“Maternal Mortality: Implementation and Accountability: Guidance on Using a Human Rights Approach in the Context of the Post 2015 Agenda”

In this event to be held at the UN Human Rights Council, the Center for Reproductive Rights will speak about the  Alyne Case in relation to which the CEDAW Committee has considered Brazil to have infringed the principles of the convention in 2011. Past two years the Brazilian state has not yet responded as required to the recommendations issued by the  Committee in relation to financial and symbolic reparations as well as effective policy measures to reduce maternal mortality levels. Click here to read more about it.

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