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ICM advocates for midwife-led reproductive health services to be available to women globally through strengthening our members, working with feminist and health advocacy groups, and spreading awareness about the ways midwife-led care improves health outcomes.

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Position Statement

Gender equality and pay equity for midwifery

ICM advocates the reduction of gender inequalities and pay equity. Member associations should strive to implement funding models that recognise parity and promote equal pay for equal work.
Statements

The Health-Care Professional Associations’ response to the Honoring Women’s Demands paper

In 2022, women's voices united through the What Women Want campaign, demanding respect and dignity in healthcare, prompting Honoring Women's Demands.
Midwife Juliya Akter is wrapping a newborn and showing the mother how to take care of the newborn. Keraniganj Upazila Health Complex, Bangladesh.
Report

State of the World’s Midwifery 2021

SoWMy 2021 builds on previous reports and calls for urgent investment in midwives to enable them to fulfil their potential to contribute towards UHC and the SDG agenda.
Toolkit

Advocacy Toolkit

Advocacy is the act of supporting a cause to effect change; this toolkit helps midwives and midwives’ associations learn and plan advocacy activities.
Statements

Statement on the Provision of Personal Protective Equipment for Midwives  

Urgent Call for Governments to Provide Personal Protective Equipment to Midwives
A midwife Hotaru Tsuchida with her pregnant patient just before birth at Aiiku Hospital in Tokyo, Japan.
Statements

Statement on Respectful Maternity Care During COVID-19

ICM is concerned that the human rights of women, babies and midwives are being violated by inappropriate protocols for the management of pregnancy, birth and postnatal care.
Statements

Statement on COVID-19 Vaccination for Midwives

ICM calls on all midwives to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect themselves and safely continue to provide care for mothers and newborns.
A midwife Haruka Fukuda talks to her patient during pregnancy check up at Aiiku Hospital in Tokyo, Japan.
Statements

Protecting Midwives to Sustain Care for Women, Newborns and their Families in the COVID-19 Pandemic

As the world struggles to get COVID-19 under control, our global health workforce is under increasing strain – and woman-centred, midwifery-led care is more at risk than ever.
Statements

Statement on Stopping the Criminalisation of Midwifery

Women’s right to choose home birth must be upheld. This choice should not be denied because there is not an adequate and enabling regulatory framework that would make it possible for midwives to practice their profession in any place that women choose to give birth.
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