Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights 2016, para. 8
Paragraph
Original document
Document type
Resolution
Paragraph text
Calls upon States to assess accountability mechanisms, where they exist, in relation to maternal mortality and morbidity, including the monitoring of inequities, while ensuring access to justice for women and girls, and to build accountability into interventions and strategies, to monitor the functioning and effectiveness of those mechanisms and processes and to take remedial action to ensure they are responsive to human rights;
Document legal status
Negotiated soft law
Document body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Governance & Rule of Law
Health
Person(s) affected
Girls
Women
Document year
2016
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
HRC resolution, Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights (2016), A/HRC/RES/33/18, OP 8.