Traduction de «Hémorragie au cours de l'accouchement » (Français → Anglais) :

D. whereas, while female genital mutilation is in itself a violation of human rights, it delivers no evidence-based health benefits but rather causes very serious and irreparable injuries in the short and long term to the physical and mental health of the women and girls who undergo it, constituting a grave assault on their person and integrity, and in some cases can even be fatal; whereas the use of rudimentary instruments and the lack of antiseptic precautions have further harmful effects, such that sexual intercourse and childbirth may become painful, the affected organs are irreparably damaged and there may be complications such as haemorrhaging, shock, i ...[+++]nfection, transmission of the AIDS virus, tetanus, benign tumours and serious complications affecting pregnancy and childbirth;

I. whereas FGM causes very serious and irreparable injuries in the short and long term to the physical and mental health of the women and girls who undergo it, constituting a grave assault on their person and integrity and in some cases can even be fatal; whereas the use of rudimentary instruments and the absence of antiseptic precautions have further harmful effects so that sexual intercourse and childbirth may become painful, the organs are irreparably damaged and there may be complications such as haemorrhaging, shock, infection, transmission of the AIDS virus, tetanus, benign tumours ...[+++] and serious complications affecting pregnancy and childbirth,

– Supervision and care of 40 women at risk in pregnancy, or labour or post-natal period.

8. TAKES NOTE that complications during pregnancy and childbirth are still the leading cause of death for women in the reproductive age in developing countries and that mortality during childbirth has not decreased over the last decade in the poorest countries.

2. Article 8 of Directive 92/85 and Article 5(1) of Council Directive 76/207/EEC of 9 February 1976 on the implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women as regards access to employment, vocational training and promotion, and working conditions do not preclude a clause in an employment contract from requiring an employee who has expressed her intention to commence her maternity leave during the six weeks preceding the expected week of childbirth, and is on sick leave with a pregnancy-related illness immediately before that date and gives birth during the period of sick leave, to bring forward the date on which her p ...[+++]aid maternity leave commences either to the beginning of the sixth week preceding the expected week of childbirth or to the beginning of the period of sick leave, whichever is the later.

By its second question, the national court essentially asks whether Community law precludes a clause in an employment contract from requiring an employee who has expressed her intention to commence her maternity leave during the six weeks preceding the expected week of childbirth, and is on sick leave with a pregnancy-related illness immediately before that date and gives birth during the period of sick leave, to bring forward the date on which her paid maternity leave commences either to the beginning of the sixth week preceding the expected week of childbirth or to the beginning of the period of sick leave, whichever is the later.