Perspectives Research is important for improving health outcomes and is a critical element of a functioning health system. Without locally generated data and analysis, well-inten-tioned programmes do not often respond to the realities where they are implemented. 1 Hence strengthening research capacity in low-and middle-income countries is one of the most powerful, cost–effective and sustainable...

The idea for this supplement arose from discussions among a set of research partners associated with the Realising Rights Research Programme Consortium (RR RPC), an international partnership funded by the UK Department for International Development from 200510 that focused on neglected areas of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) [1]. In the Consortium, work on rights has been conc...

ost people in African societies still shy away from an open discussion about women’s sexuality and sexual choices. The claim that making the personal political is ‘Western’ and ‘un-African’ has been widely accepted. Therefore, challenging discrimination on the grounds of sex as a human rights issue is dismissed as ‘un-African’ – implying that the widespread acts of violence against women have b...

BACKGROUND Unsafe abortion is an important cause of maternal mortality and morbidity, particularly marked in developing countries with restrictive abortion laws. It has both bioethical and human rights implications, violating their key principles and components. OBJECTIVE To highlight the magnitude of complications of unsafe abortion and examine the legal,bioethical, sexual and reproductive r...

BACKGROUND In 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. METHODS The focus of the research and methods was anthropological. ...

The American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) promotes the health and wellness of women and girls in every aspect of their lives and believes that the decision whether or not to carry a child to term is a personal decision belonging solely to the woman. Thus, AMWA supports the appropriate use of legal, safe abortions and considers such procedures to be a part of comprehensive healthcare for w...

Feminists and women’s groups around the world have been struggling to achieve some hard fought battles for equality and recognition for a very long time. Each success and each step forward has given many a reason to celebrate. But each success cannot be assumed to be complete, and “progress” is not inevitable. At specific points in time and geographic regions, strides forward in the battle towa...

Access to professional midwifery care is a basic reproductive right that women in the United States have long been denied. Today American midwives are growing in numbers and in or gan i za tion al and legal strength. Their excellent outcomes and women’s high levels of satisfaction with their care are placing increasing pressure on the health care system to more fully incorporate them, but the b...

The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights recently adopted General Comment No 2 to interpret provisions of Article 14 of the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights Women. The provisions relate to women's rights to fertility control, contraception, family planning, information and education, and abortion. The present article highlights the General Comment's potential to promote ...

a Médico, magister en Gestión de Políticas Públicas, ex ministro de salud. Citar como: Ugarte-Ubilluz O. Desarrollo y ejercicio de los derechos en salud sexual y reproductiva.