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"The Minister of Health should be included in the GBVF Council and Inter- Ministerial Committee overseeing the NSP GBVF with the following accountabilities and deliverables"
PILLAR 1- ACCOUNTABILITY, COORDINATION AND LEADERSHIP
Establish human rights- based accountability mechanisms to ensure redress for victims of obstetric violence, including financial compensation, acknowledgement of wrongdoing, formal apology, and guarantees of non- repetition. Ensure professional accountability and sanctions by professional associations in cases of obstetric violence
Accountability Mechanisms
and access to justice in cases of human rights violations.
PILLAR 2 -PREVENTION AND RESTORATION OF SOCIAL FABRIC
PILLAR 4 -RESPONSE, CARE, SUPPORT AND HEALING
Avoid the criminalization of home birth and independent practice
"forced sterilisation should be entitled to remedial medical processes and counseling should be provided"
PILLAR 3 -PROTECTION, SAFETY AND JUSTICE Strengthen and train judges; Health Complaint, Compliment and Suggestion Committees (CCSC) and the public about human rights in the context of childbirth to ensure the effective use of remedies. Guarantee women’s right to a birth companion of her choice in law and in practice; Allow home birth, and independent midwives practice.
Survivors of obstetric violence, including forced sterilisation should be entitled to remedial medical processes, and counselling at the cost of the State with a consideration that institutions who caused harm cannot provide these remedies.
PILLAR 5 -ECONOMIC POWER
ALL WOMEN WHO WERE FORCED Or coercively sterilized should be able to seek recourse against the state and that a special mechanism needs to be set up to deal with and address women’s cases beyond those before court.
Legislate a minimum maternity and parental leave time in public and private sector Develop and institute maternity support grant
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PILLAR 6 - RESEARCH AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
AMEND THE STERILISATION ACT
So that practice, and processes are put in place to ensure that forced/coerced sterilisation of women living with HIV/AIDS is unequivocally prohibited and regulations on forced and coerced sterilisation are done with oversight, reporting, monitoring in a manner that protects rights of women targeted by such practice.
Collect and publish data on the percentage of cesarean sections, vaginal births and episiotomies and on other treatments related to childbirth, obstetric care and reproductive health services on a yearly basis.
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