Dec 11 2012
Noting the recognition of International Human Rights Day on December 9, Purnima Mane, president and CEO of Pathfinder International, writes in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog, "[E]very person should be able to make decisions about her or his body," making reproductive rights a human rights issue. "From the London Summit on Family Planning supported by Melinda Gates, where thousands gathered to commit future investments in family planning, to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's strong advocacy to ensure U.S. leadership in global health that includes reproductive rights as human rights, to the work that's happening on the ground in myriad countries around the globe to provide contraception, improve maternal health, ensure HIV prevention and treatment, and much more -- progress is happening," Mane writes, noting some of the barriers and challenges that remain in "[e]stablishing reproductive rights as human rights for all" (12/9).
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 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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