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CEDAW Article 12 - Article 12 1. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in the field of health care in order to ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women, access to health care services, including those related to family planning. 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph I of this article, States Parties shall ensure to women appropriate services in connection with pregnancy, confinement and the post-natal period, granting free services where necessary, as well as adequate nutrition during pregnancy and lactation.
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CEDAW - 37 The State party should: (a) Take steps to expedite the adoption of the maternal and child health bill; (b) Increase access to obstetric health services for women, including prenatal and postnatal services, on all atolls and islands of the State party, in particular for rural women, by ensuring effective access to universal health insurance and by increasing the number of skilled health-care personnel; (c) Ensure age-appropriate education on sexual and reproductive health and rights, including information about available contraceptive methods and family planning, in order to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies and early pregnancies and remove restrictions applied in practice by health-care personnel to unmarried girls; (d) Collect data and conduct research on the prevalence of unsafe and illegal abortions, disaggregated by age and geographical location. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 
2021-46 46. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Increase women’s and girl’s access to health-care services, in particular sexual and reproductive health services, including emergency obstetrics services, on all atolls and islands of the State party, in particular for women living on outer islands Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 
2021-46.(b) 46.(b) Ensure the accountability of health-care personnel for discrimination against women and girls seeking access to sexual and reproductive health services Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 
2021-46.(c) 46.(c) Ensure age-appropriate education on sexual and reproductive health and rights, including information about available contraceptive methods and family planning Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 
2021-46.(d) 46.(d) Collect data and conduct research on the prevalence of unsafe and illegal abortions in the State party, disaggregated by age and geographical location, amend legislation in order to decriminalize abortion in all cases, and ensure access to safe abortion services and post-abortion care Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 
2021-46.(e) 46.(e) Provide effective access for women to obstetrics services, including emergency obstetrics services, thus avoiding the need for women to resort to caesarean births if they so wish Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 
2021-46.(f) 46.(f) Ensure that women with disabilities have access to health care by ensuring the accessibility of sexual and reproductive health services, including by providing accessible mammography machines and hydraulic gynaecological examination beds Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 
2021-54.(d) 54. (d) Prohibit polygamy and raise awareness about its harmful effects on women, in line with the Committee’s general recommendation No. 21 (1994) and joint general recommendation No. 31 of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women / joint general comment No. 18 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (2014) on harmful practices. Ensure the protection of the economic rights of women in existing polygamous marriages Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 
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