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Abortion Policies and Reproductive Health around the World
Published in 2018
Source: Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, United Nations
This report presents information on changes in legal grounds for abortion and related reproductive health policies since around the time of the ICPD for 197 countries in the world, including all 193 Member States of the United Nations, 2 Observer States (the Holy See and the State of Palestine) and 2 non-member States (Cook Islands […]
Youth and Abortion: Key strategies and promising practices for increasing young women’s access to abortion services
Published in 2018
Source: IPPF
This guidance document, which is aimed at increasing young people’s access to high quality youth friendly abortion information, services and referral, is evidence-based. The recommendations draw on the experiences of clients, health professionals and technical experts at the national, regional and international levels of the Federation.
Abortion Worldwide 2017 – Uneven Progress and Unequal Access
Published in 2018
Source: The Guttmacher Institute
This report reviews whether the access to and safety of abortion have changed, and the extent to which the practice of abortion aligns with how abortion is permitted by law. In some settings, women may legally qualify for an abortion, but have no real access to safe services; in others, safe procedures may be widely […]
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 Universal Access to Sexual and Reproductive Rights – Indonesia (Indonesian Translation)
Published in 2018
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The current paper is the Indonesian translation of the Country Profile on Universal Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRR), which looks at the challenges and issues on rights to access to SRH services, including contraception, comprehensive sexuality education, and legality of abortion amidst the diverse cultural and geographical background of the archipelago country.
Mapping abortion policies, programmes and services in the WHO South-East Asia Region
Published in 2018
Source: World Health Organisation
This document maps the legal situation of abortion in the countries of the World Health Organization’s South-East Asia Region, namely Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timor-Leste. It also aims to describe the existing policies and guidelines regulating abortion service delivery as well as to […]
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 […]
Women’s Access to Safe Abortion in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Advancing Maternal Health, Gender Equality, and Reproductive Rights
Published in 2017
Source: Ipas
Advancing women’s access to safe and legal abortion is a priority for women’s reproductive health and rights, in accordance with the new SDGs focused on health and gender equality. This briefing paper presents the SDG goals and targets whose achievement depends on safe and legal abortion and recommends minimum indicators for measuring global progress on […]
ARROW for Change – SRHR in the Era of the SDGs
Published in 2017
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Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) opens the door for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) agenda to move forward on the global stage; in line with recent developments, this edition provides an up-to-date primer on universal access to Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) and universality of Sexual and Reproductive Rights (SRR); […]
A Follow-up Profile of Women Seeking Pregnancy Terminations in a Clinic in Urban Malaysia: 1998-2005
Published in 2017
Source: Jurnal Sains Kesihatan Malaysia
This is a follow-up study to assess the socio demographic profile of a sample of 28,605 women seeking pregnancy terminations at a private clinic in Penang over a seven year period as compared to an earlier study in 1995 of a sample of 23,986 women over a six and a half year period at the […]