11. Order the Respondent State to provide free access to prenatal and maternal care services for all women, particularly those in rural areas, and to establish health care centres in rural areas throughout the country; 111. Request the Respondent State to invest more of its resources in improving the health care sector as a whole; IV. Award the sum of 5 billion naira in damages or compensation to women and their families who have suffered physical and psychological trauma, including debilitating injuries, as a result of pregnancy and childbirth related complications in the country; v. Request the Respondent State to devote more resources to the health sector in order to curb the maternal mortality rate in the country. Procedure 14. The Secretariat received the Communicatioh "*, '." _,{, .. /.,. on 31 December 2014 and acknowledged receipt on 7 January 2015·; cpnlo'July 2015, the Community Law Centre requested that the Women Advocacy and Research Documentation Centre and the Centre for Reproductive Rights,be added as complainants in the Comm . . 15. The Extr decided to be seized of this Communication at its 18th .Session held from 29 July to 7 August 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya. , the Complainants were informed of the Commission's decision to be d of. the matter' and were invited to submit evidence and arguments o~ admis~il)iH_tywithin two months. The Respondent State was informed of the seizure by NoteVerbale on the same date, which also included the Communication and-the Seizure decision. 3

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