Give birth between human rights and obstetric violence. Conceptual approach and analysis of the recent positioning of the United Nations.

Abstract

Obstetric violence, as an expression of the violation of human, sexual and reproductive rights of women and their environment during the care of pregnancies and childbirths, has become important on the public and social agenda in recent decades. During the new millennium, policies, laws and protocols have been created that seek to humanize obstetric care, guarantee rights and respond to the denunciation of one of the most invisible and naturalized gender-based violence worldwide.
In this article I propose a double task: first, ananalytical approach to a sociological perspective for the study of obstetric violence. Second, and based on these conceptual lenses, the documentary analysis of a recently published UN Report (2019) on the global situation of this problem.
The cross between the global, through what is collected by said document, and the local, through the doctoral research that I carried out and that inspires this article, aims to provide coordinates to continue deepening the understanding of obstetric violence, to target its prevention and eradication.