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Title: | Barriers to the Protection of Rural Women's Right to Maternal Health Care in Uganda |
Author: | Twinomugisha, Ben K. |
Year: | 2005 |
Periodical: | East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights |
Volume: | 11 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 67-92 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Uganda |
Subjects: | women's rights social and economic rights maternal and child health care rural women Health and Nutrition Law, Human Rights and Violence Women's Issues Law, Legal Issues, and Human Rights Health, Nutrition, and Medicine |
Abstract: | This paper teases out major barriers to the protection of rural women's right to maternal health care in Uganda. Under Uganda's 1995 Constitution, the State is obliged to provide the opportunities necessary to enhance the welfare of women to enable them realize their full potential and advancement, and to take into account their unique status and maternal functions in society. However, neither the 1995 Constitution nor any other legal instrument expressly provides for the right to health in general, and rural women's right to maternal health care in particular. Still, a careful scrutiny of some constitutional provisions shows that it is possible to locate this right in the domestic context with the attendant State obligations to protect the same. Barriers to protection of women's right to maternal health care include globalization - with in its wake inadequate funding for the health sector and lack of a human rights approach to poverty reduction strategies -; privatization; and inequitable gender relations related to women's work; women's access to physical and financial resources; and religious and cultural traditions. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |