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country profile on universal access to sexual and reproductive rights: india (tamil translation)
Published in 2018
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India continues to be the second most populous country in the world with a population of 1210 million; 623.7 million males and 586.5 million females as on 1st March 2011. Unlike in previous decades, there has been a significant decline in population growth rate in the last decade. The decadal growth rate has declined from […]
Country Profile Universal Access to SRH – Indonesia (Indonesian Translation)
Published in 2018
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Indonesia is an archipelago of approximately 17,000 islands, with a total population of 239 million people (2010 census).The country is home to about 1,340 ethnicities with different views on gender and sexuality issues and varying degrees of access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), including relevant healthcare services. About 49.79% of the people […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
An Advocates Guide: Integrating Human Rights in Universal Access to Contraception
Published in 2017
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This guide, as the name suggests, is meant for use by advocates for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) at the country level. The guide uses the recommendations made to national governments in the publication “Ensuring human rights in the provision of contraceptive information and services: Guidance and recommendations” published by the World Health […]
commercial surrogacy: a contested terrain in the realm of rights and justice
Published in 2016
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This paper examines the phenomenon of surrogacy as an industry in India and provides an overview of its operations. An understanding of this industry will be strengthened through an analysis of the regulatory framework in India, and within the broader Asian context. The paper focuses on the way the ideology of family and patriarchal notions […]