Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, General Recommendation #34, par. 39 (d) and (f) (2016)

Text of the recommendation

39. States parties should safeguard the right of rural women and/or girls to adequate health care, and ensure: (...) (d) The systematic and regular monitoring of the health and nutritional status of pregnant women and new mothers, especially adolescents mothers, and their infants. In case of malnutrition or lack of access to clean water, extra food rations and drinking water should be provided systematically throughout pregnancy and lactation; (...) (f) That health-care information is widely disseminated in local languages and dialects through various media, including in writing, through illustrations and orally, and that it includes information on, inter alia: hygiene; preventing communicable, non-communicable and sexually transmitted diseases; healthy lifestyles and nutrition; family planning and the benefits of delayed childbearing; health during pregnancy; breastfeeding and its impact on child and maternal health; and the need to eliminate violence against women, including sexual and domestic violence and harmful practices;