This is a report of a "desk review" undertaken by the UK government at about the same time that the African Union Protocol on the Rights of Women was making its way through Africa accompanied by an intense campaign. (Warning - there are lots of acronyms, but it's worth the aggravation.) The Review is global and concerned specifically about maternal mortality: it argues that a human rights based approach can be achieved 'by enabling key policy actors in both government and civil society to recognise and find ways of directly addressing the economic, social, cultural and political forces that constrain'.