Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula 2016, para. 2
Paragraph
Paragraph text
Recognizes the interlinkages between poverty, lack of or inadequate access to health-care services, early childbearing and child, early and forced marriage as root causes of obstetric fistula, that poverty and inequality, including gender inequality, remain the main social risk factors and that the eradication of poverty is critical to meeting the needs and rights of women and girls, and calls upon States, in collaboration with the international community, to take accelerated action to address the situation;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Gender
Health
Poverty
Person(s) affected
Children
Girls
Women
Year
2016
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
UNGA resolution, Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2016), A/RES/71/169, OP 2.