Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 16
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- Deeply concerned that early marriage leads to early pregnancy and early childbearing, which presents a much higher risk of complications during pregnancy and delivery leading to maternal mortality and morbidity, increases the risk of disability, stillbirth and maternal death, exposes young married girls to a greater risk of domestic violence, as well as HIV and sexually transmitted infections, reduces their opportunities to complete their education, gain comprehensive knowledge and participate in the community or develop employable skills, and violates or impairs the full enjoyment of all their human rights, and recognizing with concern that limited access to the highest attainable standard of health, including sexual and reproductive health, causes high levels of obstetric fistula and other maternal morbidities, as well as maternal mortality,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Vote
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- PP
- Reference
- CSW resolution, Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women (2012), PP 16.
- Paragraph info
- PP
- Paragraph number
- 16
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