NAMHHR E-Newsletter Issue 10-11

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NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MATERNAL HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS

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Double Issue-10-11 (Sept 2013- April 2014)

Recent highlights of NAMHHR activities

NAMHHR conducted a national convention on 20th and 21st of M

2014 in Delhi. More than 100 representatives from all over

participated and themes related to maternal death were presente

the convention . Please read the blog update h

http://namhhr.blogspot.in/2014/06/national-convention-on-mater

health.html

NAMHHR organized a second civil society meeting to Review Mate

Mortality and Morbidity in Jharkhandon the 20 th

of Nov 2013. It

attended by 20 participants from civil society organizations to dismaternal mortality in Jharkhand. Following this , NAMHHR conduct

fact finding mission to Godda district, Jharkhand to develop a gre

understanding of the condition of maternal health and the impa

related social determinants of health in tribal areas of Godda distric

the 21st

and 22nd

of Nov 2013. Within this, meetings were held with

Minister of Health, Jharkhand (23 Nov), the Director Health Service

Nov), and the Civil Surgeon Godda (22 Nov). The report was compl

and shared with the Government of Jharkhand on 17th February 2

Engagement with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) an

UPR-2 process

NAMHHR member attended a training on using the process of Unive

Periodic Review (UPR) organized by DFPA, held in Geneva from 20-2

October 2013 during which a tentative plan regarding NAMHH

engagement in the UPR-2 was developed.

NAMHHR worked with the National Human Rights Commission to deve

a framework of Monitoring Indicators to track Indias compliance with

comments received during UPR-2 in which NAMHHR contributed to the

sections on sexual and reproductive health rights and the right to healt

http://nhrc.nic.in/Documents/Reports/Final%20Framework%20for%20

R%20Process%2021_10_2013.pdf

Godda Report Recommendations

Inter departmentalconvergence

At health facilities in tribal areas

make special efforts to employ

adequately trained staffs

sensitive to tribal culture and

practices, provide blood

transfusion services and make

special efforts to engage PVTG

nurses health personal who

speak local language.

Re- orientation of community

and facility health providers.

Integration of health care with

the nutrition services

Community monitoring and

accountability by strengthening

the capacity of members of the

Village Health Sanitation and

Nutritional Committees.
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Issue-10- 11(Sept 2013- April 2014)

Alliance Building Efforts

NAMHHR became a formal member of

the Right to Food Campaign during itsNational Convention.

NAMHHR worked with the Right to Fo

campaign, Mobile Crches and ot

womens organizations for a comm

advocacy agenda in the context

womens unpaid work and the right

maternity benefits. With regard to t

NAMHHR Convenor attended the Right

Food Campaign in National Conventio

March 2014 and anchored a workshop

Maternity Benefits towards draft

model Rules within the National Fo

Security Act 2013.

NAMHHR Secretariat has been attend

JSA-Delhi meetings to prepare a list

demands to be submitted to the polit

parties in the run up to the Election

Delhi held on 4th

Dec 2013.

NAMHHR participated in Independ

Peoples Tribunal on the Functioning

the National Human Rights CommissionIndia, organized by Human Rights L

Network, held in JNU on

16th

December 2013.

NAMHHR was invited by Oxfam

Odisha State Consultation on Mater

Death Review held in Bhubanesw

(Odisha) on 9-10th of December 2013.

Recommendations/Endorsements

NAMHHR sent suggestions on the Draft Rulesunder the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and

their Rehabilitation Act, 2013 on 15th November 2013.

NAMHHR sent Recommendations to the Advisory Group for MNREGA, (set up by MoRD) and suggested

amendments regarding provision of Maternity Benefits in Schedule II on 5th December 2013.

NAMHHR sent a letter to the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India to highlight the issue

poor availability of blood transfusion for rural India.

NAMHHR made submissions to High Level Committee which has been constituted by

PMO(IDNo.560/51/C/15/2012) on the socio- economic, health and educational status of tribal communitie

India on 31st of December.

NAMHHR sentrecommendations for Odisha State Policy for Girl Child and Women Health and Well-being on 6tDecember 2013.

NAMHHR NATIONAL CONVENTION
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New Resources on Maternal Health and Rights

1.The Second Report of the Independent Expert Review

Group on Information and Accountability for Women's a

Children's Health, 2013 Strengthening Equity and Dignity

Through health

http://www.who.int/pmnch/media/news/2013/ierg_rep

/en/.

