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National Alliance For Maternal Health And Human Rights (NAMHHR)

Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal May-Sep 2010 WORK DONE SO FAR
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Issue 2 UPCOMING EVENTS

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A Public Dialogue on the Report of the Mission to India of UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health was held on 13th August in New Delhi. Please read more For Civil Society Recommendations from the Public Dialogue on the Report of the Mission to India of UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health. Please read more The Second Meeting of the NAMHHR with Advisors and Associates was held on 12th August in New Delhi during which a future strategic plan for the next three years for the functioning of the alliance was made. A meeting with the Planning Commission on the Report of the Mission to India of UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health was held on 23rd August in which recommendations that came up at the Public Dialogue were presented. Please read more State level meetings for the launch of the National Alliance and the Campaign on the Implementation of the National Maternity Benefit Scheme conducted in six partner states. The Human Rights Law Network in collaboration with NAMHHR and other networks and organizations organized a

NMBS Campaign: District Level RTIs to be filed; surveys and public hearings to be conducted- these being conditional on the responses to the RTIs State Level Meeting for Launch of the alliance and the NMBS Campaign to be held in West Bengal on 29th September Advocacy work with Parliamentarians for Implementation of the UN SR-RH report to be taken up Conference Call Meeting of Steering Committee Members of the Alliance to be held in October

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National Consultation on 'Legal Interventions to Strengthen Accountability for Maternal Health and Reproductive Rights' on 26-27th June in Goa. Please read more PARTNER UPDATES
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Health Watch Forum, Uttar Pradesh conducted a sharing of their study on IPHS monitoring on 28th May 2010 in Lucknow Prayas, Rajasthan as part of the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan has worked on the Costs of treatment and Generic Drugs Campaign; the National Consultation for which was held in May. Healthwatch Forum UP along with other organizations and networks formed the 'Swasthya Sewa Nijikaran Virodhi Manch' (SSNVM) to launch a public campaign to protest against the decision of the Uttar Pradesh government to privatize the public health system in order to improve health care services in the state. Jan Sahas, Madhya Pradesh has working on a Campaign on Manual Scavenging and Dalit Rights in the state. Jharkhand Women's Health Network will now be a partner of the National Alliance

RESOURCES ON MATERNAL HEALTH Web:

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Books and Reports: Developing a Human Rights-Based Approach to Addressing Maternal Mortality Desk Review by The DFID Health Resource Centre (HRC). http://hurilink.org/tools/ Developing_aHRBA_to_Maternal_Mortality-DFID.pdf The complete report for DLHS 3 (2007-2008), including detailed state and district-level data and disaggregated information is available on the IIPS website - http://www.rchiips.org/pdf/ INDIA_REPORT_DLHS-3.pdf CAG report on NRHM can be downloaded from: http://www.cag.gov.in/html/reports/ civil/2009_8_PA/contents.htm An article titled 'Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5' was published in The Lancet in May
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Safe Motherhood, Public Provisioning and Health Financing in India- A report released by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability IIM, Ahmedabad has published a book titled 'Midwifery and Maternal Health in India: Situational Analysis and Lessons from the Field'; edited by Leela Visaria. Application of Sociocultural Approaches to accelerate the achievement of MDGs 4 and 5: Report of a Bi-regional consultation held in Tanah Lot, Bali, Indonesia from 11-13 August 2009; published by WHO (Regional Office for South East Asia) A Consultation and Dissemination

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2010 was largely critiqued: http://www. thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS01406736(10)60518-1/fulltext Save the Children published its eleventh annual State of the World's Mothers report in May this year: http://www.savethechildren.org/ publications/state-of-the-worlds-mothers-report/ The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the WHO have issued an information sheet on a Human RightsBased Approach to Health (HRBA). It can be downloaded from the website: http://www.who. int/hhr/news/en/ Human Rights Law Network: The recent Delhi High Court Order which ordered compensation for violation of constitutional and reproductive rights of two impoverished women- http://www. hrln.org/hrln/reproductive-rights/pils-acases/681-final-judgement-on-laxmi-mandaland-jaituin-case.html

Workshop on 'Thinking through Rights Based Development in Health: Institutional Approaches to Social Inequality and Gender Violence in Reproductive, Maternal and Sexual Health' was conducted by the Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur in April. The report is now available.

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