What Role Can International Litigation Play in the Promotion and Advancement of Reproductive Rights in Latin America?

Cabal, Luisa; Roa, Mónica; Sepulveda-Oliva, Lilian

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“…In addition, a survey was carried out to gather general background information, including young women’s reproductive histories. My fieldwork was limited to certain sections of the slums [ 1 , 2 , 4 ] and I enlisted the assistance of health providers (who lived and worked in the slum) to identify and locate married adolescent women. As members of the community, they provided legitimacy and instant access, which might have taken months to build.…”

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“…ICPD outlined the right to reproductive autonomy, including the right to privacy and the right to decide the number and spacing of one’s children, which ideally should obligate governments that are signatories to ensure that men and women have equal access to a full range of contraceptive choices and reproductive health services; they have access to information and that their decisions pertaining to their reproductive choices are fully respected by the government and third parties [2]. …”

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“…In the 1990s, women’s reproductive rights were recognized globally and nationally, with a focus on political, economic, social, and cultural rights at both individual and collective levels at the International Conference on Population Development (ICPD) in 1994 [ 1 ]. ICPD outlined the right to reproductive autonomy, including the right to privacy and the right to decide the number and spacing of one’s children, which ideally should obligate governments that are signatories to ensure that men and women have equal access to a full range of contraceptive choices and reproductive health services; they have access to information and that their decisions pertaining to their reproductive choices are fully respected by the government and third parties [ 2 ].…”

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Human rights and reproductive health: political realities and pragmatic choices for married adolescent women living in urban slums, Bangladesh

Rashid

2011

BMC Int Health Hum Rights

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BackgroundIn Bangladesh, particularly in urban slums, married adolescent women’s human rights to life, health, and reproductive and sexual health remain adversely affected because of the structural inequalities and political economic, social and cultural conditions which shape how rights are understood, negotiated and lived.MethodsThe focus of the research and methods was anthropological. An initial survey of 153 married adolescent women was carried out and from this group, 50 in-depth interviews were conducted with selected participants and, from the in-depth interviews, a further eight case studies of women and their families were selected for in-depth repeated interviews and case histories.ResultsThis paper speaks of the unanticipated complexities when writing on reproductive rights for poor adolescent women living in the slums, where the discourses on ‘universal human rights’ are often removed from the reality of adolescent women’s everyday lives. Married adolescent women and their families remain extremely vulnerable in the unpredictable, crime-prone and insecure urban slum landscape because of their age, gender and poverty. Adolescent women’s understanding of their rights such as the decision to marry early, have children, terminate pregnancies and engage in risky sexual behaviour, are different from the widely accepted discourse on rights globally, which assumes a particular kind of individual thinking and discourse on rights and a certain autonomy women have over their bodies and their lives. This does not necessarily exist in urban slum populations.ConclusionsThe lived experiences and decisions made pertaining to sexual and reproductive health and ‘rights’ exercised by married adolescent women, their families and slum communities, allow us to reflect on the disconnect between the international legal human rights frameworks as applied to sexual and reproductive health rights, and how these are played out on the ground. These notions are far more complex in environments where married adolescent women and their families live in conditions of poverty and socioeconomic deprivation.

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Human rights and reproductive health: political realities and pragmatic choices for married adolescent women living in urban slums, Bangladesh

Rashid

2011

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“…For example, reference to international human rights law is being used to call attention to the contradictions between international, constitutional and legislative norms, and to advance reproductive rights and access to legal abortion in some countries. 73…”

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Global Progress in Abortion Advocacy and Policy: An Assessment of the Decade since ICPD

Hessini¹

2005

Reproductive Health Matters

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The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action represented a positive step toward legitimising abortion as a component of basic reproductive health services. This paper reviews how the ICPD principles and recommendations have been applied in the past decade toward increasing women's access to affordable, safe and legal abortion services. It examines advocacy efforts to increase understanding of abortion among policymakers and the public, policy and action at the global level, progress made in national-level policies and services, and obstacles encountered. Research and advocacy are helping to break the silence globally about unsafe abortion, and there is an emerging global movement supporting women's right to safe abortion. A great deal has been accomplished in the ten short years since ICPD, in spite of serious setbacks in some countries and continuing obstacles. A synthesis of public health and rights-based approaches, and strategic partnerships with other social justice movements are called for, as a foundation for effective legal reform efforts and to ensure that women have access to safe abortion services.

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“…En los Estados Unidos y Europa, diversas organizaciones centran su accionar en activar al poder judicial, argumentando por ejemplo, el derecho a la libre expresión en tanto principio constitucional que justifica la oposición a los derechos sexuales y reproductivos (BROWN, 2002). 1 El actual escenario de resistencia a los derechos sexuales y reproductivos desde las Cortes, reseña que si bien el litigio fue, y continúa siendo, una de las estrategias políticas claves de los movimientos sociales para ampliar el marco de los DDSSRR (CABAL, 2003;ALBARRACÍN, 2011) en la actualidad la arena judicial se ha constituido también en una instancia fuertemente recurrida de parte de sectores que defienden una concepción única de la sexualidad y reproducción basada en cosmovisiones religiosas.…”

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Defago

2018

Rev. Direito Práx.

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Resumen En América Latina los procesos políticos por el reconocimiento de los derechos sexuales y reproductivos han generado una serie de disputas entre sectores antagónicos. Por un lado, los movimientos feministas y LGBTTI pugnan por la inclusión y ampliación de estos derechos en las políticas públicas. Frente a ellos, se viene consolidando un activismo de oposición cada vez más complejo que trasciende a los actores religiosos que históricamente han defendido una moral sexual conservadora. Desde la sociedad civil, se han conformado una serie de ONG que privilegian la judicialización y el uso de un lenguaje de derechos humanos como estrategias de impacto político y social. Este trabajo identifica y analiza la configuración y evolución de las ONG católicas “Pro-Vida” de cohorte católico en Argentina en su accionar frente a las Cortes.

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What Role Can International Litigation Play in the Promotion and Advancement of Reproductive Rights in Latin America?

Cited by 10 publications

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Human rights and reproductive health: political realities and pragmatic choices for married adolescent women living in urban slums, Bangladesh

Human rights and reproductive health: political realities and pragmatic choices for married adolescent women living in urban slums, Bangladesh

Global Progress in Abortion Advocacy and Policy: An Assessment of the Decade since ICPD

Cuerpos impugnados en las cortes argentinas

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