Press Statement: AIMS Friday 4th May, 2012 On Thursday 26th April the Chair of the Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services, the leading childbirth campaigning organisation in the United Kingdom, visited Budapest and expressed the wish to meet with Dr Agnes Geréb. The meeting took place in Dr Geréb’s flat as she is still […]
For immediate release Friday 27th April 2012 In a letter sent Friday (April 20th) to the incoming President of Hungary Dr. Janos Ader, the Royal College of Midwives’ President Lesley […]
ICM and FIGO call for the European Union to honour its commitment to fundamental human rights for women and to halt, in the European countries where it exists, the criminalisation of midwifery. Commenting on the imprisonment of a Hungarian midwife-obstetrician, Frances Day-Stirk, President of the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) and Prof. Gamal […]
ICM and FIGO call for the European Union to honour its commitment to fundamental human rights for women and to halt, in the European countries where it exists, the criminalisation of midwifery. http://www.internationalmidwives.org/Portals/5/jedfiles/120308%20ICM%20FIGO%20statement.pdf […]
On women’s day the Birth House Association would like to emphasize the need for a new paradigm represented by the health care system, more closely the maternity care system – in this different paradigm the patient is not subordinated. In the present system mothers are rarely offered the possibility of choice in regard to their […]