Duty to prevent discrimination by private health providers on grounds of gender, race or economic status in Brazil
Legal depository - Country: Brazil / Body: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women / Year: 2011
The communication represented the first instance of maternal mortality to be addressed by the international system of human rights, and examined accountability of health provision, in relation to compounding forms of discrimination. The victim was a poor woman of Afro-Brazilian ethnicity. The ethnic, socio-economic and gender factors were widely...
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