Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights (2016), para. 25
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- 1. Urges all States to renew their political commitment to eliminate preventable maternal mortality and morbidity at the local, national, regional and international levels, and to strengthen their efforts to address multiple and intersecting inequalities and to remove all barriers to access to sexual and reproductive health facilities, services, goods and information, and education, to ensure the full and effective implementation of their human rights obligations, and 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 the outcome documents of the review processes, including the commitments relating to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, considering the Goals on improving maternal health and promoting gender equality and empowering women, and other interlinked Goals, by ensuring universal access to quality maternity, sexual and reproductive health-care services, including through international assistance and cooperation, the allocation of domestic resources to health systems and the provision of the necessary information and 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;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 25
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