The article I chose is a report made by the World Health Organization titled "Respectful maternity Care: The Universal Rights of Childbearing Women". The article presents the idea that the notion of safe motherhood extends beyond the prevention of morbidity and mortality and instead include the respect for women's basic human rights, which are women's autonomy, dignity, feelings, choices, and preferences, including companionship during maternity care. According to the article, instead of a relationship that is characterized by caring, empathy, support, trust, confidence, and empowerment, women experience the opposite of this ideal. Evidence suggests a different scenario in which women seeking maternity care from both poor and wealthy nations are met with disrespect and abuse. Their Charter aims to address the issue of disrespect and abuse among women seeking maternity care and provide a platform for improvement through these steps:
-Raising awareness of childbearing women’s inclusion in the guarantees of human rights recognized in internationally adopted United Nations and other multinational declarations, conventions, and covenants;
-Highlighting the connection between human rights language and key program issues relevant to maternity care;
-Increasing the capacity of maternal health advocates to participate in human rights processes;
-Aligning childbearing women’s sense of entitlement to high‐quality maternity care with international human rights community standards; and
-Providing a basis for holding the maternal care system and communities accountable to these rights.
Lastly the image below contains the seven rights of childbearing women that correspond to a category of disrespect and abuse.