Operationalizing a Human Rights-Based Approach to Address Mistreatment against Women during Childbirth

• Main Authors: Christina Zampas (Author), Avni Amin (Author), Lucinda O'Hanlon (Author), Alisha Bjerregaard (Author), Hedieh Mehrtash (Author), Rajat Khosla (Author), ӧzge Tunçalp (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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A growing body of evidence reveals that the mistreatment of pregnant women during facility-based childbirth is occurring across the globe. As human rights bodies have increasingly recognized, numerous human rights are implicated in the context of mistreatment of women in childbirth, including the ri...