UN finds Brazil failed to prevent pregnant woman's death
|Publication Date||19 August 2011| |Cite as||Amnesty
International, UN finds Brazil failed to prevent pregnant
woman's death, 19 August 2011, available at:
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United Nations or its Member States.| Brazil must urgently
improve the health services available to women during and after
pregnancy, Amnesty International said today after a UN body
determined the country failed to prevent the death of a pregnant
Afro-Brazilian woman. Alyne da Silva Pimentel Teixera, a
28-year-old Brazilian woman of African descent, was six months
pregnant with her second child in late 2002 when she died
following inadequate treatment at a local health centre in one
of Rio de Janeir