2.The National Human Rights Commission has asked the

Rajasthan government to pay Rs. 50,000 to a woman wh

was forced to give birth to her child by the roadsidebecause of medical negligence at Kareda in Bhilwara dist

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/nh

orders-compensation-for-roadside-

birth/article5924407.ece

3.The study "An Analysis of Factors Linked to the Decline in

Maternal Mortality in Nepal" has revealed important

upward trends in the use of delivery and antenatal servic

between 1996 and 2011 in Nepal, corroborating the

findings in earlier and, importantly, indicating that the

improvement is continuing studies. full paper athttp://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371

Fjournal.pone.0093029

4. WHO released a document on Declining MMR from 199

The document is titled : Trends in Maternal Mortality 19

to 2013. Read full document here :

http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/

nitoring/maternal-mortality2013/en/

5. The Down to Earth article on maternal mortality with a

comparison of southern and northern states . It report

about the National convention organized by NAMHHR Delhi on march 20th and 21st .

http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/delivering-sa


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Maternal Death Review project Updates

The Tool for the MDR has been revised

with the help of Dr. Abhijit Das and it

has been sent to Dr Himanshu

Bhushan, Deputy Commissioner of

Maternal Health, Government of India

for the suggestions.

developing a MDR module for block

level orientation of front line health

workers like ANM and ASHA to

encourage and inform them about

importance of reporting maternal

deaths. To enable this , a group of

three people including two from

SAHAYOG and one from partner

organization ASHA visited ARTH in

Udaipur and studied their project oncommunity based- MDR in 10 districts

of Rajasthan under UNFA Project in

2011.

Formation of state advisory groups

(including government officials) in all

four partner states
http://www.who.int/pmnch/media/news/2013/ierg_report/en/http://www.who.int/pmnch/media/news/2013/ierg_report/en/http://www.who.int/pmnch/media/news/2013/ierg_report/en/http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/nhrc-orders-compensation-for-roadside-birth/article5924407.ecehttp://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/nhrc-orders-compensation-for-roadside-birth/article5924407.ecehttp://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/nhrc-orders-compensation-for-roadside-birth/article5924407.ecehttp://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/nhrc-orders-compensation-for-roadside-birth/article5924407.ecehttp://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0093029http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0093029http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0093029http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/monitoring/maternal-mortality-2013/en/http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/monitoring/maternal-mortality-2013/en/http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/monitoring/maternal-mortality-2013/en/http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/delivering-safetyhttp://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/delivering-safetyhttp://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/monitoring/maternal-mortality-2013/en/http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/monitoring/maternal-mortality-2013/en/http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0093029http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0093029http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/nhrc-orders-compensation-for-roadside-birth/article5924407.ecehttp://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/nhrc-orders-compensation-for-roadside-birth/article5924407.ecehttp://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/nhrc-orders-compensation-for-roadside-birth/article5924407.ecehttp://www.who.int/pmnch/media/news/2013/ierg_report/en/http://www.who.int/pmnch/media/news/2013/ierg_report/en/


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NAMHHR Activities

NAMHHR SC members had a meeting on 22nd March 2014 in Delhi. They reviewed the National Conventionthat was held in Delhi on 20

thand 21

stMarch and there was also a discussion on NAMHHR TOR.

NAMHHR had a General Body Meeting on 2728 November 2013 in Delhi. The meeting reviewed the

activities that have been carried out by NAMHHR in the last two years and brainstormed on strategies that

could be used in the coming two years.

NAMHHR organized a fourth capacity building workshop with the objective of developing analytical skills of

the participants on maternal deaths documented under the guidance of Dr. Subha Sri from CommonHealth

on 18-19th

Oct 2013 in Delhi.


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Upcoming Events

1. MDR State Advisory group meetings are being conducted in different states (May and June)

2. NAMHHR will organise a meeting on "Human rights based approaches for preventing maternal mortal

on 24th of June 2014 in Delhi.

3.

A meeting will be organised in the Santhal Paragans Division of Jharkhand with the NAMHHR members

and other CSOs working in the area, to discuss advocacy and actions based on findings from the Godd

fact finding mission.
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