Countries: Mauritania
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"[W]omen and girls, particularly in rural areas, lack access to adequate health care services, especially with respect to prenatal and postnatal care and family planning" (4).

Countries: Venezuela
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"Staff training is part of the current Concerted Strategy for the Reduction of Maternal and Neonatal Mortality, using the life course approach: health of women, children and adolescents. In particular, improvements have been made in the training of teams working in delivery rooms for low-risk pregnancies. In addition, between 2016 and 2019, 25,473 health workers were trained in subjects such as: obstetric emergencies, normal delivery, resuscitation, prenatal monitoring, contraception updates, clinical management of sexual violence, prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, syndromic diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, and diagnosis and management of HIV in pregnant women. In addition, workshops were held, between 2018 and 2019 on topics such as:...more

Countries: United States
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"More than a third of US counties do not have a single medical birthing facility or the services of an obstetric clinician, causing health advocates to warn about the dangers of 'maternity care deserts', a new report says. The report, issued by March of Dimes, an infant health non-profit, and published on Tuesday, found that 35.1% of US counties are what the group calls maternity care deserts, meaning there are no specialist medical services available to provide care. These 1,104 counties are home to more than 2.3 million women of reproductive age, the report states, and in these counties in 2022, women gave birth to more than 150,000 babies" (par....more

Countries: Niger
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1, CRPLB-PRACTICE-1, MMR-PRACTICE-1

"Numerous measures have been taken to improve maternal and reproductive health, such as the creation of healthcare centres, free access to certain products necessary for maternal and child health, and free healthcare for children aged 0 to 5 years. However, the rates of infant and maternal mortality remain high because the increase in services is not proportionate to the high population demography and some villages are still far removed from health centres. A lot of men still refuse to allow their wives to access antenatal consultations and the lack of financial means results in many women, even nowadays, giving birth at home without ever going to a health centre" (1-2).more

Countries: Morocco
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"The Committee welcomes the decrease in infant and maternal mortality rates between 2010 and 2017. It also notes with appreciation the increase in mobile medical units to serve populations in remote areas and the national campaigns to motivate pregnant women to use health services to monitor pregnancy and childbirth. Nevertheless, the Committee is concerned that: (a) Access to health care is largely determined by social and geographical context; (b) There is a lack of awareness and education among youth on sexual and reproductive health" (11).

Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"Women in Afghanistan have been banned from training to become midwives in the latest crackdown unveiled by the Taliban. Trainee midwifery students, who have been ordered to no longer attend classes, urged Taliban leaders to allow them to continue studying. A director at leading global charity Human Rights Watch said the measures would lead to women and girls dying due to struggling to receive healthcare during childbirth" (Para 1,2,3)

Countries: Costa Rica
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"The Committee welcomes the progress achieved since the consideration in 2017 of the State party’s seventh periodic report (CEDAW/C/CRI/7) in undertaking legislative reforms, in particular the adoption of the following… (c) Law No. 10081 on women’s rights to skilled, dignified and respectful care during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period, and in relation to newborn care, in 2022" (1-2). "[I]t remains deeply concerned at... (d) The non-incorporation of the childbirth traditions of Indigenous women into obstetric practice in the State party" (9).

Countries: Chile
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"Contrary to Article 12, and in breach of Chilean Law 20,590, the State has failed to provide the necessary medical treatment to the people of Arica, or to create the conditions that would assure accessible services. In particular, there are no toxicology specialists and not enough maternity professionals to treat the victims. There is no monitoring of diseases within the community, and the State has also failed to perform biological sampling on residents to determine levels of chromium, mercury or cadmium" (4).

Countries: United States
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"'Regardless, this is compelling new evidence that abortion bans are preventing tens of thousands of people who want abortions from reaching providers in the formal health care system,' said Caitlin Myers, a professor at Middlebury College who has studied the effects of abortion restrictions before Dobbs and was not involved in the report. The measured declines in legal abortions were about twice as large as she had estimated in her research, based solely on increases in travel distances. 'It’s likely that factors like clinic congestion, stigma and fear are proving just as great an obstacle,' she said." (par. 19-20). "After the Dobbs decision, the clinic hired half a dozen more...more

Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: CL-DATA-1, CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"What emerged is a picture of a system that is increasingly unaffordable to the estimated 61% to 72% of Afghan women who live in poverty, and one in which women often have more children than they want because of lack of access to modern contraception; face risky pregnancies because of lack of care; and undergo procedures that could be done more safely with access to and capacity to use more modern techniques" (para 19).

Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"With regard to the adoption of special measures aimed at implementing the provisions of the Convention relating to the need to provide women with appropriate services during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period, besides the general rules set out in this report with reference to articles 11 and 12 of the Convention, additions have been made to the new Criminal Enforcement Code, which entered into force on 1 January 2019 and provides for special measures to benefit pregnant women (articles 45, 54 and 98)" (11). "Among the sectoral policies, the National Reproductive Health Strategy for the period up to 2015 occupies an important place. Measures taken within the framework of...more

Countries: Tajikistan
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"A national communication programme on the first 1,000 days of a child’s life was adopted for 2020–2024. The programme aims to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals on health and on food security and nutrition), and to reduce all indicators of malnutrition and undernutrition in Tajikistan" (p. 33). "The procedure for providing medical care to women during pregnancy and childbirth and after childbirth in public health care facilities was approved by Government decision No. 545 of 30 December 2021" (p. 33). "Under article 163 of the Health Code, the parents or legal representatives of children born to HIV-infected mothers receive breast-milk substitutes from birth to the time they are given a...more

Countries: Bangladesh
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"There are no dividers in the maternity room shared by more than 20 women, so visiting husbands are ushered out by nurses when someone needs attending to" (para 1). "Sarker is working with more than 5,000 pregnant women in Dacope; she visits them regularly to do check-ups and holds information sessions at the Upazila Health Complex, where women and girls can drop in to discuss any issues they might be experiencing" (para 13).

Countries: Haiti
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"The organisation has had no option but to close the clinic, leaving the 75 pregnant women it had been supporting with nowhere to go for medical care or to have their babies delivered. 'We’ve tried so hard to keep the clinic open but there is not much else we can do now. I can’t ask people to go to work if they might get hit by a bullet,' says Livesay. Armed gangs have terrorised the Caribbean country since its president, Jovenel Moïse, was assassinated in July 2021, but in the past month there have been unprecedented levels of violence" (para 3-5). "When Sanderline went into labour last month, she had...more

Countries: Laos
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"[R]ecent research points to the need for nearly 6,000 trained midwives across the country in the next six years. In 2019, there were just 1,834 in total" (para 2). "Every year, about 200 students graduate from the country’s three internationally-accredited midwifery colleges – the first to receive the distinction in the Asia-Pacific region, with the process supported by UNFPA" (para 10).