Rights and advocacy
International conferences, including the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo, the 1995 Beijing conference, and the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS), together with the Millennium Development Goals, have each provided an important focus for advocacy on sexual and reproductive health.
At the same time, the broader discourse of 'rights' has been adopted and applied with some success to the area of sexual and reproductive health. While advocacy has ocurred most visibly in international and national arenas, important activity has also taken place in local communities in response to particular issues such as discrimination and the practice of female genital cutting.
- Sex and the rights of man
- This paper explores the subject of sexual rights and the claims about such rights as they are made by and for men. It asks: what can men's interest be in the social and sexual revolution being proposed by advocates of sexual rights? The first answer to this question is to recognise that some men's sexual rights have long been violated.
Recommended reading
- Population, reproductive health and the Millennium Development Goals: how the ICPD Programme of Action promotes poverty alleviation and human rights
- ( United Nations Population Fund , 2003)
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- In the year 2000, a set of goals to improve the lives of the poorest people in the world (afterwards called the Millennium Development Goals or MDGs) were adopted at the historic Millennium Summit at ...
- Anatomy of a backlash: sexuality and the ‘cultural’ war on human rights
- ( S. Lang / Human Rights Watch , 2005)
- Recommended reading
- This paper from Human Rights Watch highlights the growing alliance of conservative forces, or fundamentalists, which is threatening progress made over the past decade in linking sexuality, health and ...
- Sexual and reproductive health and rights: a cornerstone of development
- ( Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency , 2005)
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- In this paper, the Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency (Sida) sets out its policy on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). It argues that violations of the right to sexua...
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- An overview of the sexual and reproductive health of young people in India
- ( S. J. Jejeebhoy / Economic and Political Weekly, India , 2007)
- This article published in Economic and Political Weekly is the first of a series of papers that explores the sexual and reproductive health situation among young people in Bihar and Jharkhand, India. ...
- Effects of the ban on abortion in Nicaragua
- ( Human Rights Watch , 2007)
- Nicaragua is one of only three countries in the world to maintain a blanket ban on abortion, even in cases of rape, incest, or life- or health-threatening pregnancies. This report by Human Rights Watc...
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