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Women’s Empowerment and Reproductive Health, Links throughout |
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viernes, 04 de abril de 2008 |
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The Rights Agenda: A series of international agreements reached in the past decade has affirmed that national development and global health depend on fostering the full capacity of all citizens. Essential to this is the empowerment of women. The empowerment of women has been recognized through many international, regional and national conferences as a basic human right—and also as imperative for national development, population stabilization and global well-being. Reproductive and sexual health and rights are essential for the empowerment of women and to all quality of life issues concerning social, economic, political and cultural participation by women.
Empowerment of women was a central policy goal of both the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo in 1994 and the Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW) in Beijing in 1995. Both conferences recognized and reaffirmed that reproductive health is an indispensable part of women’s empowerment. Descargue el archivo |