New Respectful Maternity Campaign Launched
January 2012 marks the start of the backing and promotion of a new campaign ‘Respectful Maternity Care: The Universal Rights of Childbearing Women’ by the White Ribbon Alliance whose aim is to raise awareness of women’s right to access respectful and appropriate care during pregnancy and childbirth.
The campaign states:
"In every country and community worldwide, pregnancy and childbirth are momentous events in the lives of women and families and represent a time of intense vulnerability. The concept of “safe motherhood” is usually restricted to physical safety, but childbearing is also an important rite of passage, with deep personal and cultural significance for a woman and her family.
Because motherhood is specific to women, issues of gender equity and gender violence are also at the core of maternity care. Thus, the notion of safe motherhood must be expanded beyond the prevention of morbidity or mortality to encompass respect for women’s basic human rights, including respect for women’s autonomy, dignity, feelings, choices, and preferences, including choice of companionship wherever possible.
A PDF version of the document outlining the full points of the campaign can be downloaded here.
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