Reproductive Health And Human Rights

Author : Rebecca J. Cook,Bernard M. Dickens,Mahmoud F. Fathalla
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191553837

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Reproductive Health and Human Rights by Rebecca J. Cook,Bernard M. Dickens,Mahmoud F. Fathalla Pdf

The concept of reproductive health promises to play a crucial role in improving women's health and rights around the world. It was internationally endorsed by a United Nations conference in 1994, but remains controversial because of the challenge it presents to conservative agencies: it challenges policies of suppressing public discussion on human sexuality and regulating its private expressions. Reproductive Health and Human Rights is designed to equip healthcare providers and administrators to integrate ethical, legal, and human rights principles in protection and promotion of reproductive health, and to inform lawyers and women's health advocates about aspects of medicine and healthcare systems that affect reproduction. Rebecca Cook, Bernard Dickens, and Mahmoud Fathalla, leading international authorities on reproductive medicine, human rights, medical law, and bioethics, integrate their disciplines to provide an accessible but comprehensive introduction to reproductive and sexual health. They analyse fifteen case-studies of recurrent problems, focusing particularly on resource-poor settings. Approaches to resolution are considered at clinical and health system levels. They also consider kinds of social change that would relieve the underlying conditions of reproductive health dilemmas. Supporting the explanatory chapters and case-studies are extensive resources of epidemiological data, human rights documents, and research materials and websites on reproductive and sexual health. In explaining ethics, law, and human rights to healthcare providers and administrators, and reproductive health to lawyers and women's health advocates, the authors explore and illustrate limitations and dysfunctions of prevailing health systems and their legal regulation, but also propose opportunities for reform. They draw on the values and principles of ethics and human rights recognized in national and international legal systems, to guide healthcare providers and administrators, lawyers, governments, and national and international agencies and legal tribunals. Reproductive Health and Human Rights will be an invaluable resource for all those working to improve services and legal protection for women around the world. Updates to this book, and information on translations to French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Arabic are now available at www.law.utoronto.ca/faculty/cook/ReproductiveHealth.html

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9241564989

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Sexual Health, Human Rights and the Law by World Health Organization Pdf

This report demonstrates the relationship between sexual health, human rights and the law. Drawing from a review of public health evidence and extensive research into human rights law at international, regional and national levels, the report shows how states in different parts of the world can and do support sexual health through legal and other mechanisms that are consistent with human rights standards and their own human rights obligations.

Author : Laura Reichenbach,Mindy Jane Roseman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 081220610X

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Reproductive Health and Human Rights by Laura Reichenbach,Mindy Jane Roseman Pdf

Reproductive Health and Human Rights: The Way Forward critically reflects on the past fifteen years of international efforts aimed at improving health, alleviating poverty, diminishing gender inequality, and promoting human rights. The volume includes essays by leading scholars and practitioners that are centered on the 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and its resulting Programme of Action. ICPD, an agreement among 179 governments, UN agencies, and NGOs, was intended to shape population and development policy—reinterpreted and redefined as "reproductive health." More than a decade after the enthusiasm that accompanied ICPD, there is growing concern about its effectiveness in the context of global health and development. Reproductive Health and Human Rights addresses that concern. The book grapples with fundamental questions about the relationships among population, fertility decline, reproductive health, human rights, poverty alleviation, and development and assesses the various arguments—demographic, public health, human rights-based, and economic—for and against ICPD today. A number of the chapters address institutional challenges to ICPD and consider how the changing political, religious, academic, and disciplinary contexts matter. Other chapters engage operational and conceptual issues and whether ICPD has been able to move the reproductive health agenda forward on topics such as maternal mortality, abortion, HIV/AIDS, adolescents, reproductive technologies, and demography. Finally, several chapters examine how ICPD has been sidelined by emerging health and development agendas and what could be done in response. Unlike any book yet published, Reproductive Health and Human Rights: The Way Forward examines the state of the arguments for reproductive health and rights from a multidisciplinary perspective that provides policymakers, scholars, and activists with a better understanding of how reproductive health and rights have developed, their place in the global policy agenda, and how they might evolve most effectively in the future.

