E/2010/27 E/CN.6/2010/11 “2. Urges global and national leaders to generate the political will, increased resources, commitment, cooperation and technical assistance urgently required to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, to improve maternal health and to achieve Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 by 2015; “3. Calls upon States to fully and effectively implement the Beijing Platform for Action, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the outcomes of their review conferences, including the commitments relating to sexual and reproductive health, and the promotion and protection of all human rights in this context; and to maximize their efforts to eliminate preventable maternal mortality and morbidity by strengthening comprehensive health services to women and girls, in particular adolescents, including access to sexual and reproductive health-care services as agreed to in the Beijing Platform for Action; “4. Further calls upon States to reverse gender inequalities and violations of women’s rights, including discrimination against women and girls, harmful traditional practices such as early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation, as well as poverty, that contribute to the unacceptably high and persistent global rate of maternal mortality and morbidity, bearing in mind the impact of multiple forms of discrimination; to guarantee to all women access to the highest attainable standard of health; and to ensure women’s full participation in decision-making at local, national and international levels regarding health care; “5. Urges Member States to strengthen health systems to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, by seeking improvement in areas recognized in the World Health Organization Framework for Action, including service delivery; health workforce; information; medical products, vaccines and technologies; financing; and leadership and governance, using a gender perspective for women and girls; “6. Acknowledges the critical role and shared responsibilities of men and boys in reducing maternal mortality and morbidity and promoting the health of women and girls, and urges Member States, the United Nations, and civil society to include in their development-priorities programmes that support the critical role of men in making pregnancy and childbirth safe, contributing to family planning, preventing sexually transmitted infections and HIV, and ending violence against women and girls; “7. 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 women’s human rights 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 coordinating at the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals in September 2010 to strengthen planning and accountability for greatly accelerated progress on reducing maternal mortality and morbidity; 10-30576 79