The international target of universal access to reproductive health is vital to the success of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to the effective implementation of population, health, and development policies. Attaining sexual and reproductive health and rights for all requires an essential policy package, which originated at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and remains relevant today.

Document signed by the African Union Ministers of Health to outline actions that secure sexual and reproductive rights and health (SRRH) in Africa.  Rendered and signed at the special Session of the African Union, Conference of Ministers of Health in Maputo, Mozambique (September 18-22, 2006).

>>Available in PDF from WWHR's website

Summary: By Dr. Sherifa Zuhur (publishedby Women for Women's Human Rights-New Ways, February 2005). Examinesthe common aspects of criminal laws in the Middle East and North Africarelated to sexuality and provides a historical perspective on theamalgamation of tribal, religious, colonial laws and their impact onmodern codes. Providing a thematic comparative study of constructs ofhonor, adultery, honor crimes, rape, sexual abuse, abortion, maritalrape, homosexuality, sex work, FGM and similar issues, the articleexplores how human rights violations in the domain of sexuality arelegitimized by law in the region and how oppression of sexuality inperpetrated by the existing penal systems. The article is both a uniqueresource and a powerful advocacy tool for ongoing reform initiatives inthe region (76 pages).

>>Available in Word and PDF

>>Available in Word and PDF / Available in Portuguese and Spanish

Summary: September 2003 web feature summarizing IWHC's colleagues in Latin America's diverse efforts to expand access to safe abortion in Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina, and raise awareness around the public health crisis of unsafe abortion across Latin America and the Caribbean (6 pages).

>>Available in PDF from the WHO website.

>>Available in French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian

>>To order a copy of the guidance in Polish, please contact the Federation for Women and Family Planning (Poland) at federacja@federa.org.pl.