5.
Encourages States and other relevant stakeholders, including national human rights
institutions and non-governmental organizations, to give increased attention and resources to
preventable maternal mortality and morbidity in their engagement with the United Nations
human rights system, including with the human rights treaty bodies, the universal periodic
review and special procedures;
6.
Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to
prepare a thematic study on preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights, in
consultation with States, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Population Fund,
the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Bank and all other relevant stakeholders, and
requests that the study include identification of the human rights dimensions of preventable
maternal mortality and morbidity in the existing international legal framework; an overview of
initiatives and activities within the United Nations system to address all causes of preventable
maternal mortality and morbidity; identification of how the Council can add value to existing
initiatives through a human rights analysis, including efforts to achieve the Millennium
Development Goal on improving maternal health,3 and recommended options for better
addressing the human rights dimension of preventable maternal mortality and morbidity
throughout the United Nations system;
7.
Decides to address the thematic study requested in paragraph 6 above within the
programme of work of its fourteenth session, and to consider taking further possible action on
preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights at that session, and invites the
Office of the High Commissioner, the World Health Organization, the United Nations
Population Fund and the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the
highest attainable standard of physical and mental health to participate in an interactive dialogue
on the study in the Council.
27th meeting
17 June 2009
[Adopted without a vote.]
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Millennium Development Goal 5.
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