UN Human Rights Committees advance reproductive rights |
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| Authors: | Rebecca J. Cook |
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| Affiliation: | 1. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3550 Terrace Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA;2. Center for Research on Health Care Data Center, University of Pittsburgh, 200 Meyran Ave, Suite 300, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA;3. Center for Research on Health Care, University of Pittsburgh, 230 McKee Place, Suite 600, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA;4. Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, VA Pittsburgh Health Care System, University Drive (151C), Pittsburgh, PA, 15240, USA;5. Center for Women''s Health Research and Innovation, University of Pittsburgh, 230 McKee Place, Suite 600, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA |
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| Abstract: | The significance of working with human rights covenants to advance reproductive health and self-determination has gained momentum through the work of: i) the Human Rights Committee, which monitors compliance of States with-their obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and ii) the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which was established to monitor States' compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. In 1996, in its ‘Concluding Observations’ on the third report of the Government of Peru, the Human Rights Committee recommended that Peru ensure that women do not risk their life because of the existence of restrictive legal provisions on abortion. CEDAW, in a meeting in January 1997, addressed law policy related to reproductive rights in Morocco, Venezuela, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Turkey and the Philippines, not only in relation to laws that make abortion dangerous but also maternal mortality more broadly, contraception and access to reproductive and sexual health services. |
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