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Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights as Charted by the IPPF
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The Right to
liberty and security which recognizes
that all persons must be free to enjoy and control their sexual
and reproductive life and no person should be subjected to forced
pregnancy, sterilization or abortion. |
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The Right to be free from torture and ill treatment
including the rights of children to be protected from sexual
exploitation and abuse and the rights of all people to protection
from rape, sexual assault, sexual abuse and sexual harassment. |
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The Right to the
benefits of scientific progress which includes
the recognition that all clients of sexual and reproductive health
services have the rights to access to new reproductive
technologies which are safe and acceptable. |
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The Right to privacy that all sexual and reproductive health services should be
confidential and all women have the choice to autonomous
reproductive services |
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The right to
choose whether or not to marry and to found and plan a family |
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The right to equality and to be free from all forms of discrimination
including in sexual and reproductive life |
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The right to
freedom of assembly and political participation
meaning above other things that all persons have the right to seek
to influence government to place a priority in sexual and
reproductive health and rights |
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The right to information and education as they relate to
sexual and reproductive health and to ensure the health and well
being of persons and families. |
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The right to health care and health protection, which
includes the rights of health care of clients to
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Information,
access, choice, safety, privacy
- Confidentiality,
dignity, comfort, continuity and opinion
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The right to freedom of thought, which includes
freedom from the restrictive interpretation of religious texts,
beliefs, philosophies and customs as tools to curtail freedom of
thought on sexual and reproductive health care and other issues. |
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The right to
decide whether or when to have children |
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The right to life
which means among other things no women’s life should be put at
risk or endangered by reason of pregnancy |
