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Center for Reproductive Rights and UNFPA Launch New Briefing Paper on Family Planning and Human Rights

By ADF Alliance Alert

Center for Reproductive Rights: The briefing paper examines the many barriers that women and young people face when trying to obtain family planning information and services?from high service costs to physical inaccessibility to discriminatory treatment by healthcare providers. It demonstrates that this lack of access has serious consequences for women?s and adolescents? lives and health and violates a full range of human rights. Furthermore, it outlines states? obligations under international human rights law to ensure that family planning information and services are available, accessible, acceptable, and of good quality, and illustrates how human rights principles form the basis of effective, evidence-based family planning policies and services. The Center and UNFPA will officially launch the briefing paper on Wednesday, March 23 at UNFPA?s offices in New York. Download the full briefing paper to learn more about family planning and human rights.

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on March 18, 2011 (boomark / email).