 by 2015;

Requests the High Commissioner to prepare, from within existing resources, in consultation with States, United Nations agencies and all other relevant stakeholders, a follow-up report on how the technical guidance has been applied by States and other relevant actors, to be presented to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-third session;

Decides to remain seized of the matter.

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