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State of World Population 2005

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9    |    REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AND THE MDGS
Elements of Reproductive Rights	Examples of Rights-based Actions	Relevance to specific MDGs
Right to life and survival	Prevent avoidable maternal and infant deaths End neglect of and discrimination against girls that can contribute to premature deaths Ensure access to information and methods to prevent sexually transmitted infections, including HIV	Promote gender equality and empower women (MDG 3) Reduce child mortality (MDG 4) Improve maternal health (MDG 5) Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases (MDG 6)
Right to liberty and security of the person	Take measures to prevent, punish and eradicate all forms of gender-based violence Enable women, men and adolescents to make reproductive decisions free of coercion, violence and discrimination Eliminate female genital mutilation/cutting Stop sexual trafficking	Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger (MDG 1) Promote gender equality and empower women (MDG 3) Reduce child mortality (MDG 4) Improve maternal health (MDG 5) Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases (MDG 6)
Right to seek, receive and impart information	Make information about reproductive health and rights issues and related policies and laws widely and freely available Provide full information for people to make informed reproductive health decisions Support reproductive health and family life education both in and out of schools	Promote gender equality and empower women (MDG 3) Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases (MDG 6)
Right to decide the number, timing and spacing of children	Provide people with full information that enables them to choose and correctly use a family planning method Provide access to a full range of modern contraceptive methods Enable adolescent girls to delay pregnancy	Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger (MDG 1) Achieve universal primary education (MDG 2) Promote gender equality and empower women (MDG 3) Ensure environmental stability (MDG 7)
Right to voluntarily marry and establish a family	Prevent and legislate against child and forced marriages Prevent and treat sexually transmitted infections that cause infertility Provide reproductive health services, including for HIV prevention, to married adolescent girls and their husbands	Achieve universal primary education (MDG 2) Promote gender equality and empower women (MDG 3) Reduce child mortality (MDG 4) Improve maternal health (MDG 5) Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases (MDG 6)
Right to the highest attainable standard of health	Provide access to affordable, acceptable, comprehensive and quality reproductive health information and services Allocate available resources fairly, prioritizing those with least access to reproductive health education and services	Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger (MDG 1) Promote gender equality and empower women (MDG 3) Reduce child mortality (MDG 4) Improve maternal health (MDG 5) Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases (MDG 6)
Right to the benefits of scientific progress	Fund contraceptive research, including female-controlled methods, microbicides and male methods Offer a variety of contraceptive options Provide access to emergency obstetric care that can prevent maternal deaths and obstetric fistula	Promote gender equality and empower women (MDG 3) Reduce child mortality (MDG 4) Improve maternal health (MDG 5) Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases (MDG 6)
Right to nondiscrimination and equality in education and employment	Prohibit discrimination in employment based on pregnancy, proof of contraceptive use or motherhood Establish programmes to keep girls in schools Ensure pregnant and married adolescent girls, and young mothers, are able to complete their education	Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger (MDG 1) Achieve universal primary education (MDG 2) Promote gender equality and empower women (MDG 3) Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases (MDG 6)
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