Reproductive Rights are Human Rights – Handbook

Reproductive Rights are Human Rights – Handbook

<h2 id="toc">Table of Contents</h2>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_background"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Background</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#w_kay-facts"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Key Facts</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_overview"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Overview</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_see-also"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_references"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_external-links"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li>
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<h1 id="w_background">Background</h1>
The purpose of this handbook is to provide national human rights institutes with guidelines and tools on how to integrate reproductive rights into their work. With a focus on people’s rights, this toolkit provides an overview of reproductive rights and where national human rights institutes can play a role in promoting them.
<h2 id="w_kay-facts">Key Facts</h2>
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<li>There were an estimated 287,000 maternal deaths globally in 2010</li>
<li>Over 200 million women are estimated to experience life-threatening complications in connection with pregnancy</li>
<li>There are an estimated 80 million unwanted or unintended pregnancies each year</li>
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<h1 id="w_overview">Overview</h1>
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<li>Chapter 1 – Promoting the Reproductive Rights Agenda – an overview of the meaning of sexual and reproductive health together with a summary of the main global commitments</li>
<li>Chapter 2 – The National Human Rights Institution Mandate – how NHRIs can advance reproductive rights under their mandate</li>
<li>Chapter 3 – Promoting a Human Rights-Based Approach to Reproductive Health – how a human rights-based approach can be utilized for the advancement of reproductive rights</li>
<li>Chapter 4 – Reproductive Rights and Human Rights Standards and Principles – the normative human rights basis for what is understood as reproductive rights</li>
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<h1 id="w_see-also">See also</h1>
<a href="http://www.wikigender.org/index.php/Abortion_Policies_and_Reproductive_Health_around_the_World">Abortion Policies and Reproductive Health around the World</a>
<h1 id="w_references">References</h1>
<a href="http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/NHRIHandbook.pdf">Reproductive Rights are Human rights: A hand book for National Human rights Institutions</a>