On 17 June, 2009, the the Human Rights Council at its eleventh regular session adopted a landmark resolution on ‘Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights’. In this resolution, governments express grave concern for the unacceptably high rates of maternal mortality and morbidity, acknowledge that this is a human rights issue and commit to enhance their efforts at the national and international level to protect the lives of women and girls worldwide.

• Final Draft of the Resolution

•  Press Release from the NGOs