A/HRC/RES/27/11 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 3 October 2014 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-seventh session Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council 27/11 Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights The Human Rights Council, Recalling its resolutions 11/8 of 17 June 2009, 15/17 of 30 September 2010, 18/2 of 28 September 2011 and 21/6 of 27 September 2012 on preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights, Reaffirming the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and its review conferences, including the outcome document of the 15-year review of the Programme of Action contained in Commission on Population and Development resolution 2009/1 of 3 April 2009, Commission on the Status of Women resolutions 54/5 of 12 March 2010 and 56/3 of 9 March 2012, and all relevant agreed conclusions of the sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women, World Health Assembly resolution 67.15 of 24 May 2014, the targets and commitments regarding the reduction of maternal mortality and universal access to reproductive health, including those contained in the 2000 Millennium Declaration, the 2005 World Summit Outcome 1 and the outcome document of the highlevel plenary meeting of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, and Commission on Population and Development resolution 2012/1 of 27 April 2012, Deeply concerned that, despite the impressive reductions in maternal mortality rates achieved since 1990, in 2013 there were an estimated 289,000 maternal deaths of women and girls, which are largely preventable, and that millions more women and girls suffer serious and sometimes lifelong injuries, which have severe consequences for their enjoyment of their human rights and their overall well-being, 1 General Assembly resolution 60/1. GE.14-17865 (E) 