Maternal mortality as a human rights issue: Measuring compliance with international treaty obligations

Human Rights Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 563-607

  Yamin, Alicia Ely ^a   Maine, Deborah P ^b  

^a School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^b NONE

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Indexed keywords

GENDER RELATIONS; HUMAN RIGHTS; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT; MATERNAL MORTALITY;

EID: 0033403344     PISSN: 02750392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Deborah Maine et al., Risks and Rights: The Uses of Reproductive Health Data, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH MATTERS, Nov. 1995, at 40, 40 (1995), quoting 2 MARTIN LUTHER, The Estate of Marriage, in THE CHRISTIAN IN SOCIETY 46 (Walter 1. Brandt ed., 1962).
2. Deborah Maine et al., Risks and Rights: The Uses of Reproductive Health Data, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH MATTERS, Nov. 1995, at 40, 40 (1995), quoting 2 MARTIN LUTHER, The Estate of Marriage, in THE CHRISTIAN IN SOCIETY 46 (Walter 1. Brandt ed., 1962).
3. See Peter Adamson, A Failure of Imagination, in THE PROGRESS OF NATIONS 3 (1996). For every woman who dies, an estimated thirty more suffer from debilitating infections and painful, often degrading, conditions that can last a lifetime.
4. See id. at 3-4. For a discussion of an upward revision of this estimate, see id., at 8-9.
5. See THE WORLD BANK, supra note 6, at 216, 218.
6. See REVISED 1990 ESTIMATES, supra note 4, at 3.
7. See POPULATION REFERENCE BUREAU, 1998 WORLD POPULATION DATA SHEET (1998).