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Reproductive Rights Take Centre Stage at U.N. Special Session
Reproductive Rights Take Centre Stage at U.N. Special Sessionby Thalif Deen (united nations)
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 10 (IPS) - As the United Nations continues negotiations on a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for its post-2015 development agenda, population experts are hoping reproductive health will be given significant recognition in the final line-up of the goals later this year.
At the same time, an upcoming Special Session of the General Assembly in mid-September may further strengthen reproductive rights and the right to universal family planning.3
Gina Sarfaty of the Washington-based Population Action International (PAI) told IPS, "We are at a critical juncture for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR)."
As the conversation around the next set of SDGs begins to heat up, she said, "Advocates are rallying to ensure that SRHR remains as central to the next set of goals as it is to women's lives....
MORE at http://www.globalissues.org/news/2014/07/10/19738