Author : Eunice Brookman-Amissah,Tinyade Kachika,Simangele Mavundla,Jaime Todd-Gher,Christina Zampas,Onyema Afulukwe-Eruchalu,Karen Stefiszyn,Rebecca Amollo,Lisa Forman,Godfrey Kangaude,Tiffany Banda,Ayodele Atsenuwa,Susana Sácouto,Fana Hagos Berhane
Publisher : PULP
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 9781920538316

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Strengthening the protection of sexual and reproductive health and rights in the African region through human rights by Eunice Brookman-Amissah,Tinyade Kachika,Simangele Mavundla,Jaime Todd-Gher,Christina Zampas,Onyema Afulukwe-Eruchalu,Karen Stefiszyn,Rebecca Amollo,Lisa Forman,Godfrey Kangaude,Tiffany Banda,Ayodele Atsenuwa,Susana Sácouto,Fana Hagos Berhane Pdf

Strengthening the protection of sexual and reproductive health and rights in the African region through human rights uses rights-based frameworks to address some of the serious sexual and reproductive health challenges that the African region is currently facing. More importantly, the book provides insightful human rights approaches on how these challenges can be overcome. The book is the first of its kind. It is an important addition to the resources available to researchers, academics, policymakers, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, learners and other persons interested in the subject of sexual and reproductive health and rights as they apply to the African region. Human rights issues addressed by the book include: access to safe abortion and emergency obstetric care; HIV/AIDS; adolescent sexual health and rights; early marriage; and gender-based sexual violence.

Author : Maria Isabel Rodriguez,Eszter Kismodi,Jane Cottingham,World Health Organization. Reproductive Health and Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9241506741

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Ensuring Human Rights in the Provision of Contraceptive Information and Services by Maria Isabel Rodriguez,Eszter Kismodi,Jane Cottingham,World Health Organization. Reproductive Health and Research Pdf

These WHO guidelines provide recommendations for programmes as to how they can ensure that human rights are respected, protected and fulfilled, while services are scaled up to reduce unmet need for contraception. Both health data and international human rights laws and treaties were incorporated into the guidance. This guidance is complementary to existing WHO recommendations for sexual and reproductive health programmes, including guidance on family planning, maternal and newborn health, safe abortion, and core competencies for primary health care.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9789241549998

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Consolidated Guideline on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women Living with HIV by World Health Organization Pdf

he starting point for this guideline is the point at which a woman has learnt that she is living with HIV and it therefore covers key issues for providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights-related services and support for women living with HIV. As women living with HIV face unique challenges and human rights violations related to their sexuality and reproduction within their families and communities as well as from the health-care institutions where they seek care particular emphasis is placed on the creation of an enabling environment to support more effective health interventions and better health outcomes. This guideline is meant to help countries to more effectively and efficiently plan develop and monitor programmes and services that promote gender equality and human rights and hence are more acceptable and appropriate for women living with HIV taking into account the national and local epidemiological context. It discusses implementation issues that health interventions and service delivery must address to achieve gender equality and support human rights.

Author : Ebenezer Durojaye,Gladys Mirugi-Mukundi,Charles Ngwena
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000401349

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Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Africa by Ebenezer Durojaye,Gladys Mirugi-Mukundi,Charles Ngwena Pdf

This book explores recent developments, constraints and opportunities relating to the advancement of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Africa. Despite many positive developments in relation to sexual and reproductive health in recent years, many Africans still encounter challenges, for instance in poor maternity services, living with HIV, and discrimination on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation or identity. Covering topics such as abortion, gender identity, adolescent sexuality and homosexuality, the chapters in this book discuss the impact of culture, morality and social beliefs on the enjoyment of sexual and reproductive health and rights across the continent, particularly in relation to vulnerable and marginalized groups. The book also explores the role of litigation, national human rights institutions and regional human rights bodies in advancing the realization of sexual and reproductive health and rights in the region. Throughout, the contributions highlight the relevance of a rights-based framework in addressing topical and contentious issues on sexual and reproductive health and rights within Sub-Saharan Africa. This book will be of interest to researchers of sexuality, civil rights and health in Africa. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003175049, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Sandra Coliver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Abortion
ISBN : 1870798422

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The Right to Know by Sandra Coliver Pdf

7. AIDS and HIV

Author : Wendy Chavkin,Ellen Chesler
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 081353657X

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Where Human Rights Begin by Wendy Chavkin,Ellen Chesler Pdf

Brings together eight wide-reaching and provocative essays that examine the practical and theoretical issues of reproductive health policy and implementation. This book assesses the impact of policies that have been initiated and consider future directions that governments must take in order to translate visionary ideas into actual achievements.

