Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 20
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- Encourages Member States, including donor countries, and the international community to increase their efforts to eliminate preventable maternal mortality and morbidity through effective health interventions and health system strengthening, promotion and protection of the full enjoyment of all human rights by women and girls, including in particular the rights to freely consent to marriage, to decide freely and responsibly the number and spacing of their children and to have the information and means to do so, and the empowerment of women and girls, and to give renewed emphasis to maternal mortality and morbidity initiatives in their development partnerships and cooperation arrangements, by honouring existing commitments and considering new commitments in areas such as humanitarian, emergency and crisis situations and by coordinating to strengthen planning and accountability for greatly accelerated progress on reducing maternal mortality and morbidity;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Vote
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- OP
- Reference
- CSW resolution, Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women (2012), OP 20.
- Paragraph info
- OP
- Paragraph number
- 20
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