scholarly journals Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women: A Rights-based Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Shaorin Tanira ◽  
Raihana Amin ◽  
Sanchita Adhikary ◽  
Khadiza Sultana ◽  
Rashida Khatun
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Legislative Changes ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Rights

Violations of women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights are frequent all over the world. Women’s sexual and reproductive health is related to multiple human rights. The term ‘rights-based’ has become increasingly linked to the concept of a more comprehensive approach to sexual and reproductive rights of women around the globe. The rights-based perspective is derived from the treaties, pacts and other international commitments that recognize and reinforce human rights, including the sexual and reproductive rights of women. We conducted an extensive review of the guidelines, frameworks, research reports and published articles that have been cited as informing the rights-based approach. The findings of the review highlights what is meant by sexual and reproductive health and rights by the stakeholders, why this matter is important, and what can be done. It demands more partnerships with human rights, women’s and other civil society organizations, increased number of successful national policies, initiatives and/or legislative changes, increased budget and other resources at national and/or local community level, mass communication and engagement of men to promote and advance women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. Achievement of gender equality is very crucial, because it is a human right that advances women’s empowerment; and is interlinked with sexual and reproductive health and rights.

scholarly journals Niñas en el sistema de justicia brasileño: El necesario debate sobre los derechos sexuales y reproductivos (Girls in the Brazilian Justice System: The Necessary Debate on Sexual and Reproductive Rights)

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 388-414
Author(s):  
Maria Cristina Gonçalves Vicentin ◽  
Daniel Adolpho Dantin Assis
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Rights

En este artículo presentamos el debate brasileño sobre los derechos sexuales y reproductivos en su condición de derechos políticos que pueden favorecer avances significativos en la concepción y ampliación de los derechos de niñas, niños y adolescentes principalmente referidos al concepto de autonomía. A través de la revisión de los marcos legales y de la literatura, específicamente relacionados a las niñas en el sistema de justicia brasileño, evidenciamos tensiones entre el ejercicio de los derechos sexuales y reproductivos y las respectivas prácticas institucionales. Consideramos que es fundamental una perspectiva de protección que asegure las condiciones de integridad de sus cuerpos, pero que garantice simultáneamente el usufructo de los derechos relativos a la sexualidad. La articulación de derechos sexuales y reproductivos y la salud sexual y reproductiva puede ser un camino prometedor, especialmente para las adolescentes que encuentran mayores obstáculos para su ejercicio. In this article, we present the Brazilian debate on sexual and reproductive rights as political rights, which could bring significant advances in creating and broadening the rights of children and adolescents. By means of a revision of legal milestones and of the literature, more specifically that which relates to girls in the Brazilian justice system, we highlight tensions between sexual and reproductive rights and the respective institutional practices. We consider it crucial to have a protective perspective ensuring conditions for the integrity of their bodies, but that simultaneously guarantees the exercise of rights pertaining to body and sexuality. Coordinating sexual and reproductive rights and sexual and reproductive health may be a promising path, especially for those adolescents who find greater obstacles in exercising these.

scholarly journals Estado reciente de los derechos sexuales y reproductivos de mujeres migrantes que residen en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Javiera Verónica Fanta Garrido
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Population Group ◽  
Reproductive Health Services ◽  
The Status ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Rights

Sexual and reproductive rights of migrant women are a subject of growing interest due to the difficulties in accessing sexual and reproductive health services and supplies, along with constraints inherent to the health care system. This article analyzes the status of some sexual and reproductive rights of immigrant women from neighboring countries and Peru residing in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Using secondary data and interviews with key informants, this research examines adolescent reproduction, access to preventive care, and the predominant characteristics the in sexual and reproductive health care of this population group.

