2021-11-17 Webinar on Obstetric Fistula: A Human Rights Perspective

Obstetric fistula, the result of obstructed labour without timely medical intervention, is a devastating and debilitating preventable childbirth injury. The traumatising impact of obstetric fistula on women and girls has long been severely neglected in human development policy, planning and implementation.

This webinar will explore the experiences and challenges of obstetric fistula from a critical human rights perspective, detailing how the denial of human rights is both a cause and consequence of obstetric fistula and demonstrates the necessity for a human rights-based approach to eradicating obstetric fistula and improving the lives of women and girls.

DR. SHERSHAH SYED
Responding to the challenges of obstetric fistula in Pakistan

MS ALICE EMASU SERUYANGE
Responding to the challenges of obstetric Fistula in Uganda

SR. MIRJAM BEIKE RGS
Obstetric Fistula as a preventable experience

FR. EDWARD FLYNN CSSp
Advocacy for the prevention of obstetric fistula through a human rights approach

Sr. Dr. MIRIAM DUGGAN FMSA
Reflections on obstetric fistula in Africa