Thematic Areas of the Platform
Laws and Human Rights
Law and human rights play a central role in recognising obstetric violence as a form of gender-based violence and a violation of fundamental rights. This section brings together legal analyses, jurisprudence, and collective reflections that examine how obstetric violence is being understood and addressed within international, regional, and national legal frameworks. It engages with emerging human rights standards articulated by courts, treaty bodies, and legal advocacy initiatives, highlighting both their transformative potential and their limitations.
Through interdisciplinary dialogue and comparative legal analysis, this section contributes to developing clearer legal principles, strengthening accountability, and supporting efforts toward law reform, litigation, and legal advocacy. It also forms part of a broader collective project to articulate an updated human rights framework on obstetric violence, grounded in contemporary jurisprudence and informed by feminist, decolonial, and cross-cultural perspectives. In doing so, it seeks to ensure that law can serve not only as a mechanism of redress, but also as a tool for structural transformation and the realisation of dignity, autonomy, and justice in childbirth.
