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4.
Also requests States to give renewed emphasis to maternal mortality and
morbidity initiatives in their development partnerships and cooperation arrangements,
including by honouring existing commitments and considering new commitments, and the
exchange of effective practices and technical assistance to strengthen national capacities, as
well as to integrate a human rights perspective into such initiatives, addressing the impact
that discrimination against women has on maternal mortality and morbidity;
5.
Encourages States and other relevant stakeholders, including national human
rights institutions and non-governmental organizations, to give increased attention and
resources to preventable maternal mortality and morbidity in their engagement with the
United Nations human rights system, including with the human rights treaty bodies, the
universal periodic review and special procedures;
6.
Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights to prepare a thematic study on preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and
human rights, in consultation with States, the World Health Organization, the United
Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Bank and all
other relevant stakeholders, and requests that the study include identification of the human
rights dimensions of preventable maternal mortality and morbidity in the existing
international legal framework; an overview of initiatives and activities within the United
Nations system to address all causes of preventable maternal mortality and morbidity;
identification of how the Council can add value to existing initiatives through a human
rights analysis, including efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goal on
improving maternal health,3 and recommended options for better addressing the human
rights dimension of preventable maternal mortality and morbidity throughout the United
Nations system;
7.
Decides to address the thematic study requested in paragraph 6 above within
the programme of work of its fourteenth session, and to consider taking further possible
action on preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights at that session,
and invites the Office of the High Commissioner, the World Health Organization, the
United Nations Population Fund and the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the
enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health to participate in
an interactive dialogue on the study in the Council.
27th meeting
17 June 2009
[Adopted without a vote. See part II, chap. III.]
11/9.
The human rights of migrants in detention centres
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling previous resolutions of the General Assembly, the Commission on Human
Rights and the Council on the protection of the human rights of migrants and the work of
various special mechanisms of the Council that have reported on the situation of human
rights and fundamental freedoms of migrants, particularly those held in detention centres,
Aware of the report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
(A/HRC/11/7), which focuses on the protection of children in the context of migration,
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