The United Nations Population Fund

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilie Filmer-Wilson ◽  
Luis Mora
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Major Turning Point

This chapter analyzes UNFPA’s evolving human rights approach to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, of which the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) was a major turning point. In translating the rights-based vision of the ICPD into practice, UNFPA has pursued two strategies: engaging with the human rights system to strengthen accountability for sexual and reproductive health and rights and advancing operational clarity and guidance on the links between human rights and sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights. In these efforts, important milestones have been achieved, and today, UNFPA is widely recognized as a human rights-based organization. However, the organization has struggled to fully employ human rights in its work. The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, on which UNFPA’s new Strategic Plan for 2018–2021 is based, provides a powerful framework for UNFPA to more fully align itself with the rights-based vision of the ICPD.

Ensuring Reproductive Rights of Women in Nepal: Law and Praxis

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-62
Author(s):  
D. N. Parajuli
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Reproductive Health Services ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
The Right ◽  
Health Rights

 Reproductive rights are fundamental rights and freedoms relating to reproduction and reproductive health that vary amongst countries around the world, but have a commonality about the protection, preservation and promotion of a woman‘s reproductive health rights. Reproductive rights include the right to autonomy and self-determination , the right of everyone to make free and informed decisions and have full control over their body, sexuality, health, relationships, and if, when and with whom to partner, marry and have children , without any form of discrimination, stigma, coercion or violence. The access and availability of reproductive health services are limited due to geography and other issues, non-availability and refusal of reproductive health services may lead to serious consequences. The State need to ensure accessibility, availability, safe and quality reproductive health services and address the lifecycle needs of women and girls and provide access of every young women and girls to comprehensive sexuality education based on their evolving capacity as their human rights, through its inclusion and proper implementation in school curriculum, community-based awareness program and youth led mass media. It is necessary for strengthening compliance, in a time-bound manner, with international human rights standards that Nepal has ratified that protect, promote, and fulfill the basic human rights and reproductive health rights in Nepal and also need to review standards and conventions that Nepal has had reservations about or those that have been poorly implemented in the country.

scholarly journals El debate del aborto y sus implicaciones en las legislaciones mundiales

2010 ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Neus Sánchez Expósito
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽  
Termination Of Pregnancy ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Complex Subject ◽  
Voluntary Termination

El aborto ha sido siempre un tema complejo que, en la actualidad, sigue suscitando intensos debates desde planteamientos muy dispares y posturas irreconciliables. Detrás de las diferentes líneas argumentativas para legitimar o no la interrupción voluntaria de la gestación existe un análisis de salud sexual y reproductiva desde una óptica moral con una concepción determinada de la “maternidad” que condiciona la jurisprudencia de los diferentes países. Muchas legislaciones permiten el aborto por cuestiones de salud, pero la defensa de la libertad de las mujeres lo reivindica como un derecho humano.<br /><br />Abortion has been always a complex subject still carries on causing heated discussions from very disparate criteria and irreconcilable positions. Behind the different argumentative lines to legitimate, or not, the voluntary termination of pregnancy, there is an analysis on sexual and reproductive health from a moral viewpoint with a certain conception of “motherhood” that conditions all countries’ jurisprudence. Many legislations authorize abortion on heath matters, but the defense of the women’s freedom demands it as a human right.<br /><br />

The Right to Health

2018 ◽  
pp. 231-264
Author(s):  
Sandra Fredman
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Individual Rights ◽  
Personal Integrity ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

Is health a human right? Many would maintain that it is not. On this view health and ill-health are due to natural causes, not to State actions. Others are concerned that health raises too many polycentric problems to be dealt with through justiciable human rights. These contestations have shaped the way in which the right to health is understood. Section II sketches out the health context. Section III considers jurisdictions in which there is no express right to health, but a right has been derived from rights to life, personal integrity, or privacy. Section IV contrasts this approach with jurisdictions with an express right to health. Section V examines the role of the right to equality, while section VI focuses on reproductive health. The final section returns to the challenges of polycentricity and the extent to which a justiciable right can address systemic issues rather than individual rights to medication.

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