E/2010/27 E/CN.6/2010/11 Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 103. At the 18th meeting, on 11 March, the representative of the United States of America, on behalf of Belarus, Benin, Colombia, Ghana, Indonesia, Israel, Kenya, Panama, Rwanda, Thailand, the United Republic of Tanzania, the United States of America and Zambia, introduced a draft resolution entitled “Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women” (E/CN.6/2010/L.6). Subsequently, Cameroon, Gabon, India and the Seychelles joined in sponsoring the draft resolution, which read: “The Commission on the Status of Women, “Reaffirming the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the outcomes of their review conferences and commitments regarding the reduction of maternal, newborn and child mortality and universal access to reproductive health, including those contained in the 2000 Millennium Declaration and the 2005 World Summit Outcome, and recalling other relevant United Nations resolutions, “Reaffirming also the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, in particular Millennium Development Goal 5 on improving maternal health, including the targets to reduce by three quarters between 1990 and 2015 the maternal mortality ratio and to achieve by 2015 universal access to reproductive health, Millennium Development Goal 4 on reducing child mortality, Millennium Development Goal 3 on promoting gender equality and empowerment of women, and Millennium Development Goal 6 on combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, and noting with concern that Millennium Development Goal 5 is the least likely of all the Millennium Development Goals to be achieved based on current data, “Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the obligations of States parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, “Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 11/8 of 17 June 2009 on preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights, and Commission on Population and Development resolution 2009/1 of 3 April 2009 on the contribution of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development to the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, “Recalling the ministerial declaration of the 2009 high-level Segment of the Economic and Social Council, entitled “Implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to global public health”, 76 10-30576