strategy
Ensuring equal rights of women on family planning decisions
Synonyms:
Ensuring women's access to family planning services Description:
The aim is for women and men to have the same right to decide freely and responsibly on the number and spacing of their children, to have access to the information, education and means, as appropriate, to enable them to exercise this right in keeping with their freedom, dignity and personally held values, taking into account ethical and cultural considerations. Context:
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Claim:
Such equality would be achieved if governments took active steps to implement, as a matter of urgency, relevant measures which accorded with country-specific conditions and legal systems. Broader:
Defending women's rightsImproving status of womenProviding services for womenProviding services for womenProtecting acquired legal rights of womenReducing discrimination in family planning facilitiesSecuring equality of opportunity for males and femalesSupporting demographic changes for sustainable development Constrains:
Abstaining from family-planning education Constrained by:
Denying woman's right to abortion Facilitated by:
Publicizing family planning methods Problems:
Insufficient access to family planningValues:
Rights Subjects:
Society → WomenSocial Activity → Services
Health Care → Birth control
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
