Human Rights in Childbirth India Conference 2017
The event and content is being produced by the collaboration of the organisations HRiC and Birth India, as well as other passionate collaborators. We are joyfully working together to put on a conference in Mumbai, India in February 2017 that will address how maternity care can optimise maternal and infant health outcomes in a respectful, culturally-sensitive, human rights framework.
HRIC India Conference Program
Women have a right to survive childbirth, but it is not their only human right.
The Human Rights in Childbirth Global Conference in India will be held at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai from 2-5 February to 2017.
The event addresses how maternity care can optimize maternal and infant health outcomes in a respectful, culturally sensitive, human rights framework.
Maternity care with human rights: informed consent and refusal
The right to informed consent and refusal is a human right. And importantly, it is a human right in childbirth.
What is the Right to Informed Consent and Refusal?
The right to informed consent and refusal is a fundamental healthcare right. It is grounded in the right of every human being to autonomy and authority over their own body. Every human being has the right to control when and how other people may touch their body.
Why HRIC is coming to India
Bashi Kumar Hazard
The recognition of preventable maternal mortality as a human rights issue was a huge step forward for women’s health and rights. But when maternal healthcare only recognizes the right to survive childbirth, the violation of women’s other human rights is rendered invisible, with immediate and long term implications for mothers, babies and communities. In India, while small improvements have been reported in survival rates, questions arise as to their enduring effect, given the continuing, and in some cases, exacerbated violation of other human rights.
Strasbourg Summit Program
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HRIC Gets to Know Birth India & So Can You
This year, Human Rights in Childbirth has partnered with Birth India to bring the conference and the conversation to India in February 2017.
Birth India is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation registered in 2011 to support families and the community in seeking and selecting skilled, respectful care providers for women during their birthing year.
Standing on our Ancestress’ Shoulders – opening the HRIC US Summit
On May 26, 2016, Human Rights in Childbirth held the second HRiC US Summit in Los Angeles, California. Activists and legal advocates from the nation’s leading reproductive justice and maternal health consumer advocacy groups convened for one day to share stories and information about the human rights concerns facing their communities as well as their strategies for solving those problems. The Summit worked through the day to develop the draft for a Consensus Statement on the human rights of birthing people in US maternity care, focusing on calls to action for ensuring that every pregnant person’s rights are respected and upheld in pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum.
Speaker Biographies
Human Rights in Childbirth United States Summit 2016 Speaker Biographies…
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The Persecution of Midwives as a Human Rights Issue
The Human Rights in Childbirth European Summit was a joint collaboration between Human Rights in Childbirth and Midwifery Today.
On April 2, 2013, legal professionals, activists, midwives and other healthcare providers came together with maternity care consumers to discuss the legal treatment of midwives as a human rights issue. The intention for the meeting was to gain clarity on the legal treatment of Out-Of-Hospital (OOH) midwives and doctors across the United States, and to gather some of the people actively working to promote women’s human rights in childbirth. The focus was centered on collaborative fact finding and brainstorming, rather than the determination of solutions.
Opening Remarks at Hague Conference
Welcome, Everybody! I am Hermine Hayes-Klein. I am the director of the Bynkershoek Research Center for Reproductive Rights, here in The Hague.
You have come from around the world to The Hague, the world capital of peace, justice, and law. You have come to learn, to share, and to work together to figure out the role of law and human rights in the most fundamental of human experiences: birth.
Hague Conference – Conference Experiences
The Human Rights in Childbirth Inagural Conference in the Hague brought together stakeholders from throughout maternity care for the first time. Some participants provided their impressions from the conference below.
Maria Andreoulaki, doula and doula trainer, Greece
Attending the Conference was a blessing for me. I am very grateful to European Network of Childbirth Associations (ENCA) for sponsoring my trip. The subjects discussed were exactly the ones that have troubled me for the last 16 years, when I first became a mother, and I was so thrilled to meet other people that had similar concerns and ideas and to see it all organized in such an official setting!
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