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Sexual and reproductive health and rights are central to achieving the vision of the Millennium Development Goals. Such rights concern people’s everyday lives, their livelihoods, their opportunities and their aspirations. They allow individuals to be empowered to exercise choice in their sexual and reproductive lives. However, there are challenges that stand in the way of universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights being realized. Funding for these services has decreased radically while 222 million women and girls worldwide still lack access to the contraceptives they want and need. Vision 2020 is IPPF’s 10-point call to action for governments À“ a series of ambitious goals, detailing the changes that are needed to make the world a fairer and healthier place for women and girls. Over the coming years, IPPF will publish a report every year that focuses on each of the Vision 2020 goals, in turn, to urge action by decision makers. Our focus for this first report is goal 1 of Vision 2020 which calls on governments to ensure that by 2015 a new international framework includes sexual and reproductive health and rights as essential priorities. The next two years will see the end of an era of international commitments (known as the Millennium Development Goals) and the development of a new set of commitments. It will also see the adoption of the 20-year Programme of Action from the historic 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development. This report À“ the first in our Vision 2020 series À“ focuses on why sexual and reproductive health and rights should be at the core of sustainable development from the outset. Without them, the lives of women and girls will be compromised, as will people’s ability to lift themselves out of poverty and to live sustainably within their resources. This report provides a compelling case for why sexual and reproductive health and rights must form essential priorities in the post-2015 framework. It examines sexual and reproductive health and rights within the global context, as well as highlighting the particular advocacy challenges, wins and opportunities that regions face. The report also provides policy insight into how sexual and reproductive health and rights relate to each of the three dimensions of sustainable development, highlighting why we cannot afford to leave sexual and reproductive health and rights off the agenda if sustainable development is our end goal. The report includes a spotlight focus on young people’s needs, acknowledging that such needs must be embedded within the new framework from the outset.
Publisher: IPPF
Year of Publication: 2014
Download : 19523_report_for_web.pdf
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