Maternal health, human rights, and the politics of state accountability: Lessons from the Millennium Development Goals and implications for the Sustainable Development Goals
| Autor: | Surma Das |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Sustainable development
Civil society Sociology and Political Science Human rights 050204 development studies media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Millennium Development Goals Public administration 03 medical and health sciences Politics 0302 clinical medicine Framing (social sciences) Political science 0502 economics and business Political Science and International Relations Accountability 030212 general & internal medicine International development Law media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Human Rights. 17:550-567 |
| ISSN: | 1475-4843 1475-4835 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14754835.2018.1496012 |
| Popis: | Some scholars emphasize the significance of using human rights to hold states accountable to their commitment to global development goals, such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the (renewed and expanded) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Yet, others contest the extent to which such commitments indicate legal obligations, are enforceable, and can be fulfilled by developing states. This article draws on key informant interviews conducted with state and civil society actors in India, to explore the politics of using human rights to frame state accountability for maternal health (MDG 5 and SDG 3.1). The findings reveal that constitutional and institutional design peculiarities and lack of corresponding domestic legislative reforms complicate discursive framing of state accountability for maternal health using human rights, despite state commitment to MDG 5 obligations in form of resource allocation and agency creation. Yet, they also reveal the incremental opportunities to frame stat... |
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