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Country Profile on Universal Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health: Nepal (Nepali Translation)
Published in 2018
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This is the Nepali translation of the Country Profile on Universal Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health: Nepal. For the English version, click here. Nepal is a land-locked country located at the foothills of the Himalayas. The country is bordered by India to the east, south, west, and China to the north. Nepal is rectangular […]
Country Profile on Universal Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health: Pakistan (Sindhi Translation)
Published in 2018
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Pakistan launched its family planning programme in mid-1950s. In 1990, the government launched a comprehensive Population Welfare Programme which became a major social action element in the provision of maternal and reproductive health services. Later, the government launched Family Planning and Primary Health Care programme (1994) and reached out to rural households through Lady Health […]
Country Profile on Universal Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health: China (Chinese)
Published in 2017
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China is the world’s most populous country with a total population of 1.354 billion people by the end of 2012. China’s population continues to increase steadily even as the population growth rate has reduced at 4.95 per 1,000 people in 2012 down from 11.21 per 1,000 people in 1994. Concurrent with China’s ever-increasing population is […]
Philippines Country Advocacy – Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE): The Way Forward
Published in 2017
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With various provisions and enabling laws and policies that exists in the Philippines in terms of comprehensive sexuality education (CSE), the country does seem to be on track to enable ‘gender mainstreaming’ policies, plans and programmes at all levels. The brief further addressed the challenges and gaps faced by the government by the capacities of […]
China Country Advocacy Brief – Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE): The Way Forward
Published in 2017
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China faces a somewhat unique problem, where their definition of youth (15 to 34 of age) is different than that of the United Nations (UN) (15 to 24). This causes a few problems when it comes to research on adolescent issues in the country, seeing how under the current definition of youth, they account for […]
Cambodia Country Advocacy Brief – Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE): The Way Forward
Published in 2017
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The Kingdom of Cambodia has a young and growing population, estimated to be 15.5 million in 2015. 43% of the population is below 19 years of age, and 30% of the population in 2016 is between the ages of 10 to 24. While fertility levels are declining in general, there are still relatively high rates […]
Bangladesh Country Advocacy Brief – Comprehensive Sexuality Education: The Way Forward
Published in 2017
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Bangladesh – the 8th most densely populated country in the world – has a population growth rate of 1.37%, TFR of 2.3, contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) of 62%, and adolescent birth rate of 113 per 1,000 women. The largest reproductive segment (15-24) who are adolescent and young, constitute 19% of the total population. This demographic […]
Call for Action to integrate sexual and reproductive health and rights for all into the education and health sector policies of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Published in 2017
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This Call for Action publication contains key data and statistics on Mongolia such as the quantification of gender inequality, work force participation, female representation in politics and decision-making, the MDGs implementation, and SRHR indicators. The publication also contains much of the targets and indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), means of implementation, financing methods […]
Myanmar/Burma Country Study on Advocating SRHR: Burmese Edition
Published in 2017
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Political developments in Myanmar/Burma prompted ARROW in 2013 to undertake a small-scale scoping study to re-evaluate and refine its advocacy strategies for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), and to strengthen partnerships for advocacy with civil society organisations (CSO) working on SRHR in the country. The study aimed to identify the status of and the […]
Understanding Catholic Fundamentalism in the Philippines: How conservative religious teachings on women, family and contraception are wielded to impede the Reproductive Health Law and other reproductive health policies
Published in 2017
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Philippines remains a Catholic state in practice despite being a secular state by proclamation; the Catholic Church has great power over Philippine politics and society in the past until the present, as manifested in the country’s moral values, way of life and behaviour in social and public activities. Catholic Fundamentalism in particular have opposed Sexual […]