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Informationen zum Autor Paul Hunt is a Law Professor at Essex University (UK), Adjunct Professor at Waikato University (New Zealand), and human rights advisor to WHO Assistant Director-General Dr.Flavia Bustreo. He served as UN Special Rapporteur on the right to the highest attainable standard of health (2002-2008) and has an Honorary Doctorate from the Nordic School of Public Health. Tony Gray completed his DPhil in Theology and has publishhed in the area of philosophical theology. After working in the production of personal biographies, he now runs his own publishing services company whilst undertaking freelance research in topics as diverse as family history, religion and human rights. Klappentext The scale of maternal mortality and morbidity today is staggering. This book focuses on a vital part of a human rights response to maternal mortality, viz. accountability. Accountability encompasses monitoring, review and redress at the local, national and international levels. The book's context includes the UN Human Rights Council maternal mortality and morbidity resolutions, as well as Millennium Development Goal 5. It comes out of a roundtable conference held in Geneva during 2010 that examined maternal mortality, human rights and accountability and provided a forum where maternal health and human rights experts could listen to, and learn from, each other. As well as revised and updated conference papers, this volume includes a rich collection of additional resource material on maternal mortality, human rights and accountability. Zusammenfassung The scale of maternal mortality and morbidity today is staggering. This book focuses on a vital part of a human rights response to maternal mortality! viz. accountability. Accountability encompasses monitoring! review and redress at the local! national and international levels. The book's context includes the UN Human Rights Council maternal mortality and morbidity resolutions! as well as Millennium Development Goal 5. It comes out of a roundtable conference held in Geneva during 2010 that examined maternal mortality! human rights and accountability and provided a forum where maternal health and human rights experts could listen to! and learn from! each other. As well as revised and updated conference papers! this volume includes a rich collection of additional resource material on maternal mortality! human rights and accountability. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prelims Foreword, Navanethem Pillay Preface, Clemens Nathan Part 1: 1. Maternal Mortality: An Overview, Francisco Songane 2. Citizen Monitoring to Promote the Right to Health Care and Accountability, Dr. Ariel Frisancho Arroyo 3. The Role of Indicators and Benchmarks in Reducing Maternal Mortality: the Case of the Emergency Obstetric Care Indicators, Samantha Lobis 4. What Are Maternal Death Audits? A Sri Lankan Case Study, Dr. Hiranthi Wijemanne 5. The Role of National and International Courts: Human Rights Litigation as a Strategy to Hold States Accountable for Maternal Deaths, Ximena Andion Ibañez 6. The Role of National Human Rights Institutions in Monitoring Human Rights: A Case Study of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, Commissioner Winfred Lichuma 7. A Human Rights Based Approach to Maternal Mortality in the United States, Nan Strauss and Rachel Ward 8. Enhancing International Accountability for Maternal Mortality and Morbidity: The Work of Civil Society at the United Nations Human Rights Council, Sandeep Prasad 9. Postscript: Towards Ending Preventable Maternal Deaths, Dr. Flavia Bustreo 10. Human Rights, Constructive Accountability and Maternal Mortality in the Dominican Republic: A Commentary (2003), L. P. Freedman 11. Accountability and the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health (2008), Helen Potts 12. Towards Transformative ...
