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4.15 Reproductive Health Rights
Objectives
• To become aware of reproductive health rights
Target group
• Both men or women together or separately
• All ages
• All educational levels
• Urban and rural areas
Material
• This manual
Exercise
Step 1
• Ask the participants if they know what reproductive health means
• Briefly explain ‘reproductive health’ and the rights related to reproductive health
• Divide the group into small groups of maximum 5 persons
• Give each group an assignment (see below) related to reproductive health rights and ask them
to prepare a role play on the issue
• Let the groups show their role play in plenary
Assignments for the role plays
Give each group one of the following situations and ask them to make a short role play around that
situation. Of course you can change the situations according to the situation of the participants or
come up with completely new situations. Select different situations to make sure that you can
discuss the different issues related to reproductive health rights.
1. A boy and a girl who are in love. The boy is trying to convince the girl to sleep with him but she
does not want this (right to maintain freedom and body safety)
2. A girl of about 15 years old who asks her mother, a doctor or someone else information about
different methods for birth control but the person says that she does not need to know all those
things because she is still too young (right to receive information, right to have a private life)
3. A woman who will get married and wants to have information about birth control. She does not
get it because she is not married yet, although she plans to marry soon (right to receive
information, right to have a private life, right to have family planning)
4. A single woman who wants to have information about birth control methods. She does not get
it because she is not married (right to have a private life, right to receive information about
family planning methods)
5. A couple disagreeing about having a third child. They already have two children of 1 and 2
years old. The last pregnancy was not without danger for the woman (right to have family
planning, right to maintain freedom and body safety)
6. A mother who is complaining to her daughter because the daughter is already married for 5
years and still does not have a child (right to have family planning, right to have a private life)
7. An older relative complaining to a woman of around 30 years of age who is not married yet
and only thinks about her career (right to have a private life)
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