WUNRN
INDIA - MATERNAL MORTALITY - 2011
UPDATE REPORT
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08.23.11 - This report is an update to Maternal Mortality in India: Using International and
Constitutional Law to Promote Accountability and Change, published by
the Center for Reproductive Rights (the Center) in 2008. Since its release, Maternal
Mortality in India has been distributed extensively, and has been utilized
in the development of several groundbreaking maternal health cases filed by the
Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) in India.
This update serves two purposes. First, it highlights some of the most
important international legal developments that have taken place toward the
formal recognition of maternal mortality as a human rights issue since the
launch of the original report. It also demonstrates the meaningful impact of
public interest litigation on efforts to address maternal mortality in India.
The Center and HRLN are pleased to present this report to illuminate the recent
progress made in establishing maternal mortality as a human rights issue and to
expose some of the challenges encountered. We hope that our experience will
inspire the use of legal accountability strategies to address this ongoing
crisis in other countries and regions throughout the world