Author : Alicia Ely Yamin
Publisher : Fxb Center for Health and Human Rights
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 0674019482

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Learning to Dance by Alicia Ely Yamin Pdf

This book promotes understanding of how the fields of health and human rights can better work together, including both addressing human rights implications of reproductive health interventions and fostering rights-based policies and laws relating to sexuality and reproductive health. A decade after the groundbreaking Cairo Conference on Population and Development a serious gap remains between the reproductive health and human rights fields. Too often, despite using the same language, the two fields do not seem to share the same understanding or strategies. In order to better understand the links and synergies between reproductive health and human rights as well as the continuing gaps between the two fields, this book brings together twelve experts to compare how each field traditionally approaches a situation that presents both public health and human rights implications. Six case studies, illustrating a range of issues in sexual and reproductive health, are analyzed by both a public health expert and a human rights expert, and a separate essay synthesizes the convergences and divergences between the two approaches and points to ways forward.

Author : Shira M. Goldenberg,Ruth Morgan Thomas,Anna Forbes,Stefan Baral
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030641719

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Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights by Shira M. Goldenberg,Ruth Morgan Thomas,Anna Forbes,Stefan Baral Pdf

This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the health inequities and human rights issues faced by sex workers globally across diverse contexts, and outlines evidence-based strategies and best practices. Sex workers face severe health and social inequities, largely as the result of structural factors including punitive and criminalized legal environments, stigma, and social and economic exclusion and marginalization. Although previous work has largely emphasized an elevated burden and gaps in HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) services in sex work, less attention has been paid to the broader health and human rights concerns faced by sex workers. This contributed volume addresses this gap. The chapters feature a variety of perspectives including academic, community, implementing partners, and government to synthesize research evidence as well as lessons learned from local-level experiences across different regions, and are organized under three parts: Burden of health and human rights inequities faced by sex workers globally, including infectious diseases (e.g., HIV, STIs), violence, sexual and reproductive health, and drug use Structural determinants of health and human rights, including legislation, law enforcement, community engagement, intersectoral collaboration, stigma, barriers to health access, im/migration issues, and occupational safety and health Evidence-based services and best practices at various levels ranging from individual and community to policy-level interventions to identify best practices and avenues for future research and interventions Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights is an essential resource for researchers, policy-makers, governments, implementing partners, international organizations and community-based organizations involved in research, policies, or programs related to sex work, public health, social justice, gender-based violence, women's health and harm reduction.

Author : Zakiya Luna
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479831296

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Reproductive Rights as Human Rights by Zakiya Luna Pdf

Reveals both the promise and the pitfalls associated with a human rights approach to the women of color-focused reproductive rights activism of SisterSong How did reproductive justice—defined as the right to have children, to not have children, and to parent—become recognized as a human rights issue? In Reproductive Rights as Human Rights, Zakiya Luna highlights the often-forgotten activism of women of color who are largely responsible for creating what we now know as the modern-day reproductive justice movement. Focusing on SisterSong, an intersectional reproductive justice organization, Luna shows how, and why, women of color mobilized around reproductive rights in the domestic arena. She examines their key role in re-framing reproductive rights as human rights, raising this set of issues as a priority in the United States, a country hostile to the concept of human rights at home. An indispensable read, Reproductive Rights as Human Rights provides a much-needed intersectional perspective on the modern-day reproductive justice movement.

Author : Sabine Klotz,Heiner Bielefeldt,Martina Schmidhuber,Andreas Frewer
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839440544

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Healthcare as a Human Rights Issue by Sabine Klotz,Heiner Bielefeldt,Martina Schmidhuber,Andreas Frewer Pdf

This book deals with various facets of the human right to health: its normative profile as a universal right, current political and legal conflicts and contextualized implementation in different healthcare systems. The authors come from different countries and disciplines - law, political science, ethics, medicine etc. - and bring together a broad variety of academic and practical perspectives. The volume contains selected contributions of the international conference "The Right to Health - an Empty Promise?" held in September 2015 in Berlin and organized by the Emerging Field Initiative Project "Human Rights in Healthcare" (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg).

Author : Laura Reichenbach,Mindy Roseman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780812221602

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Reproductive Health and Human Rights by Laura Reichenbach,Mindy Roseman Pdf

Reproductive Health and Human Rights assesses the past fifteen years of international efforts aimed at improving health, alleviating poverty, diminishing gender inequality, and promoting human rights.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
ISBN : OCLC:47865756

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The Application of Human Rights to Reproductive and Sexual Health by Anonim Pdf