International Platform on Obstetric Violence (IPOV): an innovative tool for a respectful maternity and childbirth care

孕产妇和分娩护理中的过度医疗化、不尊重、暴力和虐待已被主要国际人权利益攸关方确定为一个紧迫的全球公共卫生问题（WHO 2014，Simonovic 2019，欧洲理事会2019）。他们对这一问题的严重性日益感到关切，因此一再呼吁采取行动。IPOV-RESPECTFUL CARE项目旨在响应这一呼吁，通过制定和实施《产科暴力问题国际平台》，解决产科暴力问题，确保尊重产妇和分娩护理。该平台是一个具体的工具，支持学术研究和公共政策之间的桥梁，培训保健专业人员，提高妇女的观点，以及公众参与这一问题。该平台将是一个创新的、国际性的、跨学科的、跨部门的和跨文化的数字和互动工具，用于在卫生专业人员、卫生培训管理人员、决策者、研究人员、妇女和全社会中产生、分享和转让知识，系统化和交流良好做法，获取技能和规划基于性别的关于尊重孕产妇和分娩护理的创新培训包。为了实现这些目标，来自19个参与组织和9个国家（大学、研究中心、民间组织和卫生孕产保健机构）的39名突破性专家将通过战略和定期交流开展合作，以支持横向交流模式。专家们将采用跨文化的方法和参与式的方法来支持批判性思维和多域空间，以促进解构，连接和重建“自然化”的护理方式。

Over-medicalisation, disrespect, violence and abuse in maternity and childbirth care have been identified as an urgent global public health concern by leading international human rights stakeholders (WHO 2014, Simonovic 2019, Council of Europe 2019). Their growing concern over the magnitude of this issue has resulted in repeated calls to action. The IPOV-RESPECTFUL CARE project intends to respond this call to address obstetric violence and ensure respectful maternity and childbirth care through the development and implementation of the International Platform on Obstetric Violence. The Platform is a concrete tool to support the bridging of bridge academic research and public policy, training for health professionals, elevating women's perspectives, and public engagement on the matter. The Platform will be an innovative, international, interdisciplinary, intersectoral and cross-cultural digital and interactive tool for producing, sharing, and transferring knowledge, systematising, and exchanging good practices, acquiring skills and planning gender-based innovative training packages on respectful maternity and childbirth care among health professionals, health training managers, decision makers, researchers, women, and all of society. To achieve these goals, a network of 39 breakthrough experts, from 19 participating organisations and 9 countries (universities, research centres, civil organisations, and health maternity care institutions) will collaborate through strategic and regular exchanges to support horizontal communication patterns. Experts will adopt cross-cultural approaches and participatory methods to support critical thinking and multivocal spaces to facilitate deconstruction, connection and reconstruction of 'naturalised' ways of caring.