UN Committee Holds Brazil Accountable!

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04.23.12 - Last year, the Center for Reproductive Rights won a groundbreaking victory in our eight-year battle on behalf of Alyne da Silva Pimentel, an impoverished Afro-brazilian woman who died when doctors willfully failed to provide her with the maternal healthcare to which she was legally entitled.       

In February 2012, the Center presented a shadow letter on the case at the 51^st Session of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in Geneva. The letter to the CEDAW Committee, which issued the ruling in August 2011, highlights the Committee’s decision in Alyne da Silva Pimentel v. Brazil finding the State responsible under the CEDAW for violating its obligations under international law because of failures to guarantee Alyne maternal healthcare services of quality and without discrimination. The letter goes on to emphasize the Brazilian government’s obligation to take immediate action to implement the Committee’s recommendations in order to improve the quality of maternal healthcare, eliminate discrimination in healthcare, and consequently reduce the country’s maternal mortality rate.For the whole